The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1422 - The ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ Racket Is Collapsing In Front Of Our Eyes

00:00:00.000 Today, The Matt Wall Show, the alleged consensus supporting so-called gender-affirming care

00:00:04.620 has totally collapsed.

00:00:05.840 This week, a major medical organization has come out and admitted that they do not endorse

00:00:09.380 these procedures, and the evidence supporting the procedures is low quality, they say.

00:00:13.760 Also, the White House struggles to name one single policy achievement of Joe Biden or

00:00:17.500 Kamala Harris.

00:00:18.640 Tim Walls is finally forced to respond to the stolen valor allegations, and Colin Kaepernick

00:00:23.140 announces that he still wishes to be enslaved by the NFL, if only any team will take him

00:00:27.320 at the age of 37.

00:00:28.240 We'll talk about all that and more today on The Matt Wall Show.

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00:02:00.460 Consensus is a word that you hear a lot these days.

00:02:03.240 And when you hear it, there's a good chance you're being told to keep quiet about something.

00:02:06.440 For example, you might notice that celebrities are flying an awful lot for people who claim

00:02:10.940 to be concerned about climate change.

00:02:12.840 You might find it odd that politicians like Barack Obama are buying up giant seaside properties

00:02:17.300 if they think the oceans are about to rise and wipe entire continents off the face of

00:02:21.300 the earth.

00:02:22.060 Then you might notice that average temperatures in your area haven't changed much in the past

00:02:26.580 century.

00:02:27.620 And that all seems quite odd.

00:02:29.860 These kinds of observations might lead you to question whether man-made climate change

00:02:34.340 is really a big deal or if it's even happening at all.

00:02:38.220 And I'm responsibly told that your questions are irrelevant.

00:02:41.120 They're an affront to science, in fact, because a consensus has already been reached among experts.

00:02:45.540 The blessed consensus.

00:02:48.400 And one of the effects of this kind of consensus is that it signals to everyone else in the

00:02:53.100 field, the experts, so-called, that they need to fall in line immediately.

00:02:57.800 Even if they disagree with the consensus view, they understand that they need to keep quiet

00:03:01.960 or else they'll face professional consequences.

00:03:04.520 So a declaration of consensus can quickly become self-reinforcing.

00:03:08.920 To outsiders, it appears that an entire field is united when really it's not.

00:03:13.800 Again and again, we've heard that there's a consensus among professional medical associations

00:03:19.320 that these procedures are medically necessary.

00:03:22.700 Everyone from the HHS secretary to the ACLU and the DOJ and everyone in between have made

00:03:28.900 that claim repeatedly in state and federal courts, as well as the media and in every other

00:03:33.440 form available to them.

00:03:35.160 And with a handful of exceptions, virtually all of them overseas, no major professional medical

00:03:40.900 association has stepped up to correct the record and clarify that there, in fact, is no consensus.

00:03:48.060 Well, this week, that trend finally came to an end.

00:03:51.880 So it turns out that all journalists, you know, all they really had to do was ask some professional

00:03:57.700 medical associations about their views on gender surgeries for adolescents.

00:04:01.360 And if they had done that, the facade of consensus would have come crashing down.

00:04:06.560 Well, that's exactly what Lior Sapir, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute, decided to do.

00:04:10.880 He reached out to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, or ASPS, which represents more than 11,000

00:04:17.280 members and 90% of the field of plastic surgery across the U.S. and Canada.

00:04:21.920 It is also obviously a field that's deeply involved in gender-related surgeries on both adults and

00:04:27.860 minors.

00:04:28.300 So, you know, their view on this would seem to matter.

00:04:32.140 And Sapir wanted to know what the ASPS thought about so-called gender-affirming care for minors.

00:04:38.320 Well, here's what the Society of Plastic Surgeons sent back.

00:04:42.620 And if you're watching the video, you can see it on the screen.

00:04:45.020 Quote, ASPS has not endorsed any organization's practice recommendations for treatments of adolescents

00:04:51.720 with gender dysphoria.

00:04:53.160 ASPS currently understands that there is a considerable uncertainty as to the long-term efficacy

00:04:57.840 for the use of chest and genital surgical interventions for the treatment of adolescents

00:05:01.800 with gender dysphoria.

00:05:03.280 And the existing evidence base is viewed as low-quality slash low-certainty.

00:05:09.460 Wow.

00:05:10.780 So, in other words, there is, in fact, no consensus among major medical organizations about any form

00:05:18.180 of so-called gender-affirming care for minors.

00:05:20.780 And the people that claimed there was a consensus, including the media outlets that claimed there

00:05:26.820 was a consensus, they never even asked these medical organizations whether they agree with

00:05:33.440 this or not.

00:05:36.780 They just heard from the other media outlets that there is a consensus, and they were all

00:05:41.880 telling each other about the consensus, and then they went and reported it to the public.

00:05:44.920 And meanwhile, no one turned around and asked all these medical experts what they actually

00:05:49.460 think about it.

00:05:51.000 That's what happened.

00:05:52.800 And that's a lie that's been repeated by the Biden administration and the media repeatedly,

00:05:57.240 but it's not true.

00:05:59.760 And again, all it took to establish that it wasn't true is for one fellow at the Manhattan

00:06:04.220 Institute to just ask the Plastic Surgeons Association about this.

00:06:08.740 They apparently weren't going to volunteer the information, because on top of this, they're, 0.98

00:06:15.640 of course, enormous cowards.

00:06:17.000 But when asked, they're willing to say in writing that they don't endorse any of these alleged 0.97

00:06:23.100 treatments for children.

00:06:25.080 That's how flimsy the consensus on these gender experiments really is. 1.00

00:06:30.180 Now, this admission from ASPS has massive ramification for procedures that are underway right

00:06:35.280 now in the United States.

00:06:36.700 As City Journal notes, the WPATH standards, which pretty much all major hospitals follow,

00:06:42.340 doesn't specify any strict age minimum for gender surgeries.

00:06:45.600 These are standards that the Biden administration has also defended in federal court.

00:06:49.120 And these standards have been put into practice, apparently, without the endorsement of a major

00:06:53.720 medical association like the ASPS that, again, represents doctors who are the ones who would

00:07:01.620 be performing these procedures.

00:07:03.380 An analysis by the Manhattan Institute, using data from a national insurance database from

00:07:10.060 2017 to 2023, found evidence that roughly 5,000 to 6,000 double mastectomies have been 0.84

00:07:15.560 performed in this country on girls under the age of 18 in the name of so-called gender-affirming

00:07:20.960 care.

00:07:21.280 And at least 50 of those girls were apparently under the age of 13.

00:07:24.620 And that last part bears repeating because it's so horrific.

00:07:29.540 In dozens of cases, girls under the age of 13 have had their breasts removed in order to 0.95

00:07:35.380 affirm their gender.

00:07:38.380 So these are numbers that both medical associations and politicians routinely lie about, but they're

00:07:45.600 verifiable.

00:07:46.600 And if anything, they're undercounting the actual number of these procedures.

00:07:50.100 The insurance database doesn't capture out-of-pocket procedures at all, for example.

00:07:54.320 And in some cases, there's reason to believe that hospitals are coding these procedures to

00:07:59.080 suggest that they're not related to gender dysphoria, even when they clearly are.

00:08:02.960 So the numbers that you're hearing, you should put an asterisk.

00:08:05.940 And really, it's at a minimum, these are the numbers.

