Ep. 1420 - The Most Awkward And Unintentionally Hilarious Moment In The History Of The Olympics
Episode Stats
Length
1 hour and 1 minute
Words per Minute
174.8606
Summary
There were a lot of cringy moments at this year s Olympics, but none more excruciating and hilarious than the woken Australian PhD student who somehow made it into the breakdancing competition despite having no idea how to breakdance. Also, J.D. Vance runs the gauntlet of Sunday interview shows and puts on a masterful display, while MSNBC tries to explain why Tim Walls is a great guy, rather than a creep for putting tampons in the boys' bathroom, and Joe Rogan gets canceled again, but this time by some influencers on the right. What did he do to provoke their wrath? We ll talk about all that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.
Transcript
00:00:00.000
Today on the Matt Wall Show, there were a lot of cringy moments at this year's Olympics,
00:00:03.400
but none more excruciating and hilarious than the woke Australian PhD student who somehow made it
00:00:07.960
into the breakdancing competition despite having no idea how to breakdance. The story is very funny,
00:00:12.740
but also instructive. We'll talk about it. Also, J.D. Vance runs the gauntlet of Sunday
00:00:16.640
interview shows and puts on a masterful display. MSNBC tries to explain why Tim Walls is a great
00:00:21.800
guy rather than a weird creep for putting tampons in the boys' bathroom, and Joe Rogan gets canceled
00:00:27.200
again, but this time by some influencers on the right. What did he do to provoke their wrath?
00:00:32.280
We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
00:00:57.200
Being a husband, father, and host of my own show means life never slows down. Imagine trying to
00:01:04.700
eat 31 different fruits and vegetables every day. Sounds pretty time-consuming, and sometimes I just
00:01:10.680
want to eat an egg, sausage, McMuffin, and other foods. But with Balance of Nature, Fruits and Veggies,
00:01:15.400
there's never been a more convenient dietary supplement to ensure you get a wide variety of
00:01:19.680
fruits and vegetables every day with 31 different whole fruits and vegetable ingredients. Balance of
00:01:24.400
Nature takes fruits and vegetables, they freeze-dry them, turn them into a powder, and then put them
00:01:28.660
in a capsule. You take your fruit and veggie capsules every day, and then your body knows what to do with
00:01:33.000
them. Go to balanceofnature.com, use promo code Walsh for 35% off your first order as a preferred
00:01:37.280
customer, plus get a free bottle of fiber and spice. That's balanceofnature.com, promo code Walsh.
00:01:43.880
You know, the point of the Olympics, going back to ancient times, was to celebrate greatness. Now,
00:01:49.340
there were always cheaters. The winner of the marathon of the 1904 Olympics was disqualified for
00:01:54.160
getting in a car during the event, for example. But they were generally dealt with pretty quickly.
00:01:59.080
Fraud was not rewarded, or at least it wasn't rewarded openly and deliberately by the people
00:02:03.120
running the show. And by the way, this is neither here nor there, but the guy who eventually won the
00:02:07.760
marathon at the 1904 Olympics after the other guy who took a car was disqualified almost died at the
00:02:12.680
finish line because his trainers had given him a treatment that included brandy, raw eggs, and a poison
00:02:17.900
used in pesticides. So it was a different time. Now, these days, the Olympics aren't really any less
00:02:24.120
bizarre, but they are cringier. Between the degeneracy at the opening ceremony of this
00:02:28.880
year's Olympics, the convicted child rapist playing volleyball, the two men violently beating women in
00:02:34.540
boxing competitions, these Olympics were fairly disastrous. Indeed, it's safe to say that greatness
00:02:41.020
is no longer even the point of the Olympics. After all, a culture that rewards mediocrity
00:02:45.840
cannot tolerate a celebration of excellence. So instead, you are instructed again and again to watch
00:02:51.580
losers and pretend they're successful. Humiliation is the point.
00:02:57.220
There was maybe no clearer illustration of this phenomenon at the Paris Olympics than the sad spectacle
00:03:02.340
of 36-year-old Australian breakdancer Rachel Gunn, who uses the stage name Ray Gunn.
00:03:08.580
She's allegedly an award-winning athlete, having been named the sports star of the year at something called
00:03:13.560
the Pedestrian Television Awards. As it turns out, pedestrian would be a generous way of describing
00:03:18.680
Ray Gunn's performance. Ray Gunn's also a university lecturer who holds a PhD in cultural studies from
00:03:23.720
a university in Sydney, which she earned after writing a dissertation titled
00:03:27.540
De-Territorializing Gender in Sydney's Breakdancing Scene, A B-Girl's Experience of B-Boying.
00:03:34.200
More on that in a minute. It's every bit as mind-numbing as you would expect.
00:03:38.040
Because breakdancing, for some reason, is an official Olympic event, for now at least,
00:03:41.520
Gunn saw an opportunity to put all of her academic work into practice. She somehow performed well
00:03:48.700
enough at the Oceania Breakdance Qualifying Tournament in order to compete in Paris. She
00:03:53.800
scored zero points for her routine because despite making it to the Olympics as a breakdancer,
00:04:00.180
the one little practical problem here is that she doesn't know how to breakdance.
00:04:04.160
So here's one of the clips that I can show you because the IOC hasn't had it taken down yet on
00:04:21.520
Now, someone said that her routine looks like something that a five-year-old might do right
00:04:26.300
after yelling, hey, dad, watch this. And that sums it up pretty well. At certain points,
00:04:32.240
her dance moves remind me of a person becoming possessed in a horror film. But that makes it
00:04:37.480
sound more impressive than it is. It might be more accurate to say that she looks like a disabled
00:04:41.780
kangaroo having an epileptic seizure. I can say at least that I have done a few of her moves myself
00:04:48.320
in the middle of the night when I wake up with a charley horse in my leg. Now, if you zoom in,
00:04:53.040
there's a moment during that routine where someone in the audience appears to have basically the same
00:04:56.920
thought. And you look at that guy and that's the expression of a man thinking, what in God's name
00:05:02.460
am I watching? It's a complete joke. And everyone watching understood that it's a complete joke
00:05:07.360
immediately. The fact that this woman qualified in any way to compete in the Olympics is the
00:05:11.420
clearest possible evidence that breakdancing should not be an Olympic event. And indeed,
00:05:16.560
it looks like it may not be around much longer. It's not on the official schedule
00:05:19.720
for the Olympics at Los Angeles in 2028. So Rachel Gunn may have actually done the world a favor by bombing
00:05:27.940
so badly that it ended this trend before it really began. In summary, Dr. Ray Gunn,
00:05:34.840
rather, she does have a PhD, has no actual skills. And she appears to have realized that fact very
00:05:40.720
early on in her professional life, which is why she's built her entire career on the idea that
00:05:45.240
anyone, especially any woman or any victim group, should be able to do whatever they want,
00:05:50.680
even if they're not very good at it. There's no secret about this. She comes out and says it.
00:05:54.880
And a university gave her a PhD for saying it, even though her dissertation has all of the
00:06:00.660
readability and coherence of Scrabble tiles dumped randomly on the floor. And just to give you an idea,
00:06:07.960
her dissertation begins by stating, quote, I recognize my own position as a member of the
00:06:14.440
LGBTQI community, though one receiving privileges for being in a heteronormative relationship.
00:06:20.080
So she's LGBT, which makes her oppressed, but she's in a heteronormative relationship. So she has
00:06:27.200
some privilege by osmosis, I guess. How can you be both LGBT and in a heteronormative relationship?
