The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1381 - Disney Churns Out Its 'Gayest' Star Wars Show Yet

00:00:00.100 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, Disney has released its gayest Star Wars show yet. 0.97

00:00:04.100 That's a quote.

00:00:04.720 They have apparently learned nothing from their string of failures over the past several years.

00:00:08.240 Also, a DEI trainer has declared that the American flag itself is a symbol of hate and extremism.

00:00:13.640 And a remote tribe in the Amazon finally gets an internet connection.

00:00:16.100 Now the tribe is addicted to porn and social media.

00:00:18.260 We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.

00:00:30.000 We'll be right back.

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00:01:24.620 It's no secret that Disney isn't doing well lately.

00:01:27.840 They just laid off nearly 15% of the workforce at Pixar, their movie studio that used to produce guaranteed hits.

00:01:33.500 But Pixar's recent films, Elemental and Lightyear, were bombs.

00:01:37.520 And the division hasn't turned a profit in more than two years.

00:01:40.420 People just didn't go for the strained interracial immigrant metaphor in Elemental or the same-sex kiss in Lightyear.

00:01:46.760 Or the kind of rehashed, stale vibe of both projects.

00:01:49.820 Additionally, Disney's much-touted fully immersive Star Wars hotel called the Galactic Star Cruiser shut down late last year after operating for less than two years.

00:01:59.480 Disney had spent hundreds of millions of dollars on the project, apparently on the theory that people cared so much about the Star Wars brand

00:02:04.440 that they'd be willing to spend thousands of dollars for the privilege of staying two nights in a windowless concrete building posing as a spaceship.

00:02:11.980 That didn't pan out.

00:02:12.900 Apparently, people aren't excited to stay in a hotel where the experience is seemingly designed to be as aggressively unpleasant as possible.

00:02:19.880 That same quarter, Disney's streaming service, Disney Plus, reported a loss of more than a million subscribers.

00:02:25.260 That's not even getting into Disney's decision to get involved in Florida politics on the side of activist teachers

00:02:30.800 who want to talk to kindergartners about gender identity and sexual orientation.

00:02:35.240 Faced with this brand collapse, Disney had two options.

00:02:38.700 One option was to retool their content to focus on entertainment and family values instead of activism,

00:02:44.040 which is what Disney used to do when it was a universally beloved and much more financially successful company.

00:02:49.480 They could get back to their roots, in other words.

00:02:51.760 And not in the sense of churning out more remakes, but in the sense of being a company that makes wholesome family films

00:02:57.080 that capture a real sense of wonder and imagination.

00:03:00.180 But the other option was to keep doing exactly what they've been doing and continue to shove the same agenda,

00:03:06.640 the equity, representation, LGBTQ approach that they've been pushing for years now.

00:03:12.240 Well, eight months ago, Disney CEO Bob Iger publicly pledged to pursue the first option.

00:03:16.900 He declared that Disney would refocus its efforts on entertainment, not political messaging.

00:03:20.740 That was the plan, or at least the plan that was shared with the public.

00:03:24.200 But that's not what has happened.

00:03:25.800 Disney, over the past eight months, has apparently decided to double down on agenda-driven content

00:03:30.320 to the point that they're now openly attacking their own fans.

00:03:33.640 It's a remarkable turn of events, and it's one that's worth discussing because this development is not unique to Disney.

00:03:39.600 And it suggests that wokeness, as we call it, may not be the best way to describe what we're seeing at Disney

00:03:45.900 and other major corporations like it.

00:03:48.380 That's part of what we're seeing, but there's something else going on here as well.

00:03:51.780 It looks a lot like corporate mediocrity run amok, the private sector version of what we see across the public sector bureaucracy.

00:04:00.140 Unimpressive people with impressive-sounding credentials who check the right demographic boxes 1.00

00:04:04.660 are taking the helm of businesses and products that they don't understand.

00:04:08.840 They've insinuated themselves into these companies like a cancer that's evidently impossible to remove.

00:04:14.680 And even when the company CEO publicly tells them one thing, they're free to do another.

00:04:18.820 Now, to get a better idea of what I mean, take a look at this interview from the other day

00:04:23.640 featuring Leslie Hedlund, the creator of the new Disney Star Wars show, The Acolyte.

00:04:29.760 Now, I don't want to prejudice you in any way, so I'll just play the clip with no further introduction.

00:04:35.540 This is the showrunner talking about her new show, Watch.

00:04:39.980 I want to ask you both, because this is, I would say, arguably the gayest Star Wars, I think, by a considerable margin. 1.00

00:04:47.600 And are you excited about that?

00:04:50.560 Are you bracing yourself?

00:04:51.720 Not the gayest Star Wars. 1.00

00:04:52.420 Not the gayest Star Wars. 1.00

00:04:53.940 It's pretty gay, let's be honest. 0.99

00:04:57.140 Leslie, are you...

00:04:58.320 How do you feel?

00:04:58.800 Am I gay?

00:04:59.520 Yes.

00:04:59.640 Well, no, I know you are gay, but I'm asking, are you excited about putting this, you know, this is going to be a talking point.

00:05:05.340 Is it going to be a talking point?

00:05:06.780 I'm sure some...

00:05:07.380 Because nerds are gay. 0.97

00:05:08.780 Yeah.

00:05:09.200 Well, some nerds are very not gay and are very threatened by gay stuff. 0.70

00:05:12.480 Well, that's true.

00:05:13.160 But in my world, nerds are gay. 0.55

00:05:15.020 Okay.

00:05:17.080 Was this the fun element of...

00:05:18.640 No, I don't think so.

00:05:20.180 And yet people have told me that it's the gayest Star Wars, and I, frankly...

00:05:24.180 You're offended?

00:05:25.960 Into it.

00:05:26.680 I think that Star Wars is so gay already. 1.00

00:05:31.280 Okay.

00:05:31.800 I mean, have you seen the fits?

00:05:34.440 We'd be like, look how gay this is, and then send each other a reference photo.

00:05:37.720 And are you telling me, with a straight face, that C-3PO is straight?

00:05:41.240 They're a couple.

00:05:42.360 That's what I think.

00:05:43.800 But this is more outward.

00:05:45.460 I think it's canon that R2-D2 is a lesbian. 0.55

00:05:50.060 So don't worry about the story or the plot or the characters.

00:05:52.620 So it's time for that.

00:05:53.300 Instead, just listen to these two women. 1.00

00:05:54.660 Call old Star Wars characters gay and then giggle like schoolgirls. 0.94

00:05:58.300 They're excited that this new Star Wars show will be the gayest Star Wars show yet. 1.00

00:06:03.040 Which is, in every way, the exact opposite of what the audience actually wants.

00:06:08.180 Nobody has watched the recent Star Wars films and shows and said to themselves,

00:06:16.580 you know, this would be better if only it was even gayer.

00:06:19.380 No one has thought that, except for apparently the people behind this show.

00:06:22.880 Now, the only thing you learn from that interview is that Leslie Hedlund is gay and has no respect 0.94

00:06:27.700 whatsoever for her audience or her own show.

00:06:30.640 This is how Disney is promoting the latest entry to franchise.

00:06:33.440 They spent $4 billion to buy a decade ago.

00:06:36.380 And that has a lot of fans wondering how exactly she was chosen for the role of showrunner.

00:06:41.220 If her role is to push some subversive woke ideology, she's not being very subversive about it. 0.99

00:06:45.660 But she's just angering as many fans as she possibly can. 1.00

00:06:49.920 And that's, you know, all this is.

00:06:51.640 And she's not the only CEO, the only one doing this.

00:06:53.960 The CEO of Lucasfilm, a woman named Kathleen Kennedy, just came out in defense of her showrunner.

00:06:59.140 Kennedy declared that if you're not a fan of how Leslie Hedlund is handling herself,

00:07:04.680 then you probably hate women. 0.93

00:07:06.620 Quote, I think Leslie has struggled a little bit with it. 0.53

00:07:09.120 I think a lot of the women who step into Star Wars struggle with this a bit more. 0.91

00:07:13.940 Because of the fan base being so male-dominated,

00:07:16.040 they sometimes get attacked in ways that can be quite personal.

00:07:18.800 My belief is that storytelling does need to be representative of all people.

00:07:23.160 That's an easy decision for me.

00:07:26.520 Yeah, she really said that.

00:07:27.880 Storytelling does need to be representative of all people,

00:07:32.000 says the CEO of Lucasfilm as she mocks her own fan base.

00:07:35.760 These people are so dumb.

00:07:37.860 They don't even understand the words coming out of their own mouth.

00:07:40.060 Is representative of all people?

00:07:41.880 Really?

00:07:42.900 Are they going to have 8 billion characters in this show?

00:07:45.560 One for each person on Earth?

00:07:48.020 How exactly does that work?

00:07:50.540 Is storytelling supposed to be representative of all people, whatever that means?

00:07:54.100 Or is it supposed to be representative of the creative, distinct, creative vision of the storyteller?

00:08:00.300 I was going to show some more clips of these women, 1.00

00:08:02.420 but it's honestly too painful to subject you to.

00:08:04.080 These are people who can't even communicate without descending into Valley Girl nonsense.

00:08:07.460 And they're putting together shows that they expect millions of people to watch.

00:08:11.700 Kathleen Kennedy was lucky enough to work with Steven Spielberg,

00:08:14.380 and Leslie Hedlund worked on rom-coms with titles like Sleeping With Other People.