00:08:09.300 For instance, as the Manhattan Institute notes, there's been a nearly seven-fold increase in the

00:08:15.960 number of so-called non-binary mastectomies that have been performed on minors from 2017 to 2023.

00:08:21.500 And these are mastectomies that are intended to make the patient look non-binary, whatever

00:08:25.740 that means.

00:08:26.240 Actually, we know what it means.

00:08:27.300 It means that these are girls having their bodies permanently surgically altered to look 1.00

00:08:32.360 roughly more masculine, even though these girls don't even actually identify as boys.

00:08:38.480 They identify as some other category with no clear definition at all.

00:08:46.220 The number of these procedures went from 70 in 2017 all the way up to 470 last year.

00:08:54.040 And City Journal found that, quote, plastic surgeons who perform these procedures leverage

00:08:58.180 the existing billing code for breast reduction, a practice some might argue amounts to insurance

00:09:02.980 fraud.

00:09:03.420 Based on this new revelation from ASPS, insurance fraud might be the least of these doctors'

00:09:10.760 problems.

00:09:11.880 These procedures could also potentially amount to massive jury verdicts and settlements for

00:09:16.420 medical malpractice and even intentional fraud, which isn't covered by most providers' insurance

00:09:21.320 policies.

00:09:21.760 That's because consensus is actually a critical concept in medicine.

00:09:25.640 If a doctor treats a patient and ends up harming the patient, it's still very hard to sue the

00:09:31.060 doctor if he can demonstrate that he was following an established standard of care that everybody

00:09:36.220 agrees on.

00:09:37.440 But if the doctor goes rogue and disregards the view of major medical associations like, say,

00:09:43.520 the ASPS, then there's potentially a lot more liability at play.

00:09:47.860 As malpractice lawyer Kevin Keller told City Journal, medical providers could potentially

00:09:53.160 be looking at more than $10 million in liability for each individual case involving these gender

00:09:58.180 procedures, money they'd likely have to pay out of pocket.

00:10:01.240 So this is an existential threat to this entire fraudulent industry.

00:10:06.640 And it's a threat that's becoming much more pronounced lately.

00:10:09.580 For several months now, there have been other signs that the House of Cards, that is gender 0.71

00:10:15.300 affirming care, quote unquote, is about to come crashing down.

00:10:18.920 There was the CAST report to the National Health Service in England, which found that there's

00:10:23.380 no good evidence justifying any common interventions concerning gender identity.

00:10:28.600 Then there was the ruling in the Sixth Circuit Court upholding Tennessee's ban on the castration

00:10:32.980 of children over the objections of the Biden administration and the ACLU.

00:10:36.960 There were also the leaked WPATH files, which exposed internal communications, which WPATH

00:10:41.620 officials admitted that they didn't know what they were doing in many of these cases or

00:10:46.640 what the long-term effects would be.

00:10:48.460 And there was the declaration from the American College of Pediatricians, a relatively small

00:10:51.980 group, which called on all major medical organizations to stop the promotion of social affirmation,

00:10:57.700 puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries for children and adolescents who experienced

00:11:02.140 distress over their biological sex.

00:11:04.600 And that's a quote from them.

00:11:06.960 All of these developments have taken place in the last year.

00:11:11.620 So that's how quickly the alleged consensus in this field of, quote unquote, gender affirming

00:11:17.320 care has broken down.

00:11:20.560 It's just completely shattered on the floor at this point.

00:11:23.440 Even as the number of people who might seek to access these procedures is increasing.

00:11:29.760 Gallup just found that nearly 8% of adults currently identify as LGBTQ+, which is a significant

00:11:36.460 jump from 5.6% just four years ago.

00:11:39.540 And as the Postmillennial reports, many of these new additions to the alphabet umbrella are

00:11:43.740 young people.

00:11:44.480 Quote, for each generation, a person is about twice as likely to identify as LGBTQ as opposed

00:11:49.680 to the generation before.

00:11:51.320 And of course, many of these young people, particularly the ones who identify as transgender, are very 1.00

00:11:56.700 likely to seek out hormones, surgery, puberty blockers, or some combination of those things.

00:12:02.380 This is a trend that's only possible because of a manufactured, artificial, totally fraudulent

00:12:11.220 consensus of alleged experts.

00:12:13.560 It's a social contagion that has depended on the silence of people who know better.

00:12:19.460 And with the statement this week from the Plastic Surgeons Association, as unlikely as it was,

00:12:23.720 any pretense of a consensus is now gone completely.

00:12:28.900 It has been demolished as if it never existed because it didn't.

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00:13:47.660 This is from a couple of days ago, but I think it's worth talking about briefly.

00:13:51.880 The Daily Wire reports, White House Press Secretary Karen Jean-Pierre came up empty when asked

00:13:56.040 by a reporter on Monday to name a specific policy achieved by Vice President Kamala Harris.

00:14:01.040 Harris, who has yet to hold a press conference since becoming the Democratic nominee, has been

00:14:04.780 slammed for her record on the border crisis after being tasked by President Joe Biden to

00:14:08.280 address the root cause of illegal immigration.

00:14:10.180 The Vice President held numerous rallies over the past week, but has not put forward a campaign

00:14:15.840 platform, even with the DNC just one week away.

00:14:19.880 So Karen Jean-Pierre has asked, just like, what are some of her achievements, actual policy

00:14:26.820 achievements?

00:14:27.960 And here's how that exchange went.

00:14:29.720 Listen.

00:14:29.820 What does the President see as the Vice President's biggest achievement during their time in office

00:14:36.640 together?

00:14:36.920 So look, because they've been partners, those achievements have been done, certainly those

00:14:41.540 historic, unprecedented achievements have been done together.

00:14:44.220 I'll say this, the President believes in the Vice President's leadership, her temperament,

00:14:48.960 her experience.

00:14:49.760 And he is, and he has said this himself, one of the proudest decisions that he made in 2020

00:14:58.020 was selecting her as Vice President because he believed that she can move, can go on day

00:15:01.840 one.

00:15:02.600 And you've seen that, you've seen them do that together on day one of this administration.

00:15:07.900 That doesn't change.

00:15:09.500 I'm, I'm not going to parse out anything from here.

00:15:13.580 They have been partners.

00:15:14.820 She's been a critical partner for this President, for, for during this term, and will continue

00:15:21.060 to do so.

00:15:21.740 You will see them together on Thursday in Maryland, where they would talk about their

00:15:26.320 next announcement on lowering costs for the American people.

00:15:29.900 So there's not a specific policy achievement.

00:15:31.500 It's a comprehensive hold.

00:15:32.980 I would say it's a comprehensive hold.

00:15:35.300 So it's actually pretty incredible that the fact that she can't name any specific policy

00:15:40.940 achievement at all, not even one.

00:15:43.420 And this should not be a trick question.

00:15:45.140 And the reporter who asked it wasn't even trying to trip her up.

00:15:49.200 He even bails her out at the end.

00:15:50.740 He says, oh, so it's more of a comprehensive hold then, you would say.

00:15:55.060 And she's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, sure.

00:15:56.720 Comprehensive hold.

00:15:57.340 Right, right, yeah.

00:15:58.840 So he didn't see this as an embarrassing question.

00:16:01.000 He thought it was a softball.

00:16:02.920 He was trying to serve her up something easy.

00:16:05.800 And, and it is a softball, but she still whiffed on it because there's, there are no policy 0.99

00:16:11.800 achievements at all.