00:06:34.860
I don't know. How can you be an Olympic athlete while having the coordination of a baby fawn
00:06:40.000
just taking its first steps? I don't know. The world is full of mysteries. In any event,
00:06:45.180
she never defines what that privilege is or why it's relevant to any actual academic topic, but
00:06:50.600
she declares that she has it right out of the gate. And then Dr. Reagan gets into the really
00:06:55.760
substantive stuff. And this is where she wants you to reconceptualize what it means to be good
00:07:02.900
at breakdancing. Quote, rather than viewing female breakdancers as lacking the skills and techniques
00:07:09.420
required to participate, we can instead propose that how breakdancing operates, the way it is
00:07:14.720
structured and defined, is in opposition to the feminine. In other words, who cares if a woman can't
00:07:22.220
breakdance? That shouldn't prevent them from breakdancing, even at the Olympics. All they have
00:07:27.140
to do is join breakdancing competitions and everyone else has to pretend they're doing a good job.
00:07:31.900
Problem solved. It's a 300-page dissertation and it's almost completely unreadable, but that's kind of
00:07:38.320
the overriding message. Women can do whatever they want. It's only misogynists who would dare to say
00:07:43.940
otherwise. Quoting again from the dissertation, quote, social expectations disguised at biological
00:07:50.000
assumptions have a material effect on the corporeal possibility and expression. Now, what she's trying
00:07:57.240
to say here is that, I think, that society restricts what women are able to do, which is not really
00:08:04.660
true, of course, in Western societies. And the idea that women are somehow excluded from the world
00:08:09.780
of dance is just about as nonsensical a claim as you can make. You may as well argue that Asians are
00:08:15.680
being unfairly excluded from martial arts. But the more pressing point here is that this is what passes
00:08:21.960
for scholarship these days. Academia is now full of unimpressive dimwits who disguise the most banal
00:08:28.800
observations and shallow off-base analysis with big words and lots of unnecessary syllables.
00:08:35.940
And this, by the way, is the mark of a dumb person. It's also the mark of academia, which should tell
00:08:41.180
you something. But this is what dumb people do. Smart people can make complicated ideas sound simple.
00:08:48.960
Dumb people make simple ideas sound complicated. And that's all that academia does anymore.
00:08:55.220
It's nothing more than the effort to make simple and often quite wrong ideas sound way more complicated
00:09:01.500
than they are. Her whole dissertation is like this, quoting again,
00:09:06.240
I do not want to set out a utopian vision for the future of gender politics in breaking.
00:09:11.920
As tempting as this may be, such a call to arms would place limitations on the prospects enabled
00:09:16.940
through deterritorializations. Well, it's good that she adds this caution, because if she hadn't,
00:09:23.240
you know, I would have thought that her dissertation about the politics of breakdancing
00:09:26.940
is a guide to establishing a universal utopia on Earth. But she's a very humble person,
00:09:32.860
so she warns us that she cannot guide us to a utopia. She can only bring us most of the way
00:09:38.880
to the promised land. She's like the Moses of white female street dancers. But what about this
00:09:44.380
deterritorialization concept? What does that word mean? Well, it doesn't mean anything.
00:09:49.260
It's not a real word. It's more academic jargon invented by 110 IQs who want to sound like 150 IQs,
00:09:57.120
even though nobody with 150 IQ would ever be caught dead using a word like deterritorialization.
00:10:03.980
As for what it's supposed to mean, as best I can tell, it means that something is being spread.
00:10:08.800
So if it's deterritorialized, it's spread beyond its traditional or original territory.
00:10:13.280
Something like that. What does that have to do with breakdancing? Who knows?
00:10:18.660
The greater question is this, however. Why is a university paying someone to write a dissertation
00:10:23.560
on this topic and then teach about it full time? We could potentially use another dissertation that
00:10:29.440
answers that question. That's because as amusing as it may be to look at this woman spaz out in front
00:10:35.120
of an international audience and call it athleticism, there are serious implications here.
00:10:39.280
And she's not the only person who thinks like this. Pretty much everyone in power now thinks like
00:10:43.300
this. And this, again, is what academia is all about. And once again, a university in Australia
00:10:47.160
gave her a PhD for writing about how she's sad because more women aren't breakdancers.
00:10:52.900
Then she won a qualifier and appeared in the Olympics despite having no talent whatsoever.
00:10:56.720
And even after Ray Gunn publicly humiliated both herself and her country,
00:11:00.700
Australia's officials are still standing by here. So here's Australia's top Olympic official,
00:11:05.980
Anna Mears, talking about Rachel Gunn's feelings and how everyone who doesn't support her
00:11:12.040
and tell her she did a good job probably hates women. Watch.
00:11:17.200
What I can say is that I love Rachel. And I think that what has occurred on social media
00:11:26.460
with trolls and keyboard warriors and taking those comments and giving them airtime has been
00:11:32.080
really disappointing. If you don't know Rachel's story in 2008, she was locked in a room crying,
00:11:40.100
being involved in a male dominated sport as the only woman. And it took great courage for her to
00:11:47.240
continue on and fight for her opportunity to participate in a sport that she loved. And that
00:11:54.120
got her to winning the Olympic qualifying event to be here in Paris. She is the best breakdancer
00:12:00.740
female that we have for Australia. Now you look at the history of what we have had as women
00:12:06.340
athletes has faced in terms of criticism, belittlement, judgment, criticism, and simple
00:12:12.960
comments like they shouldn't be there. Courage. You know, there's a fine line between courage
00:12:19.520
and a lack of self-awareness. And I think that Dr. Ray Gunn has crossed that line by about a mile.
00:12:26.640
Anyway, that's an Australian official. And my case for invading and conquering Australia gets
00:12:33.240
stronger every day. But in between all the sobbing and deflection and accusations of misogyny,
00:12:39.180
there was an interesting claim in there, which is that Rachel Gunn is supposedly the best female
00:12:43.340
breakdancer in all of Australia. There's not a single woman in the entire country of 26 million
00:12:49.040
people that could do any better. And if that's the case, it's surprising. I mean, her dance routine
00:12:54.460
looks like the contortions a person might do if a spider ran up their shirt. And there are a lot
00:13:00.300
of spiders in Australia. So you'd think that many people would be capable of at least matching her
00:13:04.240
performance. Now, this obviously isn't the most important news happening in the world right now,
00:13:10.140
but it's worth discussing for a few reasons. And first of all, it's hilarious. That's the main
00:13:15.140
reason. But it also tells us something about our culture and especially about the university system.
00:13:20.260
Thanks to universities, whose mission is supposedly to educate future generations,
00:13:24.760
a profoundly narcissistic and untalented woman is being paid to write about breakdancing,
00:13:30.180
an unserious topic that in any event she doesn't even understand or respect. And then because she's
00:13:35.360
a woman, her country elevated her far beyond her competence, all the while attacking anyone who
00:13:40.140
pointed out how absurd the whole situation is. Now, yes, it's quite possible that Ray Gunn would
00:13:46.740
justify her performance by saying that it's interpretive and it's supposed to convey some kind
00:13:51.120
of meaningful message. And to be fair, her performance does have a meaningful message.
00:13:56.300
It's just not the one that she intends to send. It shows us in humorous, though excruciating detail,
00:14:02.480
just what happens when someone is able to coast by on victim points and intersectionality arithmetic,
00:14:09.080
eventually making it to a position that they are not remotely qualified for.