00:08:18.580 So those are their credentials, and they're considered impressive in the industry, I guess.

00:08:23.020 So they get to continue butchering Star Wars.

00:08:24.800 By the way, The Acolyte was released this week.

00:08:26.900 I think it was released yesterday.

00:08:27.740 And as has become a new tradition for Star Wars films and shows,

00:08:33.220 it has a very high critic score, Rotten Tomatoes, like 88%,

00:08:36.620 but a failing grade of 45% from the audience.

00:08:41.120 That is the dynamic we always see now with these things.

00:08:44.480 Joel Berry, who apparently subjected himself to at least some of the show,

00:08:48.080 offered this review.

00:08:48.860 The Acolyte is a queer Marxist vandalization of the myth of Star Wars. 0.97

00:08:53.500 In The Acolyte, the Force is a metaphor for cultural hegemonic power.

00:08:57.040 The Jedi are a metaphor for cisgender white oppressors who hoard the power for themselves. 0.89

00:09:02.160 Yes, it really is that obnoxious and stupid.

00:09:05.420 The account Wall Street Silver offered this viewer warning.

00:09:08.040 Quote,

00:09:09.320 The Acolyte, Star Wars' new series streaming, is very woke.

00:09:12.120 Number one, main character has two mothers. 1.00

00:09:14.140 Number two, main Jedi characters are all black and Asian, no white men.

00:09:18.180 And number three, only speaking role for white men in first episode is prisoners on a prison ship.

00:09:24.380 So Disney has decided to right the ship by ramming it directly into another iceberg.

00:09:29.980 That's not to pick on The Acolyte too much, although it obviously deserves it. 1.00

00:09:34.120 Because of the fact that Disney is now pumping out Star Wars shows on an assembly line,

00:09:37.440 there's another one that I can mock as well.

00:09:39.320 It's called Tales of the Empire.

00:09:41.240 This one is apparently geared towards kids,

00:09:43.300 and I guess it features a non-binary Jedi, 0.60

00:09:45.580 based on how all the characters use they, them pronouns to refer to this corpse.

00:09:50.460 Watch this.

00:09:51.020 I think we've played this once before, but here it is again.

00:09:54.780 If you can get through it, here it is. Watch.

00:10:02.640 They're still alive.

00:10:04.720 We need to get them to the ship.

00:10:06.120 We can save them.

00:10:07.820 Forget it.

00:10:08.920 Let them die.

00:10:10.480 It's not worth the trouble.

00:10:16.280 They were about to surrender.

00:10:18.620 Irrelevant.

00:10:19.920 The Jedi are a threat to be eradicated wherever they are found. 0.98

00:10:24.840 Oh yeah, we did play that before, because I remember now.

00:10:28.500 That's the one where the bad guy, I guess it's a bad guy, kills someone,

00:10:34.700 but then still respects that person's pronouns after having murdered them.

00:10:40.720 So that's nice at least.

00:10:43.380 This is the result of Disney's big plan to focus on entertainment and not messaging.

00:10:48.020 We have non-binary Jedis and girl bosses making sure we have the gayest Star Wars ever. 1.00

00:10:54.420 And that's not all.

00:10:55.480 As Bloomberg recently reported, Disney is now banking on the upcoming film Inside Out 2 as the,

00:11:00.240 quote, key to restoring the magic.

00:11:01.680 They think that this film, a sequel to a movie from 2015,

00:11:03.680 is going to be a smash hit to the point that they're going to give it a 100-day run in theaters.

00:11:09.180 As Bloomberg reports, quote,

00:11:10.480 if families show up for Inside Out 2 in the kinds of numbers Pixar used to see,

00:11:14.320 it will reaffirm the studio's standing.

00:11:17.700 But if the movie fails, it will fuel concerns about the company's relevance.

00:11:21.220 And by the way, the whole article is kind of funny because it's all about how Disney,

00:11:27.180 they've come up with their brilliant strategy to get back on track.

00:11:33.420 And their brilliant strategy is to do more sequels and remakes.

00:11:36.840 That's the strategy.

00:11:37.780 And of course, anyone reads that, isn't that what you've been doing the whole time?

00:11:40.580 Isn't that the only thing you've done for 20 years now?

00:11:44.300 Now, what is Inside Out 2 going to be about?

00:11:46.640 It's hard to say because it's not out yet,

00:11:47.980 but after some Googling, I came across this headline from an outlet called Pride.com.

00:11:52.980 And here's their assessment based on the trailer.

00:11:55.200 Quote,

00:11:55.300 The long-awaited sequel to Disney and Pixar's Inside Out isn't hitting theaters until the summer,

00:11:58.960 but the official trailer dropped this week and it's looking a little gay.

00:12:02.560 Fans think Inside Out 2 is going to be gay as F.

00:12:08.100 Now, how brave is that?

00:12:09.460 Are they also going to, they're also going to, I guess, gayify Inside Out, or maybe they will, 0.95

00:12:15.200 which was kind of a middling Pixar entry in the first place.

00:12:17.980 Is that the direction they're going with it?

00:12:19.420 Who knows?

00:12:19.820 But based on the fact that they can't make anything that isn't gay anymore, 0.96

00:12:23.080 we can assume that the answer to that question is probably yes.

00:12:25.840 And all of this is very woke.

00:12:28.600 That's true.

00:12:29.480 It's also incredibly lame and stale and unimaginative.

00:12:33.040 And that would also be an apt descriptor for what Disney is doing with its theme parks.

00:12:36.580 As the writer Peachy Keenan documented on Twitter yesterday,

00:12:40.080 Disney is currently re-theming their famous Splash Mountain ride because the ride was racist for some reason.

00:12:47.160 And they're creating a politically correct version of the new ride,

00:12:51.120 so they're doing this even with the rides now.

00:12:53.180 Keenan watched all the Disney's promotional materials and she put together a comparison of the old ride with the new one.

00:12:57.340 Basically, the new ride won't have Princess Tiana in a nice dress with a handsome prince or even a storyline of any kind,

00:13:03.420 I guess, because that's too, you know, archaic and patriarchal.

00:13:08.960 She wrote, quote,

00:13:09.600 That's the direction they're going with their theme parks.

00:13:27.480 Sounds thrilling.

00:13:29.220 I was trying to figure out why all this is happening at Disney.

00:13:32.220 Why they're sabotaging their own brand despite what the CEO said they do.

00:13:37.160 And it's clear that whatever's going on here, it's not unique to Disney.

00:13:41.680 Consider what just happened at Cracker Barrel.

00:13:43.460 Their CEO is a woman named Julie Fels Massino.

00:13:46.840 She took the job last year.

00:13:48.100 Previously, she worked at Taco Bell, Mattel, Sprinkles, Cupcakes, Starbucks, and Macy's.

00:13:52.780 And, of course, the clientele of every single one of those companies is different from the typical Cracker Barrel clientele,

00:13:58.860 which skews older.

00:13:59.920 But in general, her old jobs were mostly in the food industry,

00:14:03.140 just like the Acolyte showrunners' jobs were mostly in the entertainment industry.

00:14:06.020 And that's good enough.

00:14:07.100 So Julie Massino got the job. 0.65

00:14:08.800 Unfortunately, it's not working out too well.

00:14:11.000 Massino just announced on a call with investors that the company is, quote,

00:14:14.320 just not as relevant as we once were.

00:14:17.380 Because, you know, when you think of Cracker Barrel, you think of something that you want,

00:14:19.820 you think of relevant.

00:14:21.300 That's why Cracker Barrel's customers go there is because it's so relevant.

00:14:26.680 But now it's not as relevant.

00:14:28.200 So they need to make it relevant again, she said.

00:14:30.600 And to ignite growth, she said it's necessary to revitalize the brand.

00:14:35.780 She then outlined a bunch of generic initiatives like rewards programs that every other restaurant offers.

00:14:40.760 And her announcement, because people know what that really means,

00:14:45.380 when you have one of these, you know, corporate, one of these mediocre corporate people saying

00:14:53.240 that we're going to revitalize the brand and make it relevant again.

00:14:56.620 Everyone knows what that means.

00:14:57.700 Everyone knows where that goes.

00:14:58.660 And because of that, the stock went down 11% immediately, putting it down nearly 50% in the past year.

00:15:05.040 And why wouldn't the stock drop?

00:15:06.160 The new CEO clearly views Cracker Barrel as completely indistinguishable from every other place that she's ever worked.

00:15:10.740 If anything, she probably hates the brand.

00:15:13.380 And we can assume she hates the brand's primarily blue-collar Christian clientele.

00:15:18.620 We saw something similar with that Bud Light vice president, Alyssa Heinerscheid,

00:15:23.800 when she dismissed her own customers as fratty and said Bud Light needed to rebrand.

00:15:28.940 And that's when they brought on Dylan Mulvaney.

00:15:30.560 And we all know how that turned out.

00:15:33.100 So Alyssa Heinerscheid, like Julie Massino, had great credentials.

00:15:37.040 She went to Harvard and Wharton, had worked at big companies like Wisterine and General Mills.

00:15:41.740 But she didn't understand Bud Light or care about the customers.

00:15:45.240 In fact, she hated the customers and was very open about that.

00:15:48.320 And so she destroyed the brand.

00:15:51.280 Now the same thing is probably unfolding at Cracker Barrel.

00:15:54.780 And it's a very slow-motion, preventable collapse.

00:15:58.200 On social media, someone using the handle Pine Barren summed up the problem better than I've seen elsewhere.