00:16:12.620 Um, so she's like, you know, it's like a performance review with a lazy, redundant

00:16:19.140 employee who just sits at his desk and stares at the wall all day.

00:16:22.440 So you can ask, what have you been doing for the past six months on the job?

00:16:26.900 Oh, you know, well, look, I'm not going to parse out all the things I do every day.

00:16:32.500 It would be impossible to describe every detail.

00:16:35.060 I mean, there's so many details of so many things I've done, but, you know, I, I've, I've, I've, I've, you know, I'm working, I'm laboring, exerting, toiling, if you will, doing my tasks, performing my duties, completing my assignments, working on my projects, working on my, my, my work.

00:16:54.860 I've been very productive, uh, producing products and, you know, that's Karen Jean Perry.

00:17:03.460 I don't, I don't blame her for BS, BSing.

00:17:05.620 Uh, what other choice does she have?

00:17:06.780 But she's also so bad at it and yet she got the job anyway. 0.68

00:17:12.420 And it still comes down to the fact that there are no policy achievements at all, even while the media, uh, tries to wildly overcompensate for this fact, but for the fact that they haven't achieved anything, wildly overcompensates by, by saying that not only has the Biden administration achieved things,

00:17:30.420 but it is actually the most legislatively accomplished presidential administration in American history, potentially, or modern American history.

00:17:40.120 You know, the most accomplished administration in the last 100 years, you hear stuff like that.

00:17:46.160 And if that were the case, then it should be pretty easy to say, oh, okay, well, the most accomplished, well, can you just give me one or two?

00:17:53.500 Just one, one would be good.

00:17:57.000 And, uh, she can't do it.

00:17:58.500 Uh, and, uh, Kamala Harris is not going to put herself in a position where she has to answer that question, which is why she has done no press conferences, uh, done no real interviews where she's going to be asked real questions at all. 1.00

00:18:17.320 Meanwhile, I just saw, and I, I, I think that this is true, that, uh, Donald Trump is, from what I saw just on Twitter a second ago,

00:18:26.680 has announced another press conference that he's going to do, uh, tomorrow or some, at some point this week.

00:18:33.480 And he just did a press conference last week.

00:18:37.040 So Donald Trump is out there.

00:18:38.720 I mean, he's doing interviews.

00:18:40.040 He's, he's, he's, he's doing the rallies.

00:18:41.560 He's showing up on, uh, live streams.

00:18:44.000 He was just talking to Elon Musk on Twitter for like two hours.

00:18:48.140 He's like long flow.

00:18:49.560 And you could say all you want.

00:18:51.040 And of course they were with the, with the Elon Musk and Donald Trump conversation, of course, people on the left were saying, oh, it's a, that's a softball.

00:18:58.760 Elon Musk is on his side.

00:19:01.480 They're ideologically aligned.

00:19:04.380 Which is like, okay.

00:19:05.760 Oh, so you mean literally every time a Democrat politician talks to anyone in the corporate media?

00:19:10.820 So it's like that.

00:19:11.500 And even so, even when you're talking to somebody ideologically aligned, the two hours is a long time to have a conversation.

00:19:21.040 I'd love to see Kamala Harris even pick the most friendly interviewer in the world. 1.00

00:19:24.800 They're all friendly to you in the corporate media.

00:19:27.000 And talk to them for two hours live.

00:19:30.440 Because it doesn't matter how much they're on your side.

00:19:32.880 It's just like you, over two hours, you have to, you can't avoid answering questions for two hours.

00:19:43.500 So Trump has been doing that.

00:19:44.900 And now I guess he has another press conference coming up.

00:19:47.200 I'm probably in the minority among conservatives.

00:19:49.460 I don't think that Trump should do any more press conferences.

00:19:53.240 Like why put yourself in a position where you're allowing a hostile press to take free shots at you?

00:20:00.000 If your opponent isn't doing any press conferences at all?

00:20:03.400 Like she's not going to do any and you're going to keep, you're going to do one a week?

00:20:08.040 Why do it?

00:20:08.680 Now I understand you're drawing a contrast here.

00:20:11.320 But the contrast has already been established.

00:20:13.780 Like it's pretty clear that Trump is willing to go out there and talk to people.

00:20:17.160 And Kamala Harris isn't. 0.56

00:20:18.440 That's, there's no question.

00:20:19.500 Like that contrast, yes, absolutely.

00:20:21.900 It has been very clearly illustrated to anyone who's willing to notice it.

00:20:27.260 I don't think you have to keep doing the press conferences though and allow the media to just like keep taking shots at you like that.

00:20:35.540 If you're running against someone who's just going to hide away in her basement until it's time to get up and give prepared remarks at a rally.

00:20:45.860 All right, Walls, Tim Walls finally sort of responded to the stolen valor charges.

00:20:51.720 Here's what he said.

00:20:52.240 Then in 2005, I felt the call of duty again, this time being serviced to my country in the halls of Congress.

00:21:00.040 My students inspired me to run for that office.

00:21:02.700 And I was proud to make it to Washington.

00:21:05.040 I was a member of the Veterans Affairs Committee and a champion of our men and women in uniform.

00:21:14.600 I'm going to say it again as clearly as I can.

00:21:16.960 I am damn proud of my service to this country.

00:21:19.160 And I firmly believe you should never denigrate another person's service record.

00:21:30.320 Anyone brave enough to put on that uniform for our great country, including my opponent?

00:21:35.340 I just have a few simple words.

00:21:37.960 Thank you for your service and sacrifice. 0.94

00:21:41.120 This guy is such a snake. 1.00

00:21:43.260 He's such a liar. 0.99

00:21:44.120 I mean, he claims that his service record is being denigrated, which is that's like if I claim that I was an astronaut who went to the moon and a real astronaut came by and said, no, you didn't. 0.96

00:21:57.360 You've never been to space.

00:21:58.560 You've never even like seen a rocket ship in real life, much less been on one.

00:22:03.820 You're a podcaster, not an astronaut.

00:22:05.540 And then if I responded, well, how dare you?

00:22:07.960 You should never denigrate a fellow astronaut.

00:22:11.140 We're part of the astronaut brotherhood.

00:22:13.500 I would never talk about you that way.

00:22:16.820 Well, yeah, I would never accuse.

00:22:18.480 It wouldn't make sense for me to accuse you of not being an astronaut because you are.

00:22:21.900 But I'm not.

00:22:22.680 That's the point.

00:22:23.300 So they're not denigrating Tim Walls and his record as a as a combat veteran.

00:22:32.980 The point is, he doesn't have that record.

00:22:35.720 No one's denigrating combat veterans.

00:22:37.740 They're denigrating him for saying that he is one when he isn't.

00:22:42.540 Which is actually kind of like the opposite of denigrating, you know, veterans and someone's military service record.

00:22:51.080 It's a respect for veterans.

00:22:52.880 It's a respect for people in the military when you take it seriously that someone's lying about it.

00:22:59.600 So that's that's what they're going to go with anyway.

00:23:03.460 But I think the fact that Tim Walls feels the need to address this at all shows that it is.

00:23:10.080 You know, that this attack, this attack, which is simply which is true, pointing out that he's guilty of stolen valor.

00:23:17.400 It shows that it is a landing that he has to.

00:23:19.560 He can't just ignore it.

00:23:20.480 Which is certainly what he'd prefer to do if he could.