00:14:12.300
It's just very fortunate for the rest of us that Ray Gunn decided that she wanted to be a breakdancer
00:14:17.300
and not say, I don't know, an airline pilot. You can only imagine her interpretive piloting techniques
00:14:22.940
at 30,000 feet. So if the Olympics are good for anything anymore, it's this. It's putting images
00:14:29.640
like this in the minds of millions of people. It's exposing the absurdity of identity politics and the
00:14:36.260
gender cult by taking their beliefs to their logical conclusion. And that may not be good for a sporting
00:14:42.500
competition, but with less than 90 days to go until a DEI candidate is on the ballot for the presidency of
00:14:48.280
the United States, it's hard to think of a more important or more timely message. Now let's get to
00:14:54.940
our five headlines. Are you struggling with back taxes or unfiled returns? The IRS is escalating
00:15:04.940
collections by adding 20,000 new agents and sending millions of demand letters. Handling this alone
00:15:10.200
can be a huge mistake and cost you thousands of dollars. In these challenging times, your best
00:15:14.740
offense is with Tax Network USA. With over 14 years of experience, the experts at Tax Network USA
00:15:20.100
have saved clients millions in back taxes, regardless of the size of your tax issue.
00:15:24.460
Their expertise is your advantage. Tax Network USA offers three key services, protection, compliance,
00:15:29.600
and settlement. Upon signing up, Tax Network USA will immediately contact the IRS to secure
00:15:34.620
a protection order, ensuring that aggressive collection activities such as garnishments,
00:15:38.320
levies, or property seizures are halted. If you haven't filed it a while, if you need amended
00:15:42.080
returns, or if you're missing records, Tax Network USA's expert tax preparers will update all of your
00:15:47.180
filings to eliminate the risk of IRS enforcement. Then they'll create a settlement strategy to reduce
00:15:51.720
or eliminate your tax debt. The IRS is the largest collection agency in the world, and now that tax
00:15:56.180
season is over, collection season has begun. Tax Network USA can even help with state tax issues.
00:16:02.020
For a complimentary consultation, call today at 1-800-958-1000, or visit their website at
00:16:06.540
tnusa.com slash walsh. That's 1-800-958-1000, or visit tnusa.com slash walsh today. Don't let the
00:16:15.560
IRS take advantage of you. Get the help you need with Tax Network USA. I want to start just quickly
00:16:23.340
with this, because J.D. Vance made the rounds on the Sunday shows yesterday. I think he did three.
00:16:29.300
He did three of the Sunday shows, all in a single morning slash afternoon. And if you go on social
00:16:39.820
media right now, or if you go to the corporate media outlets, they'll tell you that Vance's
00:16:46.540
circuit through the Sunday shows was a disaster. It was terrible. It was a disaster. It was awful.
00:16:53.180
He did a terrible job. Complete meltdown. And then you go, and the funny thing is that you hear this
00:17:00.180
about the meltdown. It was terrible. It was awful. And the people saying that, it's usually that's
00:17:06.160
not accompanied by any actual clip, an example. Okay, well, he had a meltdown. He did a terrible
00:17:10.720
job. Show me an example. Where's the clip of this? Where's the terrible moment? There must have been a
00:17:15.940
lot of them. But as usual, the people making that claim, they don't show the clips. The actual clips
00:17:26.720
that you see circulating of J.D. Vance doing the Sunday shows, he's not only doing a good job,
00:17:34.920
he's in fact doing a masterful job. And he's actually showing why he was a very good pick for VP.
00:17:42.380
And there are plenty of conservatives now who are saying that this was a bad pick. Trump should not
00:17:49.800
have picked him. There are some conservatives that said that beforehand. They said they didn't want
00:17:54.480
J.D. Vance. There are some who were happy with it. And now they say, well, in hindsight, he shouldn't
00:17:59.300
pick J.D. Vance. And they're saying that mainly because of the way that Vance is being treated by the
00:18:06.800
media, the way that they are trying to turn Vance into this kind of punchline, this joke. But as I've
00:18:11.940
been explaining now for a week or two, they're not just doing that because it's J.D. Vance. They
00:18:18.340
would do that to anyone. No matter who Trump picked, they were going to single that person out
00:18:24.620
and drag them through the mud, obviously, and turn them into a punchline.
00:18:31.560
And as we've seen with Vance, they are not at all above just taking completely made up stories
00:18:37.880
and using that as fodder to turn the guy or try to turn him into a punchline. And if they're gonna
00:18:44.140
do that, they can do that to anyone. They could, if they had picked you as the VP, right? If Trump
00:18:49.760
had picked you, whoever you are, well, the media would have said, well, here's this person. Let's
00:18:53.560
just make up stories about them. And these are made up stories about his past. And that even includes
00:18:59.520
the story they're making up today about Vance, the story about yesterday. The story they're
00:19:05.540
telling about yesterday is that he did a terrible job. The reality is he didn't. He did a great job.
00:19:10.380
Let's only just play one clip because I think it shows, it shows why Vance, I think,
00:19:16.200
is one of the best Republicans in the country, if not the best, at dealing with an adversarial media.
00:19:23.460
So there are a couple we could choose, but let's start with this. And he's asked about
00:19:28.700
comments that he made about, you know, we've all heard the childless cat lady thing
00:19:34.660
over and over again. He's pressed on that. And he answers it. He does a good job answering it.
00:19:38.640
But then he pivots in, I think, a very clever way. Let's watch this.
00:19:43.360
You've now asked me three questions about comments that I made three years ago.
00:19:47.540
I wonder what Kamala Harris thinks about the fact that she supported policies that opened the American
00:19:52.280
Southern border. I wonder what Kamala Harris thinks about the fact that she lied to the American people
00:19:56.680
about Joe Biden's middle facility for the office. You are interviewing me, Dana, because I respect
00:20:02.960
the American people enough to sit down for an interview. I appreciate that. Kamala Harris has
00:20:06.420
been the nominee for three weeks. She hasn't sat down for a real interview. Believe me, we are asking.
00:20:10.820
You're not going to get a disagreement there. But the point is, Dana, you've got me for 15 minutes
00:20:14.700
or however long you have me. We should be talking about public policies that matter. How are we going
00:20:19.440
to lower inflation? How are we going to reduce the cost of food and housing? How are we going to close down
00:20:23.820
that Southern border? We've talked so little about that. We've talked a lot more about a sarcastic
00:20:28.240
remark I made three years ago. I think we should talk about the issues that most Americans care
00:20:32.200
about. This is exactly the right response. So when you're dealing with the adversarial media,
00:20:39.360
you get these tough questions, which are really bad faith questions. And the game here is to,
00:20:46.760
you know, you're not dodging the question. You answer the question briefly and succinctly,
00:20:51.300
and then you pivot the conversation back to your campaign message, to your message. And you put
00:20:56.220
the adversary, because this is not really an interview. It's an interrogation. They're not
00:21:01.540
treating it like an interview. And you, but you turn that person, you turn it against them. You put
00:21:07.260
them on their heels. You put them in a defensive position where they have to all of a sudden explain
00:21:11.700
themselves. And he does it very well there. At another point, he's asked about Trump's comments in
00:21:19.840
that interview with the, again, we can't really call it an interview, but that interrogation by
00:21:24.320
the black journalist, his comments about whether Kamala Harris is actually black or not. And he
00:21:30.560
handles this really well. Also, let's watch it. I believe that Kamala Harris is whatever she says
00:21:36.720
she is. But I believe importantly that President Trump is right, that she's a chameleon. She pretends
00:21:42.240
to be one thing in front of one audience. She pretends to be something different in front of another
00:21:45.940
audience. Look, Dana, she's not running a political campaign. She's running a movie. She only speaks
00:21:52.500
to voters behind a teleprompter. Everything is scripted. She doesn't have her policy positions
00:21:56.740
out there. She hasn't answered why she wanted to ban fracking, but now she doesn't. She wanted to
00:22:01.080
fund police, but now she doesn't. She wanted to open the border, but now she doesn't. She should
00:22:05.380
have to answer for why she presents a different set of policies to one audience and a different set of
00:22:11.160
policies to another audience. And I think that's what President Trump is getting at. This is a
00:22:14.700
fundamentally fake person. She's different depending on who she's in front of.