00:16:03.380 Here's what he wrote describing an alternative to Cracker Barrel's current CEO.

00:16:07.740 He said, quote,

00:16:08.320 Imagine a CEO who actually loved Midwestern and Southern culture.

00:16:12.180 What about pop-up concerts and endorsements by Zach Bryan and Morgan Wallen?

00:16:15.880 Why not lean into its heritage as an after-church spot and create programs for church groups,

00:16:20.480 including discounts and shuttle bus services?

00:16:22.920 Grassroots Evangelical Support has made huge hits of movies like The Sound of Freedom

00:16:26.540 and restaurant chains like Chick-fil-A.

00:16:29.000 Imagine a public company with a leadership that didn't hate the blue-collar evangelical population.

00:16:34.380 There are so many obvious partnership opportunities with brands like NASCAR or Country Music Stars.

00:16:38.320 I don't think this is wokeness or girl bossery per se, but rather typical corporate mediocrity. 0.94

00:16:43.520 They hired a generic MBA type who built a career on the massive brand equity of Yum! Brands and Starbucks.

00:16:48.720 Just a cog in the corporate machine.

00:16:50.920 I hope we'll see titans of industry again, but this is not how we'll get them.

00:16:55.360 That does a fairly good job of putting into perspective everything we've been seeing over the past few years

00:16:59.940 at Disney, Bud Light, so many other major corporations.

00:17:03.500 And I think it's a more apt explanation than simply chalking all this decline up to wokeness.

00:17:08.000 This trend of hiring interchangeable CEOs with resumes and trendy demographics

00:17:12.720 has been an unmitigated disaster because it overlooks

00:17:16.240 what the leader of every company should have at a bare minimum,

00:17:19.880 which is an understanding of their product and a genuine respect for their customers.

00:17:23.900 Without that, you get shows like The Acolyte.

00:17:28.220 You get Dylan Mulvaney and Angry Customers, and your stock collapses along with your brand.

00:17:33.720 All the combined efforts of feminism and diversity and equity and wokeness 1.00

00:17:37.700 have brought us to this point, all of those things together.

00:17:42.260 But it's bureaucracy and inertia that keeps it alive, long after everyone's tired of it.

00:17:46.600 And that inertia is the reason why, whether you're going to a restaurant or a movie theater,

00:17:53.040 you're now guaranteed a product that's as mediocre as the people who created it.

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00:18:56.380 So the creepiest elected official in the country, Scott Wiener in California,

00:19:01.580 had some thoughts to share at San Francisco's Pride kickoff event.

00:19:07.640 I don't even know why they have a Pride kickoff.

00:19:09.440 Like, every day is Pride Day.

00:19:10.640 Every month is Pride Month in San Francisco.

00:19:12.780 But they had some big event.

00:19:13.960 Scott Wiener was there.

00:19:15.360 And here's what he had to say.

00:19:17.040 Listen.

00:19:17.140 We are always there for these kids.

00:19:21.040 These are our kids.

00:19:22.060 And we need to make sure that we are lifting them up and giving them a path to success.

00:19:26.840 So we are working very hard to make that happen.

00:19:29.400 And we know that we have school boards in particular in some very conservative areas

00:19:34.260 that are demonizing and attacking our LGBTQ youth in ways that are so, so dangerous.

00:19:42.660 And so about a week ago, our caucus, the 12 of us, we said not on our watch.

00:19:49.420 And we introduced legislation to ban these forced outing policies that some school boards are starting to adopt.

00:20:02.620 Because we know that for all of us, a lot of experience in this room in terms of coming out,

00:20:10.540 in terms of when, if, how someone comes out to their parents,

00:20:15.020 that is our decision and no one else's damn business.

00:20:19.000 And we're going to make that clear in the law of the state of California.

00:20:28.420 But as we fight all the nasty people out there who are trying to harm us,

00:20:32.440 and we're going to beat them, and we're going to win,

00:20:34.560 let's celebrate.

00:20:36.340 Let's have just a festive and uplifting month.

00:20:39.180 I am so excited about it.

00:20:40.540 Happy Pride, everyone.

00:20:42.320 Okay, so there's Wiener. 0.91

00:20:43.980 So many red flags on what he just said.

00:20:46.480 You know, the guy's a walking red flag, of course.

00:20:48.220 But to begin with, he says, these are our kids.

00:20:51.660 That's the way he looks at it.

00:20:53.300 Of course, they aren't.

00:20:54.860 You don't have any kids, Wiener.

00:20:56.840 These are not your kids.

00:20:58.840 These kids do not belong to you or the government.

00:21:02.320 And we see again here the basic question.

00:21:05.820 This is the thing that lies at the center of all these debates.

00:21:08.760 It's the fundamental question, which is, whose kids are they?

00:21:13.540 You know, who has primary authority over a child?

00:21:16.440 Who is primarily responsible?

00:21:19.160 Who's the first line of defense?

00:21:20.520 Who does the buck stop with? 0.51

00:21:22.340 And there are basically two possible answers.

00:21:26.900 Well, there are three possible answers.

00:21:28.500 You know, there's the right answer.

00:21:30.260 You could say that the answer is God.

00:21:32.480 And you'd be right about that.

00:21:33.900 So, you know, maybe we need to be more specific.

00:21:37.940 Who's the primary earthly authority over a child?

00:21:41.160 Who on earth is first and most responsible for a child?

00:21:43.700 And once we've narrowed it down that way, then we're left with only two possibilities.

00:21:48.820 And it's either going to be the parent or the state.

00:21:51.480 And the Scott Wieners of the world say that it's the state.

00:21:54.560 And that explains why later in the clip, he describes the forced outing of kids.

00:22:02.320 Well, what does that mean?

00:22:03.660 What do you mean by forced outing?

00:22:06.040 Because if you didn't know any better and you heard something like that,

00:22:09.280 you would think that, okay, well, kids who are supposedly gay or trans, allegedly,

00:22:17.080 that these kids are being compelled by the state to declare themselves as such.

00:22:22.940 That's what forced outing sounds like.

00:22:25.940 Is there some kind of mind reading technology being used to identify kids

00:22:29.320 who have these kinds of feelings and self-perceptions, supposedly?

00:22:34.500 And then it's declared, like, is that what that means?

00:22:37.280 No, it doesn't mean any of that.

00:22:39.280 It simply means, what Scott Wiener refers to as forced outing,

00:22:43.920 it simply means that kids who have already declared themselves as supposedly LGBT in school,

00:22:52.500 kids who have made this fact about themselves known to not only their peers,

00:22:57.680 but also to teachers and school administrators,

00:23:00.620 that in those cases, the parents should also know.

00:23:05.740 So it's not a question of, quote, unquote, outing.

00:23:07.980 It's a question of whether or not the school should actively keep secrets from the parents.

00:23:15.260 Should the parents be in the loop about their own kid or not?

00:23:20.360 That's the question.

00:23:24.200 Should the schools have knowledge about a child's mental state

00:23:27.800 that they don't share with the parents?

00:23:31.300 Should the schools know more about a child than the parents do?

00:23:38.020 That's what we're talking about.

00:23:39.220 And any sane person will say no to that.

00:23:42.320 And you say no because that's, again, a complete inversion of sort of the chain of custody of a child.

00:23:52.760 And the way that it's supposed to work is the parent is responsible for the child, 0.74

00:23:59.000 entrusts a limited, supposed to be a limited amount of authority to the schools for a limited period of time

00:24:04.900 while they're in school, but the parent is still the one who's responsible.

00:24:10.200 What they want to do is flip that on its head.

00:24:11.880 And any time this comes up, I do, and I've made this point,

00:24:16.400 I think you, in fact, cannot make this point enough,

00:24:19.320 that when it comes to this question specifically,

00:24:23.160 should the schools tell parents everything about a child?

00:24:28.820 And specifically, if the child is identifying allegedly as LGBT in some way,

00:24:37.260 should the schools tell?

00:24:39.480 Well, always remember that the same people who answer no to that question,

00:24:44.400 people who say, no, the schools shouldn't because that's forced outing

00:24:46.780 and it's up to the kids to decide what they share with the parents.

00:24:50.320 Those people, Scott Wiener himself,

00:24:52.980 they would be the first to tell us that LGBT, quote-unquote LGBT kids are a high-risk group,

00:25:04.660 that they are a much higher risk for suicide and for suicide attempts.

00:25:10.520 They'll tell us that.

00:25:12.480 They will eagerly tell us that.

00:25:15.140 And that's true.

00:25:18.540 That is absolutely true.

00:25:19.860 We don't deny that.

00:25:20.520 So, what they're saying is,

00:25:23.920 if a school knows that a child is in a high-risk group for suicide,

00:25:31.080 that the school should not share that information with the parents.

00:25:37.700 The school should actively conceal from the parents

00:25:41.940 that their child is in a high-risk suicide group.

00:25:45.300 And if the schools do hide that information

00:25:50.160 and then that child goes on to tragically take his own life,

00:25:55.680 are the schools held responsible for that?

00:25:58.740 You knew this child was in a high-risk group.

00:26:00.520 You didn't tell the parents.

00:26:02.800 And then one tragic day that the child is at home

00:26:06.140 and does something drastic,

00:26:08.080 whose fault is that?

00:26:09.140 Well, the schools carry a significant amount of the blame.

00:26:15.380 And this is something that rational people understand,

00:26:19.200 but rational people, as Wiener says, are nasty.