00:23:24.420 Also want to play this on the subject of Tim Walls.

00:23:26.560 Here's Lisa Hansen, a small business owner in Minnesota who was shut down and eventually arrested by Tim Walls during COVID.

00:23:37.380 Let's hear what she has to say.

00:23:38.620 When COVID happened.

00:23:41.760 And in the state of Minnesota, my business, so it was located in the state of Minnesota, southern Minnesota.

00:23:48.380 It was a lovely wine and coffee bistro.

00:23:51.660 And it had been an operation for going on eight years by the time that my business was shut down and destroyed.

00:23:59.980 And when I say it was destroyed, I'm speaking of the being shuttered and not being able to survive that because of what Tim Walls, Governor Tim Walls and Attorney General Keith Ellison did to me and to my business, as well as our employees.

00:24:15.380 And so what happened is with the first shutdown, we didn't really know what to do, what was going on, and we did comply.

00:24:22.020 And I hate to say that, you know, looking back at everything I've stood for, but we did comply because we didn't know what else to do.

00:24:29.020 He never fully opened up the state to point this out.

00:24:31.720 Who did he shut down?

00:24:33.320 Governor Walz shut down only some of the businesses.

00:24:36.640 The essential businesses got to stay open.

00:24:38.640 So I guess that means that we were a non-essential business, but so he shut down bars, restaurants, gyms, dance studios, hair salons, et cetera.

00:24:51.640 Who did he not shut down?

00:24:53.520 Who were the essential business owners that would have been your big box stores with hundreds and hundreds of people coming to visit through their doors a day, mingling and being close?

00:25:04.480 He did not shut down liquor stores.

00:25:06.180 He did not shut down strip clubs.

00:25:08.920 So we opened up.

00:25:10.180 I can't tell you for sure how long we were open, but immediately within 24 to 48 hours, the state came down on us with a vengeance.

00:25:19.600 They attacked me, a woman small business owner, as well as other small business owners in the state of Minnesota.

00:25:26.480 They came down.

00:25:27.620 They sent the health department down.

00:25:29.220 They sent everything they could against us.

00:25:31.660 They employed all of their resources against we, the people.

00:25:37.040 I went to court.

00:25:38.400 I was found guilty.

00:25:40.040 I was given a sentence to 90 days, which was the max sentencing.

00:25:44.280 And I was also fined $1,000, which was the max fine for this supposed thing that I did where I was standing on my rights.

00:25:54.200 So that's how much Tim Wall supports small business owners, how much he supports female business owners, that he arrested one, not just one, but this one, along with many others, for the crime of opening their business and trying to make money to feed their families.

00:26:13.580 And this is the same guy, remember, who said, mind your own business.

00:26:17.420 That was his line about anyone.

00:26:18.540 Anyone who attacks him, mind your own business.

00:26:21.540 Well, you certainly weren't minding your own business when Lisa Hansen tried to open her store and, God forbid, make some money to take care of her family. 1.00

00:26:32.220 And this is the most depressing thing about this.

00:26:35.120 And this is maybe one of the most, as the kids would say, one of the most black-pilling things. 0.99

00:26:39.520 I don't know if the kids say that anymore.

00:26:40.880 Is that black pill, red pill?

00:26:42.360 It might just be a millennial thing.

00:26:43.400 I don't know if the kids are carrying on that torch or not.

00:26:45.980 But anyway, black pill is the fact that COVID and everything that happened during COVID and the lockdowns and everything, the fact that it seems to be politically irrelevant at this point, which rewind the clock for years when COVID was all that was happening in the world.

00:27:08.700 And it was all that anybody was talking about.

00:27:10.240 And it had totally taken over all of our lives.

00:27:17.120 Whether we liked it or not, and none of us did, totally taken over all of our lives.

00:27:22.960 They're shutting down businesses.

00:27:24.360 You can't leave your house.

00:27:25.260 You've got to wear a mask, right?

00:27:26.800 And if you could rewind the clock back three or four years and someone had told you that in the next election, in 2024, this won't matter at all.

00:27:42.400 Like, no one's going to care about any of this.

00:27:45.460 It will have no impact.

00:27:46.380 And all the people responsible for doing it, responsible for this, people doing this to you, they'll face no political ramifications whatsoever.

00:27:57.800 If anyone had told you that four years ago, you wouldn't have believed it.

00:28:03.340 But that's where we are.

00:28:05.480 Maybe that can change.

00:28:06.900 I hope that it can.

00:28:09.360 Okay?

00:28:09.580 Because this was not, this is not ancient history.

00:28:11.640 This didn't happen 100 years ago.

00:28:14.200 We all lived through it.

00:28:15.420 And if, if this is now irrelevant, the fact that he was putting business owners in jail for opening their business, if we allow that to be completely politically irrelevant, then, I don't know, shame on us.

00:28:34.840 This was a fun moment.

00:28:36.060 Caitlin Collins is an anchor at CNN, was on Stephen Colbert's show for some reason.

00:28:39.820 I have no idea why a CNN anchor was a guest on The Late Show, but she was. 1.00

00:28:44.960 It's hard to imagine a more boring, less entertaining guest, but there she was. 0.99

00:28:49.100 And actually, something entertaining did happen, much to the chagrin of both Colbert and Collins.

00:28:54.880 Let's watch.

00:28:56.440 Trump has kind of been thrown on his heels by this, and he's not really sure how to go after Vice President Harris.

00:29:02.300 He knew his attack lines on President Biden.

00:29:05.220 He really has struggled with how to, how to go after someone who's 20 years younger than him, who is a different gender, a different race.

00:29:11.900 It's kind of been this moment where he has not been able to coalesce around a single attack line.

00:29:18.160 I know you guys are objective over there, that you just report the news as it is.

00:29:23.060 Oh, I know.

00:29:23.980 CNN makes a, I know.

00:29:25.340 Is that supposed to be a laugh line?

00:29:26.660 It wasn't supposed to be, but I guess it is.

00:29:29.600 That is truly humiliating.

00:29:35.360 Colbert calls CNN objective and the audience laughs.

00:29:37.760 And here's the thing.

00:29:38.720 The audience isn't even laughing maliciously or sarcastically.

00:29:43.540 They honestly thought that it was a joke.

00:29:46.680 They assumed quite fairly that someone would only say that if they meant to be funny.

00:29:51.860 And that was probably the first laugh they got the whole show.

00:29:56.600 It's like Stephen Colbert does not say funny things very often.

00:30:00.180 And I think that they were relieved.

00:30:02.120 They said, finally, a moment of levity in this comedy show.

00:30:06.080 And they laughed.

00:30:07.420 And because in their minds, hearing someone say CNN is objective, it's like hearing someone say,

00:30:13.940 the DMV is a lot of fun.

00:30:19.080 People interpret that as inherently absurd.

00:30:21.420 You must be joking if you're saying that.

00:30:25.920 Because it is inherently absurd.

00:30:28.660 The more interesting thing to me is that Colbert didn't realize that the audience would find the comment funny.

00:30:36.680 Right?

00:30:37.160 In his world, CNN actually is an objective news source.

00:30:43.020 So think about that for a moment.

00:30:45.220 Really reflect on that.

00:30:47.200 Imagine how delusional, how ensconced in your own bubble,

00:30:51.080 you have to be to see CNN as anything but a propaganda outlet.

00:30:54.900 Even if Colbert himself likes CNN, how does he not realize how everyone else sees it?