00:22:18.880
Another, once again, very well done. You're taking the question. You're saying,
00:22:27.800
I'll answer your dumb question. Here it is. But here's what we should be talking about.
00:22:33.400
And if you're a Republican on the national stage, you need to be very good at that. Most Republicans
00:22:36.920
aren't. And if you're Trump's running mate, you have to be especially good at that. And you also have
00:22:42.600
to be good at, this is one of the kind of unique skills that someone who's Trump's running mate or
00:22:48.060
in the Trump administration at all has to be able to do, which is because Trump's going to say a lot
00:22:53.680
of stuff. He's going to get up at his rally. He's going to talk for 90 minutes about anything at all.
00:22:58.580
And he's going to say, he's going to say a thousand different things. And the media is going to sift
00:23:03.020
through it and pick out whatever bits they want and obsess over those bits.
00:23:08.600
So you have to be good at like taking those little random bits and asides and half jokes that Trump
00:23:15.280
says. You have to be good at taking those and bringing those back to the fundamental core
00:23:22.780
campaign message. And J.D. Vance does a great job of it there. The other running mate, Tim Walls,
00:23:33.340
of course, there's plenty of controversy swarming around him, although he's not being interrogated
00:23:38.160
about it yet for misrepresenting his military record. And this is a major problem for the
00:23:43.980
Democrats. Now, the media is providing cover for the Harris campaign for now, but it is a major
00:23:48.040
problem. They can't hide from it forever. And it's not the only problem, though, because Walls is a
00:23:54.160
radical leftist and he's a bizarre, creepy guy with a quite deranged and sordid past. And that includes
00:24:01.840
his policy of putting tampons in the boys' restrooms at schools. Now, any normal person
00:24:07.520
finds that disturbing and weird at a minimum. But here's MSNBC doing their best to try to spin this
00:24:16.560
to make it not just a normal thing, but a normal thing that any dad would do. Let's watch.
00:24:25.100
Things he has done that is getting him criticism. The Trump campaign is attacking Governor Walls as,
00:24:32.780
quote, tampon Tim, which drives me crazy because it is making fun of something very serious
00:24:44.000
and very caring that he that he has done for for Minnesota students. Talk about this.
00:24:49.700
Well, first and foremost, Tim Walls is a dad and that is big dad energy, making sure that folks
00:24:57.360
who need access to hygiene products have them. We don't charge people to use toilet paper right at
00:25:04.040
their schools. This is a necessity for people. And I think it just shows like the kindness and the
00:25:09.480
goodness in him. And I also think folks are telling on themselves, right, when they don't see why this
00:25:15.180
is a necessity, you're telling me you've never had to use a wad of toilet paper and like try to figure
00:25:20.260
it out or that you haven't had resources to pay for tampons or for pads. You know, this is a real
00:25:26.160
issue and it just shows how disconnected they are from the lives of real people across the country.
00:25:32.340
I think it's a huge victory and he should wear that moniker proudly.
00:25:35.500
That's allegedly a news anchor, by the way, who's started off by saying that the Republican
00:25:46.300
campaign is driving him crazy. So editorializing. And then this is the corporate media's version
00:25:54.400
of, you know, holding people in power accountable if they're on, right, the left side.
00:26:01.420
The question is, you know, your opponents are a bunch of horrible bigots. Care to comment?
00:26:11.760
Care to comment on why your opponents are terrible? Say, I've noticed that your opponents are really,
00:26:16.620
really bad and terrible. What do you have to say about that? Well, she says that it's a big dad energy
00:26:23.220
to put tampons in the boys' room. I mean, these people are just freaks. My God, it's big dad energy
00:26:35.100
to give tampons to boys? What the hell are you talking about? Like, what kind of dads are you
00:26:42.340
hanging out with? No, you know what big dad energy is in this case? Big dad energy is to hear about a
00:26:49.200
tampon dispenser in the boys' room and to then walk in there and rip it off the wall. Okay, that's
00:26:55.600
what it is. Big dad energy is to say, what? The tampons in the boys' room? What kind of nonsense is
00:27:01.880
that? And then go handle it. Like, that's big dad energy. But notice something else. Notice how
00:27:10.100
neither one of those people, neither the anchor nor the woman who, that's Walls' lieutenant governor,
00:27:15.800
I believe. Neither of them address the actual issue, of course, which is that boys don't need
00:27:22.380
tampons because boys don't get periods. Okay, that's the point. And it's never addressed.
00:27:31.860
This is the game they play, right? Like, they put tampons in the boys' room and then you object
00:27:37.420
because that's crazy. And they say, oh, so you think that feminine hygiene products shouldn't be
00:27:43.320
made available to people who need them? No, that's not what we're saying, you moron.
00:27:50.200
Yes, make them available to people who need them, but boys don't need them. That's the point.
00:27:58.540
Literally, no boy in the history of the human race has needed a tampon. No boy ever has menstruated or
00:28:08.180
ever will. So that's the point. You know, the lieutenant governor says, oh, these folks are
00:28:15.900
telling on themselves. What, are you telling me that you've never been in a spot and, you know,
00:28:19.860
you didn't have a tampon, you needed to use a balled up toilet paper? Yeah, I am telling you that,
00:28:26.060
ma'am. I've never been in that spot. Okay, because I'm a man. So approximately half of the human race has
00:28:33.940
never been in the spot you're talking about. Because we don't menstruate. Because we're men.
00:28:40.060
Okay? That's the point here. But the left cannot engage on that point. They will not engage on it.
00:28:46.980
They will not sit there and actually defend, explicitly defend the proposition that boys
00:28:52.080
can menstruate. They're not gonna do it. They will not do it because they know how crazy it sounds.
00:28:56.220
They don't want that clip circulating out there. They don't want that.
00:29:04.000
So instead, they argue with it. Like, if you didn't know any better and you heard this conversation,
00:29:08.840
you would think that conservatives are objecting to feminine hygiene products being made available
00:29:15.100
to females in female bathrooms. That's what you would think. But of course, that isn't.
00:29:20.480
That's the opposite of what we're saying. The opposite. But they're not gonna do it.
00:29:26.940
I mean, you have to force them to do it. Corporate media is not gonna force them,
00:29:31.540
but you have to force them to actually stand by their real positions. Your actual position is that
00:29:37.660
you think boys can menstruate. And so you need to defend that. And this is something,
00:29:43.720
Donald Trump is going to have to get Kamala Harris to defend that proposition specifically.
00:29:53.400
Like, Kamala, do men have uteruses? Yes or no? Do you think that men have uteruses and can have
00:29:59.600
babies? Is that what you think? Like, what's your take on that? Get her on the record saying that
00:30:07.520
men can have babies. Because if you don't put them on the spot and force them to confront the
00:30:16.240
insanity of their own positions, they're gonna dance around it. And they're more likely to just
00:30:21.180
say what Walls said at a rally over the weekend when he was responding to the uproar over this and
00:30:29.080
other things. And this was his response to the the his critics. Let's watch.