00:26:21.660 Those are, he says at the end,

00:26:22.600 those are the nasty people. 0.63

00:26:25.600 We're the nasty, you know,

00:26:26.780 the nasty kinds of parents

00:26:28.480 who dare to insist

00:26:30.300 that we are the parents of our children

00:26:33.520 and we want to know what's going on with them.

00:26:35.640 And if you have information about their mental state

00:26:37.860 and about what they're going through,

00:26:39.660 we need to know that

00:26:40.620 because they're our kids and we care.

00:26:41.880 We love them.

00:26:42.760 We love them.

00:26:43.360 You don't.

00:26:44.960 You're the school.

00:26:45.620 You're the state.

00:26:46.300 Scott Wiener,

00:26:47.480 we care for our children.

00:26:50.060 You don't.

00:26:53.100 Okay.

00:26:53.640 I have to say, you know,

00:26:54.840 I'm used to being proven right,

00:26:56.180 but it doesn't usually happen this quickly.

00:26:57.660 So last week we talked about the left's decision

00:26:59.320 to declare suddenly

00:27:00.340 that the Appeal to Heaven flag,

00:27:02.820 which has existed since the nation's founding,

00:27:04.560 since before the nation's founding, in fact,

00:27:06.860 declared that it's controversial

00:27:08.360 and right-wing after,

00:27:11.140 you know, and racist and everything

00:27:13.140 after Justice Alito flew that flag

00:27:15.560 outside of his vacation home.

00:27:16.940 And the reason why it's a controversial flag,

00:27:19.900 they say now,

00:27:20.780 is because supposedly there were also some people

00:27:23.380 on January 6th who had that same flag.

00:27:27.660 And the San Francisco City Hall

00:27:29.460 then even removed the flag from its building

00:27:32.360 where it had been flying for 50 years.

00:27:34.920 Because all of a sudden now,

00:27:36.300 it's a problem.

00:27:36.900 It's a controversial flag.

00:27:38.780 Yet another patriotic American symbol

00:27:40.580 is now verboten.

00:27:42.480 And I said last week

00:27:44.060 that we are rapidly approaching the point

00:27:45.560 where the American flag itself

00:27:47.060 will be deemed racist.

00:27:49.960 And I don't just mean,

00:27:51.200 of course,

00:27:51.560 I don't just mean like a few left-wing wackos 1.00

00:27:53.780 saying that.

00:27:54.460 It'll be a mainstream thing.

00:27:55.820 Our institutions will push

00:27:57.840 to change the American flag

00:27:59.420 in order to rid it

00:28:01.100 of its racist and controversial past.

00:28:03.840 That's going to happen

00:28:05.840 where the American flag

00:28:08.240 will be deemed a hate symbol, basically.

00:28:11.480 Well, here's the Fox News headline

00:28:12.580 dated June 4th.

00:28:14.800 Headline,

00:28:16.560 School District DEI trainer

00:28:18.160 says American flag becoming hate symbol.

00:28:21.640 Employees resisting CRT should be fired.

00:28:23.600 Reading the article,

00:28:26.200 a diversity, equity, and inclusion trainer

00:28:27.960 spreading critical race theory

00:28:29.360 in the public education system

00:28:30.420 said that resistant employees

00:28:32.680 who disagree with the concepts

00:28:33.900 should be fired,

00:28:34.860 according to her published work.

00:28:37.040 Epoch Education CEO,

00:28:38.440 Dr. Nancy Dome,

00:28:39.960 called employees

00:28:40.540 who don't accept notions

00:28:41.680 included in CRT,

00:28:43.180 such as the existence

00:28:43.940 of white privilege,

00:28:45.780 a poison to culture and climate,

00:28:47.280 and criticized equality

00:28:48.340 in favor of equity.

00:28:50.140 The DEI firm's YouTube videos

00:28:51.380 meanwhile espouse CRT's tenets

00:28:53.320 and indicate that

00:28:54.660 colorblindness isn't sufficient.

00:28:56.940 Epoch calls itself

00:28:57.680 a national leader in DEI

00:28:59.240 and indicates that

00:28:59.840 at least five public school districts

00:29:01.100 ranging from nearly 40,000 students

00:29:02.700 to over 70,000 each

00:29:04.000 have hired the firm

00:29:04.700 to bring in an equity agenda.

00:29:06.700 In a video posted

00:29:07.480 on Epoch's Vimeo account,

00:29:09.200 Dome said that she believed

00:29:10.160 the American flag

00:29:10.780 was becoming a symbol

00:29:11.660 of hate and extremism.

00:29:13.440 The video became publicly unavailable

00:29:15.460 after Fox News

00:29:16.280 sent a request for comment.

00:29:18.180 Okay, so they deleted

00:29:18.980 the video after Fox

00:29:19.920 asked about it.

00:29:21.880 Apparently,

00:29:23.280 so I guess Fox

00:29:24.040 asked about this video

00:29:28.000 before they didn't save it.

00:29:29.920 They did not save the video

00:29:31.320 or pull it and save it

00:29:33.380 before asking

00:29:34.700 this organization about it.

00:29:37.380 So the organization

00:29:38.680 didn't respond with any comment,

00:29:40.240 but they just took the video down.

00:29:42.120 But we know the gist,

00:29:43.080 which is that the American flag

00:29:44.040 is a symbol of hate

00:29:44.820 and extremism and racism,

00:29:45.740 and it was inevitable

00:29:47.320 that they would come

00:29:47.920 to this conclusion.

00:29:48.980 And we know that this is

00:29:50.340 what the left wants to do.

00:29:51.200 They want to purge this country

00:29:52.280 of its own history,

00:29:53.760 sever any tie that we have

00:29:55.060 to our own past,

00:29:55.920 to our history,

00:29:56.600 to our tradition.

00:29:58.880 Now, why do they want to do that? 0.96

00:30:01.160 Well, because history

00:30:02.220 and tradition are,

00:30:03.360 you know,

00:30:05.620 our anchor points.

00:30:07.480 These are sources of identity.

00:30:09.720 These are lessons

00:30:11.100 and guidance.

00:30:12.620 Our history,

00:30:13.700 our tradition,

00:30:14.260 it tells us who we are.

00:30:15.220 But the DEI,

00:30:17.720 CRT,

00:30:18.580 communist types

00:30:19.260 like Dome,

00:30:20.980 they see all that

00:30:22.760 as their own job.

00:30:23.940 Like,

00:30:24.080 it's her job

00:30:24.980 to tell us

00:30:25.680 what our identity

00:30:26.800 is

00:30:27.720 and who we are,

00:30:29.500 to anchor us,

00:30:30.260 to guide us.

00:30:31.560 That's what she's supposed to do. 1.00

00:30:32.420 That's what DEI

00:30:33.020 is supposed to do.

00:30:34.340 So we have to be emptied

00:30:35.700 of any previous

00:30:36.660 sense of identity

00:30:37.620 that we have,

00:30:38.100 removed from any

00:30:39.420 sources of attachment,

00:30:41.920 separated from any

00:30:42.800 points of orientation,

00:30:43.840 so that we can be

00:30:46.120 remade and reoriented.

00:30:48.800 And this is,

00:30:50.380 this is how cults operate.

00:30:53.020 I know we,

00:30:53.700 this,

00:30:54.400 the term cult

00:30:55.960 is thrown around a lot

00:30:57.420 and probably overused

00:30:59.020 quite a bit,

00:30:59.660 so it's lost

00:31:00.520 a lot of its meaning,

00:31:02.020 a lot of its sting.

00:31:03.000 But in this case,

00:31:05.020 DEI is a cult.

00:31:06.860 Leftism in general

00:31:07.820 is a giant cult.

00:31:09.580 At least it operates

00:31:10.360 like one.

00:31:10.840 At least it has,

00:31:11.420 it has borrowed

00:31:12.280 many of the methods

00:31:13.460 of cults.

00:31:15.040 And,

00:31:15.600 this is the first thing

00:31:17.920 that the cult does.

00:31:19.060 It severs you

00:31:19.780 from your family.

00:31:24.080 This is,

00:31:25.020 you know,

00:31:25.480 isolate,

00:31:27.200 get rid of any

00:31:27.800 attachment that you have

00:31:28.720 and isolate you.

00:31:29.620 That's the first thing

00:31:30.500 that's part of the,

00:31:31.220 that's cult brainwashing

00:31:32.640 101.

00:31:33.640 That is step one.

00:31:36.140 We just heard about that

00:31:37.000 in the first headline.

00:31:38.840 Oh, we don't want

00:31:39.420 to out the kids.

00:31:40.240 What does that really mean?

00:31:42.280 We want to,

00:31:42.620 we want to isolate them

00:31:44.500 from their parents.

00:31:45.520 We know something

00:31:46.500 about the child

00:31:48.360 that the parent

00:31:49.320 doesn't know.

00:31:50.960 And so that allows us

00:31:52.000 to form an attachment

00:31:52.860 to the child

00:31:54.040 and isolate the child

00:31:56.020 away from the parents.

00:31:58.420 Okay?

00:31:58.920 This is also how,

00:31:59.940 this is also grooming.

00:32:00.920 I mean,

00:32:01.080 it's all the same.

00:32:01.740 This is all,

00:32:02.120 it's all the same,

00:32:02.860 it's all the same

00:32:03.640 kind of process.

00:32:06.740 So they do that,

00:32:08.360 strip you of your

00:32:09.240 sense of identity,

00:32:10.820 render you helpless,

00:32:12.180 confused,

00:32:12.760 bewildered,

00:32:13.400 isolated,

00:32:14.080 feeling vulnerable.