00:31:02.960 That's the remarkable thing.

00:31:04.060 I mean, we use the phrase out of touch a lot, but here it really applies.

00:31:08.760 These people are out of touch.

00:31:10.260 Just it cannot be overstated, the degree to which they are out of touch.

00:31:16.580 And everybody's in their own bubbles to a certain extent, you could say.

00:31:19.840 I'm surrounded by lots of conservative people all the time.

00:31:23.720 So I have my own bubble in that sense, just like we all do.

00:31:28.000 But I'm exposed enough to other perspectives that I know how the left thinks.

00:31:33.380 I know how they perceive things.

00:31:36.460 I know, for instance, that if I was in front of a crowd that included liberals,

00:31:40.100 it would be a laugh line for me to say that Fox News is the most objective cable news channel.

00:31:47.880 Like, I wouldn't be surprised.

00:31:50.640 It would not surprise me for people to laugh at that.

00:31:52.880 I understand that that's how Fox News is perceived, especially in the liberal world.

00:31:59.160 Now, I happen to believe that Fox News actually is the most objective and the fairest of all the cable news channels,

00:32:05.940 TV news in general.

00:32:08.920 Low bar.

00:32:09.940 It's a low bar to get over, but still.

00:32:11.660 Yet, I know that to about half the country, such a claim is seen as downright hysterical.

00:32:17.020 I'm aware of that.

00:32:19.360 And it's amazing that someone like Stephen Colbert doesn't have that level of understanding.

00:32:26.700 Or any understanding at all.

00:32:27.880 Which also explains why his show just isn't funny.

00:32:30.420 Why he's not an effective comedian at all.

00:32:34.600 And it's the contempt he has for people that he disagrees with politically.

00:32:40.620 But even more than the contempt, it's just he doesn't understand most of the country.

00:32:48.640 And so you can't...

00:32:51.620 It's hard to make comedy that appeals to most of the country and is funny to most of the country

00:32:56.840 if you don't understand the people that you're talking to.

00:32:58.920 You don't understand your own audience.

00:33:03.220 Recently, Elliot Page, the artist formerly known as Ellen Page, sat down for a little interview

00:33:10.100 with a publication called Them for an interview series called Queer Roots.

00:33:14.800 And I want to play this about a minute-long clip of Paige talking about her first, quote,

00:33:22.000 queer crush. 0.87

00:33:24.460 And there's a fact that a lot we can kind of glean from this and learn from this, but here it is.

00:33:30.660 If I really, really think back, it was probably the older sister in Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.

00:33:40.340 You too?

00:33:42.000 Yes.

00:33:43.320 What was her...

00:33:44.040 Amy Zielinski.

00:33:45.200 Amy Zielinski.

00:33:46.540 I'm very certain.

00:33:47.860 This actually is not to be like my book, the barf, but I do write about it in my book.

00:33:53.240 I mean, who doesn't love Honey, I Shrunk the Kids just as a cinematic masterpiece, of course.

00:33:57.460 Truly, what a spectacle, right?

00:33:59.320 Riding a giant ant?

00:34:02.040 Please.

00:34:02.660 Stumbling upon a monstrous Oreo cookie?

00:34:07.120 Like, the whole sequence with the sprinklers and the...

00:34:11.480 I mean, really quite a stunning motion picture.

00:34:15.060 Well, she's really pretty, you know, really gorgeous.

00:34:19.340 Just the way she dressed was really cool.

00:34:21.120 There was a casualness.

00:34:22.080 There was a looseness.

00:34:22.920 There was some flannel action, and the character was so caring and thoughtful.

00:34:31.220 Yeah, I guess, like, clearly moved me and captivated me.

00:34:37.680 First of all, that was not an Oreo.

00:34:39.760 That was a...

00:34:41.040 There was an oatmeal cream pie, I believe.

00:34:43.760 So, some 90s kid you are, Ellen.

00:34:47.760 Now, I find this clip interesting and quite tragic and quite sad, because it shows in just 60 seconds why you cannot escape your true sex, your true biological identity. 0.70

00:34:59.860 Paige has obviously had surgeries and taken drugs and gone out and purchased a new wardrobe to try to present herself as a man. 1.00

00:35:06.280 But she really doesn't come close.

00:35:09.620 Like, she doesn't even come within a mile of looking, sounding, presenting as a man.

00:35:14.180 I mean, nobody, not one person, no one, sees her as a man.

00:35:19.580 Nobody.

00:35:21.260 Doesn't look like one.

00:35:23.220 Certainly doesn't sound like one.

00:35:25.740 Doesn't have the mannerisms of a man.

00:35:28.280 Doesn't have the personality of a man.

00:35:30.040 She has not succeeded in capturing any aspect of manhood at all.

00:35:38.220 She transitioned from an attractive woman to a mutilated woman who sounds like she has chronic laryngitis. 1.00

00:35:46.860 That's the transition.

00:35:49.480 And it goes deeper than the looks and the voice, because listen to what she's saying.

00:35:54.600 If you could put aside the appearance and the sound of the person who was doing the talking here, just to show you how much of a woman she still is,

00:36:05.360 that even if you read, you didn't see any of the visuals, you didn't hear any of it, you just read that interview.

00:36:11.460 And you know who it was with.

00:36:14.780 And I just, I gave you the quote.

00:36:18.540 You would immediately know, oh, that's a woman speaking.

00:36:20.700 Just from the text, just from the content of what she's saying.

00:36:26.560 Even though she's talking about being attracted to a woman.

00:36:30.580 But from the way she talks about it, you would read that and know, oh yeah, that's definitely, that's like, that's a lesbian woman talking for sure. 1.00

00:36:39.380 Even though it doesn't really make any sense, like why is this her queer crush? 0.63

00:36:43.840 If she is a heterosexual male, which is what we're told, then that wasn't a queer crush at all, right? 0.59

00:36:49.920 That's a heterosexual male crush.

00:36:54.600 But, be that as it may, even the phrases she uses, the way she speaks, the way she sees the world, it's all very womanly, very feminine.

00:37:05.900 Okay, so she catches herself promoting her book and says, ew, barf. 0.86

00:37:10.760 No man in the history of mandom has ever said, ew, barf.

00:37:16.020 It's never happened.

00:37:16.980 I defy you, I defy you to find me one man who's ever used that phrase.

00:37:22.460 You can't find it.

00:37:23.580 It's never happened, ever.

00:37:26.240 And then, while trying to explain why she had a crush on this girl from the movie,

00:37:31.240 first she kind of like sheepishly calls her pretty.

00:37:33.680 You know, because men are always shy about saying that girls are pretty.

00:37:38.760 She says, oh, because she's, she's pretty. 0.92

00:37:42.340 She's like a little embarrassed to say it.

00:37:45.720 Because, you know, men, when they're talking about like celebrities and actresses that they think are hot,

00:37:49.080 they don't want to, they feel a little embarrassed to say it out loud.

00:37:53.040 But then she talks about how the girl dressed.

00:37:56.860 She liked how casual she was.

00:37:59.940 She liked the flannel action.

00:38:03.400 Again, no man in history.

00:38:05.020 I know this is, it's a strong statement.

00:38:06.600 It might seem like hyperbole.

00:38:07.720 But no man in history has ever been describing a woman that he finds attractive.