00:30:37.400
Look, you and I, especially the gray hairs in the crowd. We know we know our relatives. Republicans
00:30:44.980
used to be the people talking about freedom. Not this group. When they talk about freedom,
00:30:53.000
it means that the government should be free to invade your exam room with your doctor.
00:30:59.080
Look, in Minnesota, we respect our neighbors and the personal choices they make. We maybe
00:31:08.900
wouldn't make the same choices, but we respect them. And I know in Minnesota and in Arizona
00:31:14.820
and places across this country, you know what makes society work best? Is when you learn
00:31:19.880
a golden rule. Mind your own damn business. Mind your own damn business. You don't need it.
00:31:24.700
I don't I don't need you telling me what books to read. I don't need you telling me about what
00:31:30.240
religion we worship. And I sure the heck don't need you to tell me about my family.
00:31:36.420
So mind your own damn business, he says. This is the same guy, of course, who set up a snitch line
00:31:41.920
during covid so that your neighbor could report you if you weren't social distancing or, you know,
00:31:46.800
not wearing a mask in your own living room. This is the guy who supports funding Planned Parenthood,
00:31:52.600
forcing taxpayers to fund abortions, whether they like it or not.
00:31:55.640
This is the guy who would call you a horrendous bigot if you don't use preferred pronouns for
00:32:01.620
someone, meaning he expects you to adopt gender ideology, participate in it,
00:32:08.080
like be an active part of it. So mind your own business.
00:32:13.960
Like that's the last thing that he wants. Even one of the examples that he gives, he says,
00:32:18.800
I don't need you telling me what books to read. No one's telling you what books to read,
00:32:23.380
Tim Walls. OK, like, I mean, I think it'd be great if you read any book at all.
00:32:29.100
So if you're reading books, then then good. Just start by reading any book.
00:32:37.440
But that's not the point. OK, no one is telling you what books you should read.
00:32:43.820
So the don't tell us what books to read thing, that's a reference, of course, to the supposed
00:32:48.440
book bans that the left drones on and on about. But those book bans are not book bans. Those are
00:32:55.160
efforts to specifically to get pornographic content out of public schools. That's all that is.
00:33:03.960
So the Republicans who supposedly support book bans, the conservatives that are calling for book bans,
00:33:11.260
let's be very specific about it. They're saying, let's prohibit pornographic content
00:33:17.360
from schools. Let's just do that. And why is that stuff in the schools to begin with?
00:33:27.100
Why is explicitly sexual stuff in the schools? Why do these teachers, these adults want to talk to
00:33:34.740
minors about this explicitly sexual material? Why do you want to share sexual material with minors?
00:33:41.700
You creeps. Like, why do you want to do that? Well, it's because the left isn't minding their
00:33:48.240
own business. They want to talk to kids about this stuff because they're not minding their own
00:33:52.640
business. They want to be the ones instilling values in our children. They want to be the ones
00:33:57.640
who talk to our children about subjects that only parents should be talking about.
00:34:03.100
So mind your own damn business. Yeah, good advice. Mind your own damn business. They're not your kids.
00:34:07.400
Okay, teach the ABCs and one, two, threes. Teach about history and math. That's what we need in
00:34:14.200
the school. All the rest of it is none of your damn business.
00:34:19.480
So they're very selective about the times when we should be minding our own business.
00:34:30.300
And these are people that are certainly not in the habit of doing that at all.
00:34:33.840
I wanted to mention this also. On Friday, it was reported all over social media that
00:34:37.520
Joe Rogan had endorsed RFK Jr. on his podcast. And let's first listen to a clip. This is what the
00:34:45.200
supposed endorsement consisted of. That's just what they do. That's politics. They do it on the left.
00:34:53.640
They do it on the right. They gaslight you. They manipulate you. They promote narratives. And the
00:34:59.860
only one who's not doing that is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. You a fan? Yeah, I am a fan. Yeah, he's the only
00:35:05.060
one that makes sense to me. He's the only one that he doesn't attack people. He attacks actions and
00:35:10.680
ideas. But he's, um, he's much more reasonable and intelligent. I mean, the guy was an environmental
00:35:17.200
attorney and cleaned up the East River. He's a legitimate guy. You know, before anybody started
00:35:23.960
calling him an anti-vaxxer, which I thought he was, too. I thought he was just nut, this
00:35:27.760
like conspiracy theorist nut, until I read his book. I read the real Anthony Fauci. And I'm
00:35:32.340
like, what is, how much of this is real? Because if it's all real, this is insane. And we live
00:35:40.100
in a world where we're being manipulated by these health organizations that are being paid
00:35:44.900
by the pharmaceutical drug interests. And these pharmaceutical drug companies are pumping these
00:35:50.820
products out into the population and telling us that we need them and then making insane amounts
00:35:56.380
of money. And then also the government is in on it. And also they share a patent with Moderna. And
00:36:03.520
also they, they share profits and there's $700 million, 700. I mean, however, however much money
00:36:11.220
was made, whatever the number is that these guys made off of these products, like this is all of it
00:36:16.900
is crazy. Okay. Now you may notice something about Rogan's endorsement of RFK Jr., which is that he did
00:36:22.920
not endorse RFK Jr. He said nice things about him. He praised him. That's not the same thing as
00:36:29.360
endorsing him. In fact, what Rogan said about RFK Jr. is no different than what he said about the guy
00:36:35.200
in the past. But he said all this same stuff in the past many times. There's no story here. There's
00:36:40.780
nothing new. So Joe Rogan has the same view of RFK Jr. today that he had last week. That's like,
00:36:47.780
that's the story. Now, even if Rogan had endorsed him, even if he had said, I am officially endorsing
00:36:54.140
RFK Jr. for a president, it still wouldn't be a big deal. I mean, certainly nothing to get upset
00:37:01.520
about. Rogan is free to prefer whatever candidate he wants, endorse whatever candidate he wants.
00:37:08.100
You know, I like Joe, but I'm not voting based on who Joe endorses.
00:37:13.060
And he doesn't expect anyone to vote based on that. In fact, Joe's been very clear when it comes
00:37:17.840
to politics or anything else that he doesn't want his audience to just go blindly believe or follow
00:37:22.520
whatever he says. Like to his credit, he's always been pretty clear about that. He's just giving his
00:37:27.200
own take on it. This is what I think you guys should think for yourself. So the whole thing's
00:37:32.220
a non-issue, not an endorsement, even if it was like, who cares? Okay. It's Joe Rogan's not a
00:37:40.560
Republican. I mean, that's not, does, did anyone not know that? But that's not how it was treated by
00:37:46.420
certain segments of the right, especially on Twitter. There was a lot of anger and outrage
00:37:52.340
over this. And in fact, I found out about it because I was maybe like other people, I saw Joe
00:37:57.100
Rogan trending on Twitter and I thought, okay, like what's the left mad about this time, right?
00:38:02.460
What are they complaining about this time with Joe, what Joe Rogan said? So I clicked on it
00:38:05.680
only to find much to my chagrin that he was trending this time because people on the right
00:38:11.600
were whining about him because of this. The account cat turd, which is an account
00:38:18.320
called cat turd, but it does have 2.7 million followers. That account, among others, spent all
00:38:25.520
day attacking Joe. And he posted stuff like this, quote, so I've never been a Joe Rogan fan. Can't
00:38:31.260
stand him. Yes, he has a popular podcast, but I've always thought he was absolutely politically dumb.