00:32:15.300 And then they come in

00:32:16.180 and they say,

00:32:16.700 well,

00:32:16.880 come this way.

00:32:17.760 I'll,

00:32:18.680 you're scared now.

00:32:20.520 I'll show you the way.

00:32:22.640 And there's always

00:32:23.360 the underlying threat too,

00:32:24.560 of course,

00:32:24.860 which is why we hear

00:32:25.500 in this case

00:32:26.000 that employees

00:32:27.460 who resist the DEI

00:32:28.880 indoctrination

00:32:29.460 have to be fired.

00:32:31.320 Oh,

00:32:31.420 but you should talk

00:32:31.920 to them first.

00:32:32.440 You should be kind

00:32:33.120 and generous

00:32:33.560 and try to explain

00:32:35.280 everything to them.

00:32:36.980 But if they resist,

00:32:38.420 then,

00:32:38.640 then,

00:32:39.280 you know,

00:32:39.560 just get rid of them. 0.51

00:32:40.540 That's the carrot

00:32:41.260 and stick approach.

00:32:42.180 The cult says,

00:32:42.860 well,

00:32:42.960 you're part of the family.

00:32:43.740 We love you.

00:32:44.900 We're your real family now.

00:32:46.800 But then it's made clear

00:32:47.780 that if you try

00:32:48.400 to leave the family,

00:32:50.240 if you don't get

00:32:50.680 with the program,

00:32:51.220 you'll be destroyed,

00:32:52.260 which is how DEI works.

00:32:54.680 And

00:32:54.960 it's,

00:32:57.020 it's easy to lose sight

00:32:58.560 of,

00:32:58.820 of just how bizarre

00:33:00.120 all of this is.

00:33:01.000 And I don't just mean

00:33:02.920 because DEI is crazy.

00:33:04.760 I don't just mean

00:33:05.480 that the ideas

00:33:06.140 that they're promoting

00:33:06.920 are crazy,

00:33:07.540 though they are,

00:33:08.060 of course.

00:33:09.360 I mean,

00:33:09.680 the idea that adopting

00:33:10.740 a set of beliefs

00:33:11.700 that,

00:33:13.740 that have nothing to do

00:33:14.520 with the work

00:33:14.980 you're doing at a company

00:33:15.860 or an organization

00:33:17.160 should be a requirement

00:33:18.880 for your continued employment

00:33:20.380 at that company

00:33:21.940 or with that organization.

00:33:24.540 Like,

00:33:24.880 it was never like this before.

00:33:26.260 In the past,

00:33:26.740 you were required

00:33:27.260 to do your job

00:33:27.900 and have a good attitude

00:33:28.560 about your job

00:33:29.180 and at least act

00:33:30.440 as though you value

00:33:31.280 the job

00:33:31.820 and the company

00:33:32.240 that you work for.

00:33:33.540 And now the whole idea

00:33:34.360 with DEI

00:33:34.840 is that you need

00:33:35.400 to accept

00:33:35.880 an entire belief system

00:33:37.080 that,

00:33:37.420 on top of being insane,

00:33:38.700 also has nothing

00:33:39.540 at all to do

00:33:40.000 with the job

00:33:40.460 you're getting paid to do.

00:33:42.100 But this is the other facet

00:33:43.380 of how cults operate.

00:33:44.520 You know,

00:33:44.660 in a cult,

00:33:46.400 everything has to do

00:33:49.140 with the cult.

00:33:49.640 There is nothing,

00:33:51.620 the idea that there

00:33:52.240 could be anything

00:33:52.720 in life

00:33:53.440 that is not related

00:33:54.320 is anathema.

00:33:55.960 You can't,

00:33:56.460 that doesn't exist.

00:33:57.320 Everything is related to it.

00:33:58.400 And that's obviously

00:34:01.140 how they see it here.

00:34:03.780 Wall Street Journal

00:34:04.680 with a report here

00:34:07.940 that's getting

00:34:08.640 a lot of attention

00:34:09.260 in political circles

00:34:10.280 for some reason.

00:34:12.180 Here's the headline.

00:34:14.280 Behind closed doors,

00:34:16.000 Biden shows signs

00:34:17.120 of slipping.

00:34:19.380 Participants in meetings

00:34:20.160 said the 81-year-old

00:34:20.960 president performed

00:34:21.660 poorly at times.

00:34:22.960 The White House

00:34:23.340 said Biden is sharp

00:34:24.240 and his critics

00:34:24.720 are playing

00:34:25.240 partisan politics.

00:34:26.260 There's a lengthy article

00:34:28.940 all about how Joe Biden,

00:34:31.560 I don't know

00:34:31.860 if you heard this or not,

00:34:32.720 I don't know

00:34:32.920 if you noticed or not,

00:34:34.380 but Joe Biden supposedly

00:34:36.500 is,

00:34:37.180 they're claiming

00:34:38.860 that Joe Biden

00:34:39.520 is losing a step or two.

00:34:41.080 That's what they're saying

00:34:41.660 in the article.

00:34:43.720 Reading a couple

00:34:44.360 of the examples,

00:34:45.220 it begins,

00:34:45.700 when President Biden

00:34:46.420 met with congressional leaders

00:34:47.600 in the West Wing

00:34:48.260 in January

00:34:48.800 to negotiate

00:34:49.440 a Ukraine funding deal,

00:34:51.300 he spoke so softly

00:34:52.280 at times

00:34:52.660 that some participants

00:34:53.280 struggled to hear him,

00:34:54.360 according to five people

00:34:55.280 familiar with the meeting.

00:34:56.740 He read from notes

00:34:57.600 to make obvious points,

00:34:58.760 paused for extended periods,

00:34:59.740 and sometimes closed his eyes

00:35:01.020 for so long

00:35:01.780 that some in the room

00:35:03.600 wondered whether

00:35:04.160 he had tuned out

00:35:05.040 or really fallen asleep

00:35:07.360 is what it would have looked like.

00:35:09.940 In a February

00:35:12.100 one-on-one chat

00:35:13.020 in the Oval Office

00:35:13.600 with House Speaker

00:35:14.220 Mike Johnson,

00:35:15.040 the president said

00:35:15.680 a recent policy change

00:35:16.920 by his administration

00:35:17.600 that jeopardizes

00:35:18.420 some big energy products

00:35:19.560 was just a study,

00:35:21.260 according to six people

00:35:22.040 told at the time

00:35:22.620 about what Johnson

00:35:23.300 said had happened.

00:35:24.580 Johnson worried

00:35:25.140 the president's memory

00:35:25.920 had slipped

00:35:26.380 about the details

00:35:27.040 of his own policy.

00:35:28.100 Last year,

00:35:28.440 when Biden was negotiating

00:35:29.240 with House Republicans

00:35:29.980 to lift the debt ceiling,

00:35:32.040 his demeanor

00:35:32.640 and command of the details

00:35:33.580 seemed to shift

00:35:34.340 from one day to the next,

00:35:35.560 according to then-House Speaker

00:35:36.840 Kevin McCarthy

00:35:37.480 and two others

00:35:38.220 familiar with the talks.

00:35:39.660 On some days,

00:35:40.240 he had loose

00:35:40.920 and spontaneous exchanges

00:35:41.940 with Republicans,

00:35:42.720 and on others,

00:35:43.240 he mumbled

00:35:43.640 and appeared to rely on notes.

00:35:46.340 McCarthy said

00:35:46.800 in an interview,

00:35:47.240 I used to meet with him

00:35:47.940 when he was vice president.

00:35:48.740 I'd go to his house.

00:35:49.540 He's not the same person.

00:35:51.260 White House officials,

00:35:51.980 though,

00:35:52.820 dismissed many of the accounts

00:35:54.000 from those who have met

00:35:54.680 with the president

00:35:55.100 or been briefed

00:35:55.780 by those meetings

00:35:56.320 as motivated

00:35:56.820 by partisan politics.

00:35:59.420 White House spokesman

00:36:00.360 Andrew Bates said,

00:36:01.840 Congressional Republicans,

00:36:02.720 foreign leaders,

00:36:03.240 and nonpartisan

00:36:03.760 national security experts

00:36:04.600 have made clear

00:36:05.460 in their own words

00:36:06.000 that President Biden

00:36:06.520 is a savvy

00:36:07.160 and effective leader

00:36:07.840 who has a deep record

00:36:09.580 of legislative accomplishment.

00:36:11.520 Now, in 2024,

00:36:12.460 House Republicans

00:36:12.880 are making false claims

00:36:14.000 as a political tactic

00:36:14.960 that flatly contradict

00:36:16.160 previous statements

00:36:16.920 made by themselves

00:36:17.760 and their colleagues.

00:36:18.480 in fairness

00:36:23.100 to the White House

00:36:23.780 spokespeople,

00:36:24.940 there is no credible

00:36:27.920 denial you can issue here

00:36:29.400 because we can all see it,

00:36:30.540 but that is the least

00:36:32.720 credible denial

00:36:33.540 that you could have

00:36:34.220 possibly come up with.

00:36:35.840 What they're saying

00:36:36.820 is that,

00:36:37.340 well, a lot of these Republicans,

00:36:38.660 they've said in the past

00:36:39.920 that Joe Biden

00:36:41.100 was sharp

00:36:42.840 and really with it

00:36:44.880 and look at all

00:36:45.920 of his accomplishments.

