The Matt Walsh Show - June 05, 2024


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


Episode Stats

Length

52 minutes

Words per Minute

177.01213

Word Count

9,210

Sentence Count

604

Misogynist Sentences

18

Hate Speech Sentences

30


Summary

Disney has released its gayest Star Wars show yet. They have apparently learned nothing from their string of failures over the past several years. Also, a DEI trainer has declared that the American flag itself is a symbol of hate and extremism. And a remote tribe in the Amazon finally gets an internet connection, and now the tribe is addicted to porn and social media. We ll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.


Transcript

00:00:00.100 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, Disney has released its gayest Star Wars show yet.
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
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.
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.
00:04:52.420 Not the gayest Star Wars.
00:04:53.940 It's pretty gay, let's be honest.
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.
00:05:08.780 Yeah.
00:05:09.200 Well, some nerds are very not gay and are very threatened by gay stuff.
00:05:12.480 Well, that's true.
00:05:13.160 But in my world, nerds are gay.
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.
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.
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.
00:05:54.660 Call old Star Wars characters gay and then giggle like schoolgirls.
00:05:58.300 They're excited that this new Star Wars show will be the gayest Star Wars show yet.
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
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.
00:06:45.660 But she's just angering as many fans as she possibly can.
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.
00:07:06.620 Quote, I think Leslie has struggled a little bit with it.
00:07:09.120 I think a lot of the women who step into Star Wars struggle with this a bit more.
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,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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,
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,
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.
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.
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
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.
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?
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,
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.
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
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?
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.
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.
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,
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.
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
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
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
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,
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
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.