00:38:35.700
He's great at figuring things out two years after we do. What a legend. So did it surprise me when he
00:38:41.420
endorsed idiot RFK Jr. today? LOL. No, we're talking about the same effing idiot who endorsed Bernie Sanders,
00:38:47.940
right? He's the podcast equivalent of a dumb blonde joke. He also called his podcast gay and low IQ
00:38:54.060
and dumb blonde again. He kept going on and on about the dumb blonde thing, along with a bunch
00:38:58.220
of other insults, insults that seem to indicate that he's never listened to the podcast. I mean,
00:39:04.040
you could say what you want about Rogan's show, but the guy, I mean, he'll have like a three and a half
00:39:08.080
hour conversation with an astronomer or an archeologist. Call that what you want, but low IQ
00:39:14.100
and dumb blonde just don't make any sense. There are probably no dumb blondes listening to Joe
00:39:21.920
Rogan on a regular basis. So if you're going to insult someone, at least try to make sure that
00:39:25.100
your insults bear some relation to your target. Unless he's saying that Joe Rogan himself is a dumb
00:39:31.040
blonde, but Rogan is a 57 year old bald guy. So no one's looking at Rogan and saying, oh, look at that
00:39:39.040
dumb blonde. So I'm confused. Maybe it's because I'm a dumb blonde. I don't know.
00:39:44.400
But let's not get hung up on that. Or on this one account that was attacking Rogan,
00:39:47.900
this is just an example. And there were a lot of tweets like that from certain right wingers who
00:39:52.240
were very, very upset with Joe Rogan and basically swore him off as a moron and a tool because he
00:39:58.280
endorsed RFK Jr., even though he did not endorse RFK Jr. And that is what was going on. So I want to say
00:40:07.400
something about this and I already addressed it on Twitter, but I want to repeat the same point here
00:40:11.580
on the show. And that is, first of all, Joe Rogan is a powerful cultural force, one that is at a
00:40:21.460
minimum, extremely friendly to conservatives. Countless times over the years, he has platformed,
00:40:27.760
as the left would like to say, right wing voices, very right wing voices. Okay. People who are far more
00:40:34.680
right wing than the conservatives who are attacking Joe Rogan now, right? Like he's given a platform to
00:40:41.740
people who are much more based than the conservatives that are freaking out at Joe Rogan. He may not
00:40:49.460
consider himself to be a conservative or to be a part of the conservative movement, and that's fine.
00:40:54.020
He's still a net good for the culture and for conservatism, a significant net good.
00:40:59.980
He might not be a conservative, but he's a friend to conservatives. And he's taken conservative
00:41:06.960
positions that were extremely unpopular and pretty risky at the time that he took them. He did that
00:41:11.500
with COVID, for example. He started openly questioning the trans agenda years ago. I mean,
00:41:18.780
he was criticizing the trans agenda before many conservatives were criticizing it.
00:41:22.920
He's been a much more indispensable opponent of trans ideology, a much more effective opponent of
00:41:31.900
trans ideology than like all of the conservatives criticizing him combined. Okay. So here's the
00:41:40.420
point. You don't turn on a guy who's been a huge asset to your movement, a guy who could continue to
00:41:47.920
be a huge asset. And I'm not saying you have to agree with him. I'm not saying you can't criticize
00:41:53.720
him. If you heard him, you heard what he said about RFK Jr. and you were to come out and say,
00:41:59.520
no, Joe's wrong on this one. Okay. He's, I don't agree. RFK Jr. is bad. Here's why.
00:42:05.960
That's fine. There's no problem with that. Like the point is not that you have to automatically agree
00:42:12.300
with everything Rogan says, or that you have to refrain from criticizing him or making any arguments
00:42:16.900
against them. That's not the point. Go ahead and criticize him. Absolutely. But to just completely
00:42:24.180
trash the guy, I mean, to throw him to the side, to condemn him totally as nothing but a moron and a
00:42:29.720
phony, et cetera, et cetera, all because he said one thing you disagree with is asinine. It is
00:42:35.140
strategically insane. Like, I'm not saying that it's mean and it hurts my feelings. It doesn't. I mean,
00:42:41.580
I'm not the one getting attacked by, I mean, I do get attacked by these same people all the time,
00:42:45.880
but in this case, it wasn't me. And I don't think it hurts Joe's feelings. I honestly,
00:42:50.080
I don't think he really cares what these Twitter influencers are saying about him.
00:42:54.520
I'm saying that strategically, it's just a very dumb move. It's stupid and petty and emotional.
00:43:00.580
You're shooting yourself in the foot just to prove a point.
00:43:04.920
Like, and there's way too much of this kind of thing among certain right-wing influencers
00:43:09.060
at the moment. These people just, they don't understand how to build and maintain an actual
00:43:16.200
movement. They don't know how to wield influence, even though we call them influencers, how to form
00:43:21.120
strategic alliances. And they don't know who we should be forming alliances with. Like,
00:43:26.800
they have no instinct for that at all. In fact, they seem to go really looking to destroy anyone who
00:43:33.840
actually moves the needle. Because the litmus test for these people is just this.
00:43:41.220
Are you currently saying something nice about Donald Trump? And if you're currently saying
00:43:46.320
something nice about him, then you're great. You're a hero. You're our friend. You're our ally. We love
00:43:50.460
you. You're our compatriot. If you aren't, then you're worthless. You're a piece of garbage. You're
00:43:55.520
an idiot. We don't need you. Burn in hell, you sack of shit. Like, that is the attitude. And it's just
00:44:00.780
crazy. It's crazy. Because there are plenty of people in the culture who may not always say nice
00:44:06.360
stuff about Trump and yet could be very helpful to the movement overall. People who might not even
00:44:13.480
like Trump all that much and yet can still be an enormous asset culturally. Meanwhile, there are
00:44:20.740
other people who may love Trump and yet have very little to offer. Because loving Trump alone cannot be
00:44:28.060
the only thing that determines who align, you know, who we align ourselves with, right? Like if an
00:44:35.060
abortion doctor who's currently an abortionist and has no plans in stopping, if they were to stand up
00:44:41.120
and say, I love Trump, are we going to elevate that person and say that this person is our friend now
00:44:48.760
that currently are killing babies because they like Trump? I would hope not.