00:36:46.620 Well, yeah,

00:36:48.120 they said that in the past.

00:36:49.740 That's the point.

00:36:50.760 They're not saying it now

00:36:51.880 because in the past

00:36:53.040 that might have been the case,

00:36:54.940 but now it's not anymore.

00:36:57.260 So that's the point.

00:36:58.480 If someone is saying,

00:36:59.580 oh, that guy is,

00:37:00.380 you know,

00:37:01.280 that guy is senile, 0.75

00:37:02.360 it doesn't make any sense

00:37:03.700 for you to object

00:37:04.480 and say,

00:37:05.440 oh, yeah,

00:37:05.840 well, 15 years ago

00:37:06.820 you didn't say he was senile.

00:37:08.520 Yeah, that's how senility works.

00:37:10.820 You know,

00:37:11.380 when you're 81,

00:37:12.940 you're senile. 0.88

00:37:13.720 When you were 65,

00:37:14.980 you probably weren't.

00:37:17.380 That is,

00:37:18.180 so that is,

00:37:18.680 that is legitimately

00:37:19.960 their excuse

00:37:20.940 that it's,

00:37:23.600 you have no credibility

00:37:24.900 if you called Joe Biden

00:37:26.320 senile now

00:37:27.220 if two decades ago

00:37:29.280 you were praising

00:37:31.340 his mental acuity.

00:37:35.500 So this is the breaking news.

00:37:38.120 Joe Biden is old and senile,

00:37:39.800 which of course we know.

00:37:42.480 This piece actually undersells it,

00:37:44.160 first of all,

00:37:44.540 by claiming that Biden

00:37:45.480 is only slipping

00:37:46.180 behind closed doors.

00:37:47.880 No,

00:37:48.260 it's happening very much

00:37:48.960 in front of the doors.

00:37:50.620 I mean,

00:37:50.780 he's,

00:37:51.300 and he's literally slipping

00:37:52.840 in front of all of us

00:37:53.860 and then slipping

00:37:54.380 every other sense of the word too

00:37:55.500 in front of everybody's eyes.

00:37:59.020 If he gets another term,

00:38:00.160 he'll be a full-on vegetable

00:38:01.120 or dead by the end of it

00:38:02.400 and everybody knows that.

00:38:03.260 There's no question about it.

00:38:04.280 It's like 100% understood

00:38:05.600 by everybody.

00:38:08.040 And of course it is.

00:38:08.980 He's 81 years old

00:38:09.960 and he's a human being.

00:38:12.120 He is a mortal creature

00:38:14.100 living on earth.

00:38:16.260 So mortality is real.

00:38:18.020 It exists.

00:38:18.740 It's a reality

00:38:19.340 we all must contend with.

00:38:21.760 And I've been saying this

00:38:23.120 ever since Biden

00:38:24.540 first ran for president.

00:38:25.840 And at the time,

00:38:27.320 it's maybe easy

00:38:28.380 to forget this now,

00:38:29.220 but you go back

00:38:30.280 like five years ago

00:38:31.120 and I was making

00:38:34.420 the same point

00:38:34.980 about this guy's just like,

00:38:35.840 he's way too old.

00:38:36.800 He's,

00:38:37.280 on top of everything,

00:38:38.380 like there are many other reasons

00:38:39.220 to not vote for him,

00:38:39.940 obviously.

00:38:40.380 And if he was 60 years old

00:38:42.340 and a young whippersnapper

00:38:44.300 by comparison anyway,

00:38:46.180 I still wouldn't vote for him

00:38:47.600 and I still wouldn't support him.

00:38:48.580 But you really don't even need

00:38:51.240 to get to any of that other stuff

00:38:52.600 because like he's just,

00:38:53.940 he's senile.

00:38:55.120 So none of it,

00:38:56.060 the rest of it even matters.

00:38:57.700 How is this not

00:38:58.420 the most relevant fact about him?

00:39:00.820 And I can remember five years,

00:39:02.640 even though now,

00:39:03.500 like everyone agrees

00:39:04.520 on this point,

00:39:05.960 five years ago,

00:39:06.640 that was not the case.

00:39:07.560 And even many conservatives,

00:39:10.040 I can remember having this argument

00:39:12.360 with even some conservatives

00:39:13.840 who were not going to vote for him,

00:39:16.200 but said that,

00:39:18.480 oh,

00:39:18.720 I'm not going to vote for him,

00:39:19.660 but age is not the reason.

00:39:20.980 Age isn't a factor.

00:39:22.580 Age is just a number.

00:39:25.200 Right?

00:39:25.700 Well,

00:39:26.060 I have a grandmother

00:39:27.420 who's 92 years old

00:39:28.640 and she's still sharp as a tack.

00:39:30.360 Why are you being ageist?

00:39:33.900 I heard that a million times.

00:39:34.920 We all heard that,

00:39:35.660 right?

00:39:37.740 But age is not just a number.

00:39:39.220 It is a real physical reality.

00:39:42.160 Everybody declines mentally

00:39:43.780 and physically

00:39:44.340 as they get older.

00:39:46.780 And once you hit 80,

00:39:49.400 that decline speeds up exponentially

00:39:52.340 for everyone.

00:39:54.980 I mean,

00:39:55.560 everyone,

00:39:56.180 like everyone ever

00:39:57.260 who's ever lived.

00:39:58.960 Even if you go on to live

00:40:00.040 until you're 120,

00:40:01.820 the decline still,

00:40:03.400 I mean,

00:40:03.740 you're declining

00:40:04.360 for decades even before that,

00:40:06.640 physically,

00:40:07.200 certainly.

00:40:07.960 But then once 80 is kind of a,

00:40:09.760 it's a,

00:40:10.180 that's when dementia,

00:40:11.620 the dementia rates skyrocket

00:40:13.420 and your chance of dementia

00:40:15.060 goes up by,

00:40:16.000 you know,

00:40:16.200 multiple percentage points

00:40:17.600 every year once you hit 80

00:40:20.460 and every year after that.

00:40:21.960 Your chance of living to 90,

00:40:24.360 first of all,

00:40:24.920 living to 90,

00:40:25.540 but also living to 90

00:40:26.360 and still having use of your mind

00:40:28.340 is very,

00:40:29.860 very,

00:40:30.080 very small.

00:40:30.540 Some people do it,

00:40:31.540 very small.

00:40:33.400 And that's just,

00:40:35.900 so of course,

00:40:38.340 that's one of the things

00:40:38.980 that makes all this

00:40:39.520 so frustrating

00:40:40.100 is that it was,

00:40:40.820 it was totally,

00:40:42.220 like it was always going

00:40:43.440 to end this way.

00:40:47.000 And it might not even end.

00:40:49.260 This might,

00:40:49.740 this guy might get another term 0.60

00:40:50.680 in office

00:40:51.000 when he's 81 years old.

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00:41:28.200 Many decades ago,

00:41:35.700 as the legend goes,

00:41:36.560 a shaman

00:41:37.160 in the remote

00:41:37.740 2000-member Maribou tribe

00:41:40.740 in the Amazon rainforest

00:41:42.180 had a vision.

00:41:43.600 He foretold 0.87

00:41:44.180 that someday

00:41:44.680 there would be

00:41:45.140 a mysterious device

00:41:46.120 that people could hold

00:41:46.920 in the palm of their hands

00:41:47.920 and use to interact

00:41:48.720 with the rest of the world

00:41:49.480 in an instant.

00:41:50.660 And supposedly,

00:41:51.200 according to the prophecy,

00:41:52.660 this device would initially

00:41:53.920 appear to be a net positive

00:41:55.100 for society,

00:41:55.740 but eventually,

00:41:56.680 it would lead to chaos

00:41:57.480 and ultimately war.

00:41:58.840 Now this dark prophecy

00:41:59.940 was recounted this week

00:42:01.860 in a lengthy article

00:42:02.740 in the New York Times.

00:42:03.700 And even though

00:42:04.200 it sounds a bit like

00:42:04.920 the shaman just got high

00:42:06.140 and described a palm pilot

00:42:07.300 that he saw in a magazine

00:42:08.120 somewhere,

00:42:09.060 his warning is presented

00:42:10.480 to the story

00:42:10.900 as a really haunting prediction.

00:42:12.460 And that's because

00:42:12.980 last September,

00:42:14.520 for the first time

00:42:15.040 in their history,

00:42:16.020 the Maribou people

00:42:17.760 were finally connected

00:42:18.760 to the internet.

00:42:19.980 And while there's no war yet,

00:42:21.500 things are not going

00:42:22.560 according to plan.

00:42:23.620 The process of getting

00:42:24.860 this village online

00:42:25.620 began two years ago

00:42:26.600 when the government

00:42:27.160 of Brazil approved

00:42:28.020 the use of the Starlink

00:42:29.220 service in the country.

00:42:30.200 Starlink is a subsidiary

00:42:31.260 of Elon Musk's company

00:42:32.280 SpaceX,

00:42:33.480 and it provides

00:42:33.920 broadband quality internet

00:42:35.100 via satellite.

00:42:36.580 Shortly after the approval,

00:42:37.860 one of the leaders

00:42:38.380 of the Maribou tribe

00:42:39.740 started soliciting donations

00:42:41.240 to acquire Starlink equipment

00:42:42.740 after the villagers

00:42:43.540 had expressed interest.

00:42:44.520 And eventually,

00:42:45.400 with the help

00:42:45.720 of an American entrepreneur

00:42:46.560 named Allison Renault,

00:42:48.340 the technology was installed.