00:38:11.240 And in, in, in, as part of that description, uses the phrase, oh, she's got that flannel action. 1.00

00:38:21.700 Yeah, dude, that, you know, that girl, she's real hot. 1.00

00:38:24.240 She's got that, she's, listen, she's got that flannel action. 0.77

00:38:27.580 You got to see this girl's flannel action. 0.99

00:38:31.280 And then, and then most of all, she talks about how the character was caring and thoughtful.

00:38:36.980 You know, just like dudes always say, that's a guy thing for sure.

00:38:39.740 Just one of the bros, one of the bros, you know, you know,

00:38:44.040 whenever a guy's commenting on an actress that they find attractive,

00:38:46.900 the first thing they always say is that it's because she's caring and thoughtful.

00:38:53.140 Total bro move, if you ask me.

00:38:57.420 I mean, if I went up to any guy and, you know,

00:39:02.380 asked them what actress they find attractive and they say,

00:39:06.760 Sydney Sweeney.

00:39:07.640 And then I asked them why.

00:39:10.600 They would definitely say, oh, dude, it's because she's, 1.00

00:39:13.560 she's so caring and thoughtful.

00:39:17.000 Plus, I love her flannel action.

00:39:19.560 Those, those are the main things.

00:39:22.580 So now, of course, we can joke about it, but it's, it's really tragic.

00:39:25.740 It's, it is, it is actually a tragedy.

00:39:28.860 Ellen Page is still Ellen Page through and through.

00:39:31.300 She's still very much a woman, fully, fully a woman.

00:39:37.760 But she's a woman who's been destroyed and will never be the same again.

00:39:43.360 Which is also why you notice the other thing that's very revealing about the Ellen Page,

00:39:48.860 now Elliot Page story, is that, and this is an interesting fact, isn't it?

00:39:53.740 That Elliot Page has never been cast as the male lead in a film.

00:40:01.840 That's an odd fact, isn't it?

00:40:03.280 I mean, she's a male, she's a man.

00:40:07.000 As far as I know, and maybe the show she's on right now,

00:40:10.640 what's it called?

00:40:11.060 Umbrella Academy or something like that?

00:40:12.620 Some superhero thing.

00:40:13.340 I think her character's trans.

00:40:15.780 She's playing a trans person.

00:40:17.040 But if, if Elliot Page is a man all the way through, then

00:40:23.900 why couldn't she play the male lead?

00:40:27.780 And like an action film or any kind of film, a drama.

00:40:33.020 It's never going to happen.

00:40:35.060 It's never going to happen because nobody could watch that and take that seriously.

00:40:40.160 I don't care how woke you are.

00:40:41.800 I don't care you got pronouns in your bio, your trans acceptance, you fly the trans flight.

00:40:45.740 I don't care.

00:40:46.280 I don't care.

00:40:48.160 You know and I know that you could never watch a movie with quote unquote Elliot Page starring as the male lead.

00:40:56.960 You could not do it.

00:40:59.880 Suspension of disbelief.

00:41:01.500 You have to have a certain amount of that watching any movie.

00:41:04.640 But it only goes so far, right?

00:41:06.740 The suspension only holds up for so much.

00:41:10.200 And you get to a certain point where it's like, I can't.

00:41:13.280 No, it's, it's just, it's, maybe if it's like a slapstick, absurdist comedy, maybe you could get away with it.

00:41:24.140 But even then, probably not.

00:41:26.840 Because every single person in the world, like I'm making a point about Ellen Page that will be treated as, just like anyone else who said similar things.

00:41:41.060 It's treated as controversial, provocative, and that sort of thing.

00:41:46.380 But it's actually, everything I've said about Ellen Page, every single person listening to this right now or who will ever see this clip agrees with it.

00:41:55.220 Every single person.

00:41:55.980 And we all know that.

00:41:59.100 The only difference is that some of us are willing to say out loud what we know is true.

00:42:04.360 Which is that this woman is not a man.

00:42:06.540 She doesn't pass for one. 1.00

00:42:07.540 She can never be one.

00:42:09.520 It's absurd.

00:42:10.260 It is a, it is grotesque and absurd. 0.53

00:42:16.840 This pageant that she is putting on, pretending to be a man. 1.00

00:42:21.800 And it's pathetic. 1.00

00:42:24.580 I say that not as an insult, but as a, it's like, it is pathetic. 0.99

00:42:27.600 I feel sorry. 0.97

00:42:28.960 It's pitiful.

00:42:29.780 I have pity.

00:42:31.520 Every single person knows that.

00:42:32.700 We all feel the same way about it.

00:42:36.240 About half of us are willing to say it out loud.

00:42:38.120 The other half is, you know, has decided to play along with the charade.

00:42:45.260 That's the difference.

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00:43:27.860 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:43:29.240 When we last heard from Colin Kaepernick, he was publicly throwing his adoptive parents

00:43:39.680 under the bus for being white and therefore racist.

00:43:42.900 He was also appearing in videos that directly compared playing in the NFL to slavery, only

00:43:47.920 to turn around and beg NFL teams to hire him just a few months later.

00:43:50.960 This is one of those side-by-side clips that it's worth re-watching for a couple of reasons.

00:43:56.080 One of them is that it's hilarious and never gets old.

00:43:59.020 The other is that, like everybody else in the country, you've probably forgotten all about

00:44:03.740 this clip because you've wiped everything related to Colin Kaepernick from memory.

00:44:08.300 So just to refresh our memories, here's a little side-by-side comparison clip.

00:44:15.440 Let's watch it.

00:44:16.240 They don't want you to understand is what's being established is a power dynamic.

00:44:24.300 Before they put you on the field, teams poke, pride, and examine you, searching for any defect

00:44:31.920 that might affect your performance.

00:44:34.080 No boundary respected.

00:44:36.560 No dignity left intact.

00:44:46.240 Come on, boys, hurry up.

00:44:50.520 Look at that shape there.

00:44:52.000 Look at this.

00:44:54.220 Mr. Farber, I got your bid.

00:44:56.020 30, James.

00:44:56.800 30 to you.

00:44:57.780 100.

00:44:58.480 So, next one coming up, best one we got.

00:45:03.640 500.

00:45:04.200 500.

00:45:05.600 600.

00:45:06.700 Yeah.

00:45:09.520 Look at this here.

00:45:11.140 Come on, who wants this?

00:45:14.300 700.

00:45:14.960 There we go now.

00:45:16.240 Looked up.

00:45:17.220 1,000.

00:45:18.560 We want to make sure that we come out, we show everyone I can still play, still throw

00:45:23.020 it, and really just looking for an opportunity for a door to open, to have that be a pathway

00:45:31.120 to be able to get back in there, get a starting job, and lead a team to a championship.

00:45:36.780 And that's your message right there.

00:45:38.020 But if there's an NFL scout, any member of an NFL organization watching you today, what

00:45:42.940 is your message directly to them after the years that you have been off the, on the, off

00:45:47.360 the field, what is your message to NFL teams?

00:45:49.780 That I can help make you a better team.

00:45:52.240 I can help you win games.

00:45:53.660 Look, we're really just out here trying to get, trying to become slaves.

00:45:59.300 You know, really, really just looking to be a slave.

00:46:01.860 And listen, my message to teams out there is, I want to be your slave. 0.95

00:46:06.020 I want to be, you can enslave me. 0.98

00:46:07.760 I'd be a great slave for you. 0.99

00:46:11.680 I'm really well equipped to be a slave. 0.82

00:46:14.420 Just get me up on that auction block, and I'm there.