00:44:53.740
But because of this kind of litmus test, what ends up happening is that you have these influencers who
00:45:02.440
throw someone like Joe Rogan to the side while heaping praise on like some obscure rapper who
00:45:09.980
nobody cares about and nobody likes and has no real fans and has no cultural influence and makes garbage
00:45:17.360
music. But, you know, they shouted MAGA at a concert once or whatever. So it's like you trade in the guy
00:45:26.120
with massive cultural impact for somebody with none. Because to you, the only thing that matters is
00:45:34.980
just that one little bit. It's just, it's a bad strategy. That's not how you build and maintain a
00:45:44.740
movement. So the right thing to say to someone like Joe Rogan is, hey, you should vote for Donald
00:45:50.120
Trump. I think it's a, I think it's a huge mistake. And this is me talking now. I think it's a huge
00:45:55.120
mistake to not vote for Donald Trump. Huge mistake. And we could talk about why, but like the fact that
00:46:03.440
you don't agree on that point, you're not my enemy. Well, I mean, there are people out there who are
00:46:09.820
enemies of our movement. Let's, let's, let's be very clear about that. Who hate our guts, who want us
00:46:13.940
dead. There are evil people who have evil positions and want to do evil things and are doing evil
00:46:19.440
things. And they are enemies. But someone like Joe Rogan isn't. And so there's nothing wrong again
00:46:26.560
with saying, hey, you're totally wrong about this. You're way off base. Like you should be voting for
00:46:33.120
Donald Trump. You don't vote for Donald Trump. That, that, you know, you say whatever you want about
00:46:37.440
third parties and whatever, and you, it's your vote and you can do what you want with it. Of
00:46:40.900
course, that's true. But in reality, like in, in the real world, there are only two candidates who
00:46:49.520
matter. RFK Jr. is not going to win. And also, by the way, he's really just a standard leftist for
00:46:55.760
the most part. I mean, he's a standard leftist on most things, except, except when it comes to big
00:46:59.900
pharma and he's, and he's good on big pharma. Give him credit for that. I mean, I think it'd be
00:47:06.000
fantastic if, if Trump made him head of like HHS or something. Great. Like I wouldn't mind having
00:47:10.840
RFK Jr. in the, in the cabinet, but there are really, there are only two options. It's Kamala
00:47:17.600
who is a, you know, it's the communist or it's Donald Trump. Those are your two options
00:47:23.200
in the real world. And if you don't vote for the non-communist, then you are in effect,
00:47:31.440
even if you don't mean to, you are in effect supporting the communists. You're helping the
00:47:34.860
communist to, to gain power. Uh, again, nothing wrong with making that argument. We should make
00:47:40.620
it, but we don't need to, you know, uh, take someone and burn them at the stake as a heretic
00:47:49.400
because, uh, because of this, uh, because of this one point as important as it is.
00:47:55.520
Well, you know how we, uh, expose the utter insanity of the gender cult with what is a woman?
00:48:00.260
Well, the same group of white guys are back and this time we're taking aim at the race
00:48:04.900
hustlers. Am I racist is coming to theaters this September. I went deep undercover into
00:48:09.500
the cesspool of DEI, sat through their mind numbing seminars, nodded along to their pseudo
00:48:15.120
intellectual babble, uh, watched as they twisted themselves into pretzels, trying to explain
00:48:19.960
their own nonsense. It was, uh, very painful, but somebody had to do it. And this Thursday,
00:48:25.480
August 15th, advanced tickets go on sale for Am I racist? So you can see all this for yourself.
00:48:30.760
And what we need you to do is get yours and get them early. So check out amiracist.com,
00:48:35.120
watch the trailer, get the details, get the tickets on August 15th. Now let's get to our daily
00:48:38.960
cancellation. On Twitter over the weekend, somebody posted an interesting prompt for discussion.
00:48:49.500
The question posed, uh, is this, what might you ask on a first date to determine their IQ?
00:48:56.260
Now, lots of people offered answers to this question. Many of the answers were predictably
00:48:59.580
horrible, uh, likely because they were given by people who have no record of success in the dating
00:49:03.860
world. And just to remind you, a record of success in dating does not mean that you've dated a lot of
00:49:09.560
people. That is in fact a record of failure. Okay. If you've dated a lot of people, you're,
00:49:14.000
you're bad at dating. You're bad at this. No one should listen to you. If you are say in your late
00:49:18.140
twenties or early thirties, and you've been on hundreds of dates with many dozens of different people,
00:49:22.460
that doesn't mean that you're good at dating. It means that you are apparently not good at it.
00:49:26.760
In a similar way, if a college senior is now heading into his seventh year of college,
00:49:31.120
it doesn't mean that he's really good at college. We shouldn't say this guy's great at college. He's
00:49:35.320
doing it forever. Uh, it means precisely the opposite. So dating like college should move from
00:49:40.760
one step to the next until you graduate. People qualified to give dating advice. The only people
00:49:45.820
qualified to give it are those who have graduated and graduation in this case, of course is marriage.
00:49:51.080
The whole point of dating is to graduate to marriage. If someone has not yet graduated,
00:49:55.780
then there's, you know, we don't know whether they know how to graduate because they haven't done it.
00:49:59.880
And if they don't know how to do, uh, the thing that dating is actually for,
00:50:03.980
there's something not, they're certainly not equipped to give dating advice.
00:50:06.880
So that might explain why the dating advice offered on social media and in response to questions like
00:50:11.280
this is so terrible so often. But as a dating graduate myself, I decided to take a stab at the
00:50:18.660
question. Uh, it is a good question. I will say, you know, you should be looking to date someone who
00:50:22.980
is basically intelligent. The only caveat is that you, is that you actually shouldn't need to ask
00:50:27.080
any particular question to figure this out. If you are yourself intelligent, then you should be able
00:50:31.960
to assess whether the other person is intelligent just from talking to them for 10 minutes. If your
00:50:37.500
dumb radar, your dumb dar, let's call it is not finely tuned enough to sniff out a dummy in 10 minutes
00:50:42.660
or less. Well, I've got bad news for you. I don't think I need to spell it out.
00:50:46.640
Actually, I do need to spell it out. You're dumb. Uh, that's what I'm saying.
00:50:51.420
So with that said, there are questions you can ask that will help clarify things pretty quickly.
00:50:57.260
So here's what I advise with the stipulation that this particular advice only applies to women
00:51:02.100
dating men. So I've given men plenty of dating advice over the years. So this one's for the ladies.
00:51:08.760
If you want to figure out what kind of man you're with intellectually,
00:51:12.260
ask him this question, what historical periods are you interested in?
00:51:21.880
This is a very serious suggestion to any single women. The next time you're on a date, ask that
00:51:25.680
question. Uh, it won't tell you everything you need to know about the guy, but it will tell you a
00:51:30.600
lot. And it may tell you enough because an intelligent man with an inquisitive mind will not
00:51:36.240
only have an answer, but will be excited that you asked. Like you want a man who not only answers
00:51:41.480
it, but is like, Oh, thank God. I didn't, I didn't think you'd be asking me that question on a first
00:51:45.000
date. Thank God. Let's talk about this. His eyes will light up that you brought this up. And he might
00:51:51.780
tell you that he's interested in the American revolution or the civil war or ancient Egypt or
00:51:56.400
the early church or the late Roman empire or the Napoleonic wars or the crusades. Or you might be
00:52:01.680
really lucky and find yourself on a date with a guy who has a very specific and slightly more
00:52:05.140
obscure historical interest. Maybe he tells you that he's reading a book right now about the history
00:52:09.280
of Mongolia or the Amazon or 19th century polar exploration or any of a thousand other possible
00:52:16.280
topics. If he's a smart, interesting guy who likes to read and loves to learn, he can not only rattle
00:52:22.340
off facts about this area of interest, but even more importantly, he can tell you why he's interested
00:52:27.480
in it. And you can learn a lot about him, but by not just what he likes to read about and what
00:52:32.860
historical periods he finds fascinating. But when he tells you what he likes about it, like why does
00:52:37.420
this resonate with him? You can learn more from that than you can from two hours of mindless small
00:52:45.240
talk. Now, as the woman, this not only shows you that he's an intelligent guy, but it also provides
00:52:53.400
you an opportunity to make yourself appealing to him. Because a man is not looking for a woman who
00:52:59.880
shares his interests. Okay, let's just so you know, the man's like, he's not looking for you to
00:53:05.820
like all the same stuff that he likes. If he likes to hunt and to read books about World War II,
00:53:11.400
he doesn't need a woman who also likes to hunt and read books about World War II. In fact, he'd
00:53:14.600
probably be kind of weirded out by that. He's looking for a woman after all, not another dude.