00:42:50.040 Here's what that

00:42:50.680 installation looked like.

00:42:51.940 Watch.

00:42:52.140 Temos o prazer

00:42:54.260 de mostrar a vocês

00:42:55.520 essa história

00:42:56.380 cheia de desafios

00:42:57.820 e esperança.

00:42:59.320 Realizamos a maior ação

00:43:00.820 de conectividade

00:43:01.640 da Amazônia

00:43:02.540 em setembro de 2023,

00:43:04.980 conectando 20 aldeias Marubo

00:43:07.220 em uma das áreas

00:43:08.320 mais remotas

00:43:09.620 da Amazônia.

00:43:10.320 And if you're listening

00:43:12.700 to the audio podcast,

00:43:13.640 I'm sure you can understand

00:43:14.320 everything that was

00:43:14.840 just said there.

00:43:16.020 As you can see,

00:43:16.820 the Maribou people

00:43:17.560 aren't anywhere near

00:43:18.420 as primitive as some

00:43:19.140 of the totally uncontacted

00:43:20.500 tribes that still exist

00:43:21.420 in South America.

00:43:22.020 They have clothes

00:43:22.700 and tables

00:43:23.180 and glasses

00:43:24.600 and all that.

00:43:25.640 In fact,

00:43:25.900 some of them already

00:43:26.320 had phones,

00:43:26.840 but still pretty primitive.

00:43:28.400 But until September,

00:43:29.440 they haven't had access

00:43:30.520 to the internet.

00:43:31.160 They didn't have

00:43:31.640 the tiny glowing device

00:43:33.200 to connect to a limitless

00:43:34.460 supply of content,

00:43:35.420 and now they do,

00:43:36.740 for better or worse.

00:43:38.080 And mostly,

00:43:38.720 as it turns out,

00:43:39.580 worse.

00:43:40.320 There have been

00:43:40.920 thousands of articles

00:43:41.580 and academic papers

00:43:42.360 written about the effects

00:43:43.260 of the internet

00:43:43.680 on people's brains

00:43:44.440 and behaviors.

00:43:45.520 I've talked about

00:43:46.080 some of the findings before.

00:43:47.140 For example,

00:43:47.580 the fact that depression

00:43:48.360 spiked as soon as

00:43:49.320 the majority of kids

00:43:50.020 in the country

00:43:50.460 began owning smartphones

00:43:51.600 all the way back

00:43:52.040 in 2012.

00:43:53.040 But a lot of the analysis

00:43:54.420 so far has relied

00:43:55.240 on correlation.

00:43:56.160 People who support

00:43:57.860 giving smartphones

00:43:58.540 to children

00:43:58.960 can always respond

00:43:59.740 by pointing to

00:44:00.340 a million other variables

00:44:01.320 that might be affecting

00:44:02.620 the mental state

00:44:03.280 of children.

00:44:03.820 They can say,

00:44:04.780 you know,

00:44:04.920 the economy got worse,

00:44:06.240 they can point to

00:44:07.100 other cultural shifts,

00:44:08.020 et cetera,

00:44:08.580 and so on.

00:44:09.000 But none of those

00:44:11.060 alternative explanations

00:44:11.880 apply to this remote

00:44:13.120 Amazon village.

00:44:14.280 The arrival of Starlink

00:44:15.400 and Maribou

00:44:16.000 allows us to pinpoint

00:44:18.000 precisely how a society

00:44:19.460 might be affected

00:44:20.340 by the internet

00:44:21.360 because in this tribe,

00:44:23.600 they're pretty much

00:44:24.380 controlling for every

00:44:25.220 other variable

00:44:25.740 at the moment.

00:44:26.360 So what changes

00:44:27.900 can we observe?

00:44:28.640 It's a very interesting

00:44:30.340 anthropological sort of

00:44:32.080 study that can be done here.

00:44:34.720 Well, here's the New York

00:44:35.720 Post headline

00:44:36.300 to give you some idea.

00:44:37.420 Quote,

00:44:38.560 remote Amazon tribe

00:44:39.640 finally connects

00:44:40.200 to the internet

00:44:40.640 only to wind up

00:44:41.740 hooked on porn

00:44:42.580 and social media.

00:44:44.200 As one villager

00:44:44.780 told the Times,

00:44:45.440 quote,

00:44:45.820 when it arrived,

00:44:46.460 everybody was happy,

00:44:47.140 but now things

00:44:47.900 have gotten worse.

00:44:48.980 Young people have 1.00

00:44:49.640 gotten lazy

00:44:50.300 because of the internet.

00:44:51.100 They're learning the ways

00:44:51.980 of the white people.

00:44:53.480 Then the villager added

00:44:54.700 with impeccable

00:44:55.460 comedic timing,

00:44:56.140 by the way,

00:44:56.980 but please don't take

00:44:57.860 our internet away.

00:44:59.900 That's how you know

00:45:00.620 they're fully bought in.

00:45:01.860 It's how you know

00:45:02.380 this tribe is now living

00:45:03.380 in the internet age

00:45:04.300 officially.

00:45:06.320 For one thing,

00:45:07.040 there's the jab

00:45:07.520 at white people,

00:45:08.180 so they've already

00:45:08.540 picked up on that.

00:45:11.000 But then also

00:45:11.860 there's this attitude

00:45:12.680 that the internet

00:45:13.480 is terrible

00:45:14.260 and it's destroying us

00:45:15.300 and we hate it, 0.53

00:45:16.520 but don't take it away.

00:45:17.460 We need it.

00:45:19.220 The Times reports

00:45:19.860 that in the village,

00:45:21.580 common sites now include,

00:45:22.580 quote,

00:45:23.640 teenagers glued to phones,

00:45:25.060 group chats full of gossip,

00:45:26.420 addictive social networks,

00:45:27.640 online strangers,

00:45:28.660 violent video games,

00:45:29.540 scams,

00:45:30.000 misinformation,

00:45:30.700 and minors

00:45:31.120 watching pornography.

00:45:32.940 Here's what the Times

00:45:33.520 reporter saw

00:45:34.240 when he arrived.

00:45:35.240 Watch.

00:45:36.500 I've been reporting

00:45:37.520 on the arrival

00:45:38.300 of high-speed

00:45:39.500 Starlink internet

00:45:40.440 in remote indigenous villages

00:45:42.420 in the Amazon rainforest.

00:45:43.900 Myself and our photographer

00:45:45.680 Victor Moriyama,

00:45:46.760 we ended up hiking

00:45:47.920 in total about 50 miles

00:45:49.720 in order to reach

00:45:50.660 villages of the Marubo people.

00:45:52.580 which are an indigenous tribe

00:45:54.140 that has lived

00:45:54.960 for hundreds of years,

00:45:57.040 if not longer,

00:45:57.720 in one of the most isolated stretches

00:45:59.520 of the Amazon rainforest.

00:46:01.320 One of the striking things for me

00:46:02.960 was to see this contrast

00:46:04.680 between this old traditional way of life

00:46:07.740 that the Marubos have had

00:46:08.780 for many, many, many years

00:46:10.300 and this very new way of life

00:46:14.640 that looks far more familiar

00:46:16.620 to me, frankly.

00:46:18.540 And that meant, you know,

00:46:19.580 seeing people hunched over

00:46:21.440 on their phones,

00:46:22.880 typing away,

00:46:23.820 sending voice notes,

00:46:25.020 watching, you know,

00:46:25.900 video clips.

00:46:26.640 The internet was a huge hit

00:46:28.560 and people were on it

00:46:29.920 all the time.

00:46:30.740 So much that it became

00:46:31.820 a problem for the hunting

00:46:33.020 and the farming

00:46:33.960 that are necessary

00:46:34.660 for their way of life.

00:46:35.840 And so what the Marubo leaders did

00:46:37.720 is nowadays,

00:46:39.040 in almost all of the villages,

00:46:40.200 the internet is only on

00:46:41.700 for several hours in the morning

00:46:42.920 and several hours in the evening

00:46:44.480 and then all day Sunday.

00:46:46.600 So it's pretty striking imagery.

00:46:48.060 You have people

00:46:48.460 in the middle of nowhere

00:46:49.300 who have never had

00:46:50.080 internet access before

00:46:51.160 and in just a few months,

00:46:53.740 the village now looks

00:46:54.400 like an airport terminal.

00:46:55.700 Everyone's just staring

00:46:56.520 at a screen.

00:46:57.860 So they're desperately trying

00:46:58.880 to limit the number of hours

00:46:59.860 people can access this

00:47:00.760 because it's getting

00:47:01.260 to be a problem.

00:47:02.220 One village leader

00:47:02.880 named Alfredo Marubo

00:47:05.400 reported that, quote,

00:47:07.000 everyone is so connected

00:47:07.860 that sometimes they don't even

00:47:08.800 talk to their own family.

00:47:10.660 He added that young men

00:47:11.460 are becoming more, quote,

00:47:12.480 sexually aggressive,

00:47:13.480 which is notable

00:47:13.980 because the tribe's

00:47:14.720 pre-internet culture

00:47:15.520 was chaste

00:47:16.320 and didn't permit

00:47:17.780 kissing in public,

00:47:18.560 which would be quite uncommon

00:47:19.600 for these tribal cultures,

00:47:20.600 by the way.

00:47:20.900 Many of them are not chaste at all,

00:47:22.560 but apparently this one was.

00:47:24.020 That's all changed now.