00:46:17.720 And let's go win a championship, okay?

00:46:19.300 Let's go win. 0.82

00:46:20.020 I'll go, I'll beat the other slaves. 0.81

00:46:21.820 The other slaves got nothing on me.

00:46:23.800 I'll defeat all the other slaves in the slave competition.

00:46:27.080 And I'll frankly be the greatest slave.

00:46:29.160 I'll be the best slave.

00:46:30.460 I could still be, I still could be one of the best slaves that's in, of all of slavedom. 1.00

00:46:37.760 That's what he said.

00:46:41.760 Now, when I posted this video on Twitter a couple of years ago,

00:46:44.520 even Kaepernick's defenders were stunned by the utter shamelessness of it.

00:46:48.620 There's really no way to come back from a clip like that.

00:46:51.180 Once you compare a career in the NFL to being a slave,

00:46:54.800 you can't turn around and say that you really want to play in the league again and be a slave.

00:46:59.120 People will tolerate a lot of hypocrisy these days, but that's a bit much for most people.

00:47:04.800 And it was around this point that BLM types started to realize

00:47:07.640 what everybody knew for a long time, which is that everything about Colin Kaepernick is fake.

00:47:12.200 He's the single greatest con artist to ever play in the NFL. 0.77

00:47:15.080 He's the greatest con artist in the history of professional sports.

00:47:18.360 So he disappeared.

00:47:20.140 And the rest of us began focusing on things that are more important than Colin Kaepernick,

00:47:23.440 which is a list that is quite literally endless.

00:47:26.620 But Kaep was unfazed.

00:47:28.080 He did not retreat into obscurity to preserve whatever dignity he might have left.

00:47:32.440 Instead, apparently, he set his sights on rejoining the NFL.

00:47:36.180 That's what Kaep says he's been doing for the last two years,

00:47:38.420 trying to get back into the league that dumped him nearly eight years ago

00:47:41.660 when he was a middling backup quarterback.

00:47:44.700 So here's an interview with him from just this week.

00:47:47.700 And again, this guy's like 38 years old now.

00:47:52.160 Here's what he said.

00:47:53.920 Will we see you play NFL again?

00:47:56.700 We're still training, still pushing.

00:47:58.560 So hopefully we just got to get one of these team owners to open up.

00:48:03.220 What would it mean to you to play NFL again?

00:48:08.560 I mean, it's something I've trained my whole life for.

00:48:10.660 So to be able to step back on the field, I think that would be a major moment,

00:48:14.800 major accomplishment for me.

00:48:17.460 Also, I think it's something that I could bring a lot to a team

00:48:20.980 and help them win a championship.

00:48:23.440 It'd be a major moment to step back into being a slave again.

00:48:27.220 Get back out on the plantation would be a major moment.

00:48:31.480 Major moment for me, major moment for the plantation.

00:48:34.380 And I'm ready to do it. 0.95

00:48:35.740 I'm ready to be a slave.

00:48:37.660 He says, I think I could bring a lot to a team

00:48:39.400 and help them win a championship.

00:48:40.720 And this is a quarterback who hasn't thrown a pass in an NFL game

00:48:44.480 since New Year's Day of 2017.

00:48:47.340 He's training every day to play professional football,

00:48:49.620 which at this point is just as delusional as me training every day

00:48:54.000 to play professional football.

00:48:55.900 We've reached a stage of this story where Kaepernick is playing very much

00:48:59.480 the role of like an obsessive ex-girlfriend still pining after a man 1.00

00:49:04.000 who got married, had kids, hasn't thought about her in a decade.

00:49:06.960 If he wasn't such an obnoxious narcissist, you might even feel some pity for him. 0.72

00:49:11.780 In the same way that you might feel pity for like a tone-deaf singer 0.96

00:49:14.700 embarrassing himself during an American Idol audition. 0.98

00:49:18.000 But Kaepernick is an obnoxious narcissist, in fact. 0.92

00:49:21.260 So, and he doesn't actually believe anything that he says. 0.93

00:49:25.220 He doesn't believe when he says the NFL is like slavery,

00:49:28.760 just like he doesn't actually believe the police are racist. 0.98

00:49:32.140 Kaepernick is a fraud who only knows how to do one thing, 0.92

00:49:34.540 which is to say the right things at the right time to maximize his relevance 0.97

00:49:38.820 and therefore his income.

00:49:40.660 At least historically, he's been good at that at least.

00:49:45.060 He's a bad storyteller at a time when bad storytellers,

00:49:48.800 for some reason, are in demand.

00:49:50.260 And as if to point, to put as fine a point on that as possible,

00:49:53.180 Colin Kaepernick just launched an AI company

00:49:55.180 that promises to help creators tell fictional stories.

00:49:59.320 And we're not making that up.

00:50:00.440 But Colin Kaepernick, like Google and ChatGPT before him,

00:50:03.680 is getting into the generative AI game.

00:50:06.700 He actually pushes his new company in the same interview

00:50:09.380 where he says he wants to get back into the NFL.

00:50:11.940 Watch.

00:50:13.420 What are you doing at the moment?

00:50:14.720 Tell us a bit about your new company as well.

00:50:17.160 Yeah, so just started a new company.

00:50:19.540 It's called LumiStory AI.

00:50:21.720 You know, we are focused on using Gen AI

00:50:24.300 to help creators create better.

00:50:25.940 So create their stories independently,

00:50:28.880 help them publish them, help them merchandise them,

00:50:32.060 do that all on one platform.

00:50:34.120 Our vision is the future looks like

00:50:36.420 every individual creator being like Disney.

00:50:40.520 That last line sounds like more of a threat than a promise.

00:50:44.200 Our vision is every individual creator being like Disney.

00:50:47.680 Imagine that.

00:50:48.720 We can have total uniformity in all cultural output.

00:50:51.720 Even the work of independent small-time creators

00:50:54.880 will be indistinguishable from the slop

00:50:56.680 that megacorporations produce.

00:50:58.760 Hallelujah.

00:51:00.200 All these creators need to do

00:51:01.280 is download Colin Kaepernick's AI app.

00:51:03.600 And at the click of a button,

00:51:04.700 they too can auto-generate content

00:51:06.740 featuring strong trans lesbian lead characters 0.98

00:51:10.500 and racist white people.

00:51:11.800 Who could resist a future like that? 0.98

00:51:14.680 Now, apparently, a lot of venture capital firms

00:51:17.640 can resist it

00:51:18.440 because Kaepernick's company

00:51:20.000 has reportedly only raised $4 million so far.

00:51:23.280 And that money is coming from

00:51:24.300 notoriously talented investors

00:51:25.740 such as Chameleon Air.

00:51:28.280 And that's not exactly encouraging

00:51:30.120 since Kaepernick's competitors

00:51:31.420 are companies like Google,

00:51:33.140 which have access to billions of dollars.

00:51:35.780 And Google has already made an AI

00:51:37.240 that doesn't recognize the existence of white people.

00:51:39.380 They call it Gemini.

00:51:40.740 It was a whole episode.

00:51:41.920 You might remember it.

00:51:42.640 So how can Kaepernick, of all people,

00:51:44.280 possibly innovate in this space

00:51:45.840 with just $4 million?

00:51:47.320 Well, based on an interview

00:51:49.560 that Kaepernick recently did with Bloomberg,

00:51:51.280 there's actually no plan for innovation here.