00:53:19.780
But he does want a woman who is interested in the fact that he is interested in those things.
00:53:26.020
So he wants a woman who encourages him in his interests and respects his interests and is even
00:53:32.260
a little bit impressed by them. So for instance, my wife does not share my quite rabid interest in
00:53:40.480
fishing. And I've seen her maybe pick up a fishing rod three times since we married, while I have picked
00:53:47.520
one up three million times. But when I come home from fishing and I report that I just caught the biggest
00:53:53.360
fish ever, she will eagerly ask to see a picture. And when I show her the picture, she'll act
00:53:58.660
legitimately impressed. Now, she may be pretending or hamming it up a bit just, you know, for all I
00:54:04.400
know. But I appreciate the effort. It's very feminine and affectionate for a woman to make her
00:54:09.320
man feel special and accomplished in those moments. A woman who rolls her eyes and makes it clear that she
00:54:14.920
doesn't give a crap at all is a buzzkill and a turnoff. So she doesn't have to care, but she should
00:54:22.080
care that he cares. And that's your opportunity to signal to the man that you're the kind of woman
00:54:27.680
who cares that he cares about something. So this question is a win-win on multiple levels.
00:54:33.880
Now, on the flip side, if a man is asked what historical periods interest him and he cannot
00:54:40.560
answer the question or even scoffs at it or offers up some generic historical subject but then can't
00:54:47.060
explain why he finds it interesting or speak at any length about it, that's a good sign that he's
00:54:52.300
a boring midwit with a shallow, incurious mind. Now, I'm not saying that your date has to be a PhD
00:54:58.740
level expert in history, especially because PhDs don't mean anything anymore, as we talked about
00:55:02.460
in the opening. I'm not saying that he needs to have a vast knowledge of the entire scope of world
00:55:08.140
history. The point is simply that a smart, inquisitive man will at least have a couple of
00:55:14.740
historical subjects that he finds interesting and he enjoys learning about. He doesn't have to be an
00:55:21.500
expert in them. He just likes them. He's interested in them and he likes to read about them. He likes to
00:55:26.420
learn about them. Now, the chances are very substantial that a man who has no interest in
00:55:31.940
history and no knowledge of it at all is pretty stupid. The overlap between stupid and historically
00:55:39.260
illiterate among men is extremely high. Now, it's not that being historically illiterate is the same
00:55:45.140
thing as being stupid. It's that historical illiteracy is one of the most glaringly obvious
00:55:50.040
signs pointing to stupidity. Just like we might say that wearing a size 46 in pants isn't the same
00:55:58.580
thing as being morbidly obese. It's technically possible that someone who could have a 46 waist and
00:56:04.520
not be obese. Maybe they're seven and a half feet tall and 46 is actually slim for their height.
00:56:09.540
It's possible. But in the vast majority of cases, a guy walking around in quadruple XL pants
00:56:14.640
is extremely fat. Just as in the majority of cases, a guy who's never voluntarily read a book about
00:56:22.540
history in his life is a dumbass. Now, the great thing about my tweet on this subject is that it proved
00:56:29.260
itself because the replies quickly filled with dumb guys who aren't interested in history trying to
00:56:35.660
explain why not being interested in history doesn't make them dumb. But their explanations were all very
00:56:41.220
dumb because they're dumb. There are many comments claiming that history is boring and unimportant and
00:56:47.120
only nerds care about it. I was informed over and over again that it's perfectly valid for a man to have
00:56:53.000
little interest in any historical subject. And that's true. It is valid to be dumb in a legal sense.
00:57:00.380
You know, it's valid. You're allowed to be dumb. You can even vote and be dumb, unfortunately.
00:57:06.840
But that doesn't change the fact that it is dumb to have no interest in history.
00:57:11.360
That's a legally valid position, but it's not an intellectually valid one.
00:57:15.180
And it's the worst kind of dumb because it's arrogant. It's a dumb arrogance.
00:57:23.120
Like, you don't even have the decency to be humble in your dumbness. Instead, you declare that
00:57:28.440
nothing matters if it occurred before you were born. You're not interested in anything that happened
00:57:34.140
to occur before you entered the scene. And because you've turned up your dumb little nose at everything
00:57:41.060
that occurred in the world prior to the moment of your birth, you have no sense of perspective.
00:57:47.040
You don't even understand the things that are happening in the world today because
00:57:50.260
you don't know anything about what precipitated those things. You cannot have any insight into
00:57:55.560
the state of things today if you don't know anything about how things were yesterday.
00:58:00.060
You cannot understand people. You can't understand yourself if you don't know history.
00:58:05.480
Like, living your life today without ever studying history, it's like picking up a book and
00:58:09.840
starting it somewhere in the middle without any concern for what happened in the 20 chapters
00:58:14.420
that you skipped. Now, I realize this analogy may fly over the heads of dummies who don't read in
00:58:19.820
the first place, but the point stands. And besides all that, history is full of stories that are just
00:58:27.880
plain fascinating. Like, how does this not interest you? You're missing out on so many amazing
00:58:34.200
adventures. For example, I just finished a book called River of Darkness about the Spanish
00:58:38.620
Kikisador Francisco de Oriana, who in 1541 traveled over the Andes Mountains and into the Amazon.
00:58:47.080
And he got into the Amazon and then they needed a ship. So they shut up, they set up a, you know,
00:58:55.840
a manufacturing facility, basically. They built a ship from scratch. They had to manufacture the nails
00:59:02.440
first to build the ship right down to the, they didn't have nails, right? They're in the jungle.
00:59:07.400
There's no, they don't, there's no metal. So they had to make the nails and then cut down all the
00:59:12.480
trees and make the ship. And then he sailed the entire length of the Amazon River, more than 4,000
00:59:18.180
miles before making it to the Atlantic Ocean and sailing up to Venezuela. Nobody had ever done that
00:59:23.240
before. The Amazon was completely unexplored and unknown. Many men died along the way. They battled
00:59:29.460
hostile Indian tribes and wild animals and disease and starvation and exposure. How could any man hear
00:59:35.920
a story like that and say, eh, who cares? Not interested. Boring. No thanks. You have to have
00:59:44.840
the intellectual depth of a puddle of piss on the bathroom floor, if that's your reaction. No offense.
00:59:51.820
Like you have to be very stupid and very boring. Not the kind of man any woman should want to date.
00:59:57.920
And that is why those historically illiterate men are today canceled.
01:00:05.700
That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed.
01:00:10.040
Republicans are Nazis. You cannot separate yourselves from the bad white people.
01:00:22.420
Growing up, I never thought much about race. It never really seemed to matter that much. At least not to me.
01:00:26.940
Am I racist? I would really appreciate it if you left. I'm trying to learn. I'm on this journey.
01:00:31.360
I'm going to sort this out. I need to go deeper undercover.
01:00:34.140
They're going to say I'm racist. Joining us now is Matt, certified DEI expert.
01:00:40.760
Here's my certification. And what you're doing is you're stretching out of your whiteness.
01:00:44.620
This is more for you than this for you. Is America inherently racist?
01:00:47.160
The word inherent is challenging there. I want to rename the George Washington Monument to the George Floyd Monument.
01:01:02.900
There's a black person right here. Does he not exist?
01:01:09.380
I just had to ask who you are because you have to be careful.