00:47:25.680 They have access to pornography

00:47:26.800 for less than a year

00:47:27.780 and already it's changing

00:47:28.580 how boys and girls

00:47:29.300 are interacting.

00:47:30.700 Alfredo says that kids

00:47:31.940 are sharing pornography

00:47:32.880 in group chats

00:47:33.520 and that he's worried

00:47:34.260 that they're going to start

00:47:34.860 mimicking what they see online.

00:47:36.200 Meanwhile, another villager

00:47:37.260 named Tamase Marubo,

00:47:39.240 no relation to Alfredo,

00:47:40.200 this village just hasn't

00:47:41.080 invented last names yet,

00:47:42.800 that's complaining

00:47:43.320 that many young people

00:47:44.620 now just want to spend

00:47:45.780 the whole afternoon

00:47:46.400 on their phones.

00:47:48.280 No, they're just like us.

00:47:49.960 On the more positive

00:47:50.560 side of things,

00:47:51.100 someone named

00:47:51.580 Inoke Marubo

00:47:53.460 reports that technology

00:47:54.480 has already saved lives,

00:47:55.620 particularly because it now

00:47:56.540 is much easier for villagers

00:47:57.500 to request medical attention

00:47:58.740 when they get bitten by snakes

00:48:00.220 and that sort of thing.

00:48:01.280 At the same time,

00:48:01.940 Inuko pointed out

00:48:02.600 that productivity

00:48:03.400 in the village has plummeted,

00:48:04.460 It changed the routine

00:48:06.040 so much that it was detrimental.

00:48:07.440 In the village,

00:48:07.860 if you don't hunt,

00:48:08.540 fish, and plant,

00:48:09.200 you don't eat.

00:48:10.740 That might be why

00:48:11.240 some young people

00:48:11.820 in the village now

00:48:12.360 have ambitions of leaving

00:48:13.320 as quickly as they can.

00:48:14.220 For example,

00:48:15.020 the Times states

00:48:15.480 that one 15-year-old girl

00:48:16.540 wants to travel the world

00:48:17.540 and visit places

00:48:18.260 she can see online.

00:48:19.020 Another teenager says

00:48:19.780 that she wants

00:48:20.060 to become a dentist now.

00:48:21.960 You can't blame them

00:48:22.740 for wanting to leave

00:48:23.440 the mud huts.

00:48:23.940 I certainly would

00:48:24.620 if I was them,

00:48:25.180 but the internet

00:48:25.600 has ushered in

00:48:27.600 this sudden

00:48:28.420 cataclysmic collapse

00:48:29.700 of their culture

00:48:31.300 and their way of life

00:48:31.980 as the tribe

00:48:32.460 becomes assimilated

00:48:33.360 into the digital age.

00:48:35.680 Now, of course,

00:48:36.040 the village elders

00:48:36.760 don't approve of any of this

00:48:37.780 because if enough

00:48:38.560 young people leave 0.96

00:48:39.760 and if they're not hunting

00:48:42.200 and doing the things

00:48:42.880 they need to do,

00:48:43.240 then the village will die out.

00:48:44.200 So there's a lot of tension

00:48:45.560 right now in the village

00:48:46.280 about Starlink

00:48:47.100 and how it will be used

00:48:47.960 going forward.

00:48:49.120 If nothing else,

00:48:49.600 this is a real live experiment

00:48:52.180 that proves a few things

00:48:53.340 that I've been saying

00:48:54.260 for a very long time.

00:48:55.100 Many people have been saying.

00:48:55.860 First of all,

00:48:56.960 it's clear evidence

00:48:57.700 as if we needed it

00:48:58.640 that the internet

00:49:00.160 does indeed drastically

00:49:01.420 change human behavior

00:49:02.500 and it has a particularly

00:49:03.520 significant effect

00:49:04.340 on young people.

00:49:05.120 Second,

00:49:05.340 the arrival of Starlink

00:49:06.240 in this village

00:49:06.740 proves that the change

00:49:08.000 happens very quickly.

00:49:09.640 It doesn't take long

00:49:10.640 for people to become

00:49:11.220 dependent on the internet

00:49:12.480 to the point of neglecting

00:49:13.540 their responsibilities

00:49:14.120 and relationships.

00:49:15.320 It just takes a few weeks.

00:49:16.400 In fact,

00:49:16.620 you can observe this

00:49:17.980 on a much smaller scale

00:49:19.440 in your own families.

00:49:21.120 Many parents have observed it.

00:49:23.800 When you finally decide

00:49:25.700 to give the phone

00:49:27.520 or whatever the device,

00:49:29.080 let your children

00:49:29.900 have a device of that kind,

00:49:31.120 whether it's an iPad

00:49:31.700 or a phone,

00:49:33.180 every parent has observed

00:49:35.620 that within like 30 seconds

00:49:37.340 the kids are addicted to it.

00:49:40.820 And immediately,

00:49:42.560 it changes their behavior

00:49:43.840 and everything.

00:49:45.600 That's why I said

00:49:46.100 earlier this year,

00:49:47.020 as I said earlier this year,

00:49:47.960 the best way to prevent

00:49:48.800 your child from being harmed

00:49:49.680 by a smartphone

00:49:50.120 is to keep smartphones

00:49:50.920 away from them

00:49:51.600 because at the most

00:49:53.320 fundamental level,

00:49:55.740 this puts kind of

00:49:56.780 the catch-22 on display.

00:49:58.200 that the internet

00:49:59.860 will connect you

00:50:00.600 to the world.

00:50:01.160 It'll open up opportunities.

00:50:03.000 It'll give you a chance

00:50:04.000 to see things

00:50:04.700 you would never see otherwise.

00:50:06.900 But this does not come free.

00:50:11.140 And I'm not talking

00:50:11.720 about the cost

00:50:12.320 that you pay

00:50:12.840 to your internet service provider

00:50:14.320 or whatever.

00:50:15.300 The real cost

00:50:16.220 is much deeper.

00:50:16.920 The internet will give you

00:50:18.060 those things,

00:50:18.720 which are good things,

00:50:19.940 no doubt,

00:50:20.980 but it demands

00:50:22.080 something in return.

00:50:23.020 Namely,

00:50:23.340 it demands the reordering

00:50:24.700 and restructuring

00:50:25.780 of your community

00:50:26.740 and culture

00:50:27.360 and your life.

00:50:29.260 There is no society

00:50:30.660 that I'm aware of

00:50:32.080 that has managed

00:50:33.400 to simply have the internet

00:50:34.900 as a useful tool

00:50:36.320 and communication device.

00:50:38.320 Every society

00:50:39.000 with the internet,

00:50:39.620 which is almost all of them

00:50:40.540 at this point,

00:50:41.840 and will soon be

00:50:42.640 literally all of them,

00:50:44.600 every society

00:50:45.180 with the internet

00:50:45.760 in that way

00:50:46.240 has become a society

00:50:47.140 centered around the internet,

00:50:48.820 changed by it,

00:50:49.720 defined by it.

00:50:51.420 It becomes

00:50:51.820 the focal point of life

00:50:52.900 and the primary lens

00:50:53.880 through which people

00:50:54.440 encounter the world

00:50:55.280 and each other.

00:50:57.320 Life with the internet

00:50:58.440 is life on the internet.

00:51:00.280 There's no way to,

00:51:02.800 there's no distinction.

00:51:05.500 And that ultimately

00:51:06.580 is a diminished life.

00:51:07.880 It's a less authentic,

00:51:08.940 less beautiful,

00:51:09.880 less real,

00:51:11.460 less vibrant life.

00:51:13.840 The internet

00:51:14.280 is a net negative

00:51:15.100 for mankind.

00:51:15.860 I'm certainly

00:51:16.220 convinced of that

00:51:17.420 at this point.

00:51:18.440 And I understand

00:51:19.180 the irony of me

00:51:20.080 saying that

00:51:20.700 on the internet

00:51:21.460 as a guy

00:51:22.060 who makes his living here.

00:51:23.040 I'm fully aware

00:51:23.660 of the contradiction,

00:51:24.500 but my own

00:51:25.740 paradoxical situation aside,

00:51:27.920 this new evidence

00:51:28.580 from a remote tribe

00:51:29.320 in the Amazon

00:51:29.720 makes the profound

00:51:30.640 and life-altering effects

00:51:31.620 of the internet

00:51:32.040 very clear.

00:51:33.460 That's why anyone

00:51:33.980 who has doubted

00:51:34.580 those effects

00:51:35.020 is today

00:51:35.800 canceled.

00:51:38.220 That'll do it

00:51:38.520 for the show today.

00:51:38.960 Thanks for watching.

00:51:39.480 Thanks for listening.

00:51:40.140 Talk to you tomorrow.

00:51:41.140 Have a great day.

00:51:42.380 Godspeed.

00:51:42.700 We'll see you tomorrow.

00:51:43.520 We'll see you tomorrow.

00:51:44.020 Bye-bye.

00:51:47.200 Bye-bye.

00:51:47.760 Bye-bye.

00:51:48.180 Bye-bye.

00:51:48.940 Bye-bye.

00:51:49.660 Bye-bye.

00:51:49.720 Bye-bye.

00:51:50.560 Bye-bye.

00:51:54.500 Bye-bye.

00:51:55.240 Bye-bye.

00:51:55.660 Bye-bye.

The Matt Walsh Show - June 05, 2024

Ep. 1381 - Disney Churns Out Its 'Gayest' Star Wars Show Yet

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