00:51:53.560 His company, Lumi,

00:51:55.100 isn't going to do anything

00:51:56.020 that other AI programs aren't already doing.

00:51:58.480 His boldest claim appears to me

00:51:59.800 that Lumi will enable people

00:52:01.200 with no talent whatsoever

00:52:02.820 to create content

00:52:04.080 involving writing and illustrations,

00:52:07.180 meaning comic books,

00:52:08.260 from what I can tell.

00:52:09.620 So people who are illiterates

00:52:11.740 with no drawing talent whatsoever

00:52:13.020 can pay Colin Kaepernick,

00:52:14.600 and then they'll be competing

00:52:15.940 with Disney just like that.

00:52:17.080 This is the latest scam

00:52:18.320 that Kaepernick is pushing.

00:52:20.000 Watch.

00:52:21.500 The interesting part is

00:52:23.060 sometimes creators have gaps in their skills.

00:52:26.400 So sometimes illustrators,

00:52:27.880 they need help with writing.

00:52:29.920 Or writers,

00:52:31.320 they need help with generating images.

00:52:34.280 And if you're a creator like me

00:52:36.280 who doesn't have either of those skill sets,

00:52:38.640 we'll help you with both of those

00:52:40.420 to get to a final product

00:52:41.980 from an original idea.

00:52:43.460 Sometimes creators have gaps

00:52:46.820 in their skill sets.

00:52:48.080 For instance,

00:52:48.560 sometimes creators can't create.

00:52:52.480 Sometimes the gap in their skill set

00:52:53.900 is that they can't do anything at all.

00:52:56.820 And Kaepernick admits

00:52:57.700 that he's one of those creators.

00:52:59.680 He's a creator who can't write

00:53:00.900 or draw or do anything.

00:53:02.200 So how is he creating anything at all?

00:53:05.920 He cannot do anything.

00:53:08.280 Well, he just let the computer do it.

00:53:11.000 And at that point,

00:53:11.800 how are you even the creator

00:53:13.240 if you just start pressing a button?

00:53:15.500 Like, computer, do that.

00:53:17.180 Oh, here it is.

00:53:20.060 You're not really a creator.

00:53:21.200 The computer is the creator,

00:53:22.360 not you.

00:53:22.660 Anyway,

00:53:25.500 so just like Colin Kaepernick,

00:53:26.980 you too can profit

00:53:27.880 from being a complete talentless hack.

00:53:30.440 You can make millions of dollars

00:53:31.440 without having any skills whatsoever.

00:53:33.300 That's the official sales pitch

00:53:34.740 for Lumi,

00:53:35.340 direct from the guy

00:53:36.280 who founded the company

00:53:37.180 and who now says that

00:53:38.560 at 37 years old,

00:53:40.020 I think,

00:53:40.960 he can take an NFL team

00:53:42.180 to the Super Bowl.

00:53:43.960 Speaking of Kaepernick's NFL plans,

00:53:45.480 I listened to the whole interview

00:53:46.420 and strangely enough,

00:53:47.700 there's no discussion

00:53:48.800 of what happens to Lumi

00:53:49.840 as a company

00:53:50.420 if Colin Kaepernick

00:53:51.140 somehow manages to rejoin the NFL.

00:53:53.720 Wouldn't that be a big problem

00:53:54.660 if the company's founder

00:53:55.600 gets picked up

00:53:56.260 and makes a run for the Super Bowl?

00:53:58.420 Seems like a material issue

00:53:59.560 for potential investors to consider,

00:54:01.100 but nobody cares

00:54:01.640 because everyone,

00:54:02.400 including Kaepernick,

00:54:03.020 knows that that's not going to happen.

00:54:04.880 He will never play in the NFL again

00:54:06.280 and he knows that,

00:54:08.420 but he can't stop himself

00:54:09.320 from lying about it.

00:54:11.440 And that's unfortunate by itself,

00:54:13.240 but the bigger problem

00:54:14.680 for Kaepernick

00:54:15.220 is that his faux victimization grift

00:54:17.460 seems to be drying up.

00:54:20.000 That's why he's reduced

00:54:20.920 to shilling for AI companies

00:54:22.380 like every other 0.91

00:54:23.120 talentless con artist

00:54:24.120 in the Bay Area.

00:54:25.640 And, you know,

00:54:26.760 that might be a positive sign

00:54:28.080 for the rest of us.

00:54:29.800 Kaepernick chose

00:54:30.420 to be a racial martyr 0.96

00:54:31.500 instead of having

00:54:32.180 the long and profitable career

00:54:33.680 of a second string NFL bench writer

00:54:35.380 that he could have had.

00:54:37.460 For a while,

00:54:38.220 it was looking like

00:54:38.760 he made a smart business decision.

00:54:40.600 Book deals,

00:54:41.340 Netflix shows,

00:54:42.160 et cetera,

00:54:42.660 came pouring in,

00:54:43.960 but that doesn't last forever.

00:54:46.140 And now Kaepernick

00:54:46.820 is a middle-aged man

00:54:47.920 with nowhere to go.

00:54:49.540 He's telling a story

00:54:50.580 about returning to the NFL

00:54:51.640 that's so unbelievable,

00:54:52.980 so trite,

00:54:53.600 so derivative

00:54:54.140 that his AI program

00:54:56.220 might as well

00:54:56.620 have come up with it.

00:54:58.740 And that is why,

00:54:59.740 thankfully,

00:55:00.260 he will never again

00:55:01.580 be relevant.

00:55:02.280 And that is also why

00:55:03.200 Colin Kaepernick

00:55:04.080 is today,

00:55:05.560 not for the first time,

00:55:06.480 but hopefully for the last,

00:55:08.560 canceled.

00:55:09.800 That'll do it for the show today.

00:55:10.560 Thanks for watching.

00:55:11.060 Thanks for listening.

00:55:11.700 Have a great day.

00:55:12.260 Godspeed.

00:55:13.260 We'll be right back.

00:55:43.260 Here's my certification.

00:55:44.980 And what you're doing

00:55:45.400 is you're stretching

00:55:46.100 out of your whiteness.

00:55:47.680 This is more for you

00:55:48.260 than less for you.

00:55:48.680 Is America inherently racist?

00:55:50.240 The word inherent

00:55:51.200 is challenging there.

00:55:52.180 I want to rename

00:55:52.740 the George Washington Monument

00:55:53.740 to the George Floyd Monument. 0.97

00:55:55.340 America is racist 0.98

00:55:56.200 to its bones. 0.99

00:55:57.120 So inherently.

00:55:57.800 Yeah. 1.00

00:55:58.200 This country is a piece of shit. 1.00

00:56:01.160 White folks. 1.00

00:56:02.220 Trash. 1.00

00:56:02.740 White supremacy. 1.00

00:56:03.520 White woman. 1.00

00:56:04.100 White boy.

00:56:04.660 Is there a black person around?

00:56:05.960 There's a black person right here.

00:56:07.300 Does he not exist?

00:56:09.900 Hi, Robin.

00:56:10.620 Hi.

00:56:11.000 What's your name?

00:56:11.920 I'm Matt.

00:56:12.360 I just had to ask who you are

00:56:13.460 because you have to be careful.

00:56:15.500 Never be too careful.

00:56:17.200 In theaters September 13th.

00:56:18.580 Rated PG-13.

The Matt Walsh Show - August 14, 2024

Ep. 1422 - The ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ Racket Is Collapsing In Front Of Our Eyes

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