The Matt Walsh Show - August 12, 2024


Ep. 1420 - The Most Awkward And Unintentionally Hilarious Moment In The History Of The Olympics


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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.
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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
00:04:08.660 copyright grounds at this point. Let's watch.
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
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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.
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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.
01:00:52.280 America is racist to its foes. So inherently.
01:00:54.740 Yeah. This country is a piece of shit.
01:00:56.200 White folks.
01:00:59.160 White trash.
01:00:59.680 White supremacy.
01:01:00.460 White woman.
01:01:01.020 White boy.
01:01:01.600 Is there a black person around here?
01:01:02.900 There's a black person right here. Does he not exist?
01:01:06.820 Hi, Robin.
01:01:07.560 Hi. What's your name?
01:01:08.840 I'm Matt.
01:01:09.380 I just had to ask who you are because you have to be careful.
01:01:12.420 Never be too careful.
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