The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1517 - The Gender Ideology Movement Is Now Exploiting The Disabled For Clout

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00:02:35.580 One of the ways that trans activists have been able to sell gender ideology to mainstream audiences is by hiding its consequences.

00:02:43.380 They would rather use sanitized terms like gender-affirming surgery and gender-affirming care as opposed to actually showing people what these procedures entail in real life.

00:02:53.200 In that sense, gender activists have a lot in common with abortion advocates.

00:02:57.400 They'll throw a million euphemisms against the wall, but they definitely don't want you to see what this stuff is in practice.

00:03:04.360 They don't want you to see an abortion in practice because once any moral, sane person witnesses something as grotesque and abhorrent as an abortion, they'll oppose it immediately.

00:03:13.860 No amount of political indoctrination will convince them otherwise.

00:03:16.340 And by the same token, trans activists have generally understood that nobody wants to actually see these gender-affirming procedures or their immediate aftermath that they talk about so much.

00:03:26.560 They know that support for trans ideology would collapse if more people observed what exactly this butchery entails. 1.00

00:03:33.280 Indeed, support for trans ideology has collapsed precisely for that reason.

00:03:39.080 But there are some activists who are so committed, so brainwashed, that they can't help themselves.

00:03:46.980 They are the true believers of the religion to the point that they genuinely can't perceive how even the most shocking barbarism will come across to everyone else.

00:03:57.960 So they film it and they advertise it.

00:04:00.440 They revel in the kinds of horrors that will shake any morally decent person to his core.

00:04:05.860 And that's why millions of people have just become familiar with an Instagram account called Disabled Trans Boy.

00:04:13.700 It's everywhere on the internet at the moment, largely due to reporting by Sarah Fields, Andy Ngo, Billboard Chris, and a few others.

00:04:21.240 The account belongs to somebody using the name Micah Leroy with he, him pronouns listed.

00:04:26.580 The channel's description reads,

00:04:27.780 Now, before I play some videos from this account, I want to make it clear that this is a very troubling story.

00:04:40.460 The details and kind of the full picture are emerging gradually thanks to the journalists I just mentioned.

00:04:45.340 And then finally, the Daily Mail, which I'll get to in a few moments.

00:04:48.720 So I'm going to present the information as we currently have it.

00:04:53.420 Over the past several weeks, the Disabled Trans Boy account has uploaded videos that appear to document the process of a 19-year-old woman who is disabled obtaining a quote-unquote gender-affirming double mastectomy so that she looks less feminine.

00:05:12.600 This is someone who has cerebral palsy, a disorder that severely affects motor control.

00:05:17.940 It also is a disorder associated, in many cases, with a significant degree of cognitive impairment.

00:05:24.620 And yet this person was able to obtain, apparently, top surgery.

00:05:29.900 A doctor permanently altered her body with irreversible surgery, despite the fact that she is very severely disabled.

00:05:38.460 Now, here's the most recent video on the account, which, again, is extremely hard to watch.

00:05:42.500 So if you're watching the video version of this podcast and you have any kids in the room with you at the moment, I would pause the show and come back to it when they're not around.

00:05:50.820 Because this, as I said, is deeply disturbing.

00:05:53.000 But it's what's happening right now in this country.

00:05:56.420 So here it is.

00:05:57.960 It's so unimaginably horrific that your first reaction,

00:06:27.940 or hope, anyway, is that it must be some kind of bizarre hoax.

00:06:32.780 I mean, you want to conclude that there's no way that any doctor would agree to perform this procedure or that somebody would film any of this proudly and put it on the Internet.

00:06:44.480 It seems like it has to be some kind of setup, or maybe it's being taken out of context, you might think.

00:06:50.120 You may wonder whether this young woman actually had a double mastectomy because she had breast cancer or something.

00:06:56.620 But that does not appear to be what happened here.

00:06:59.600 All of the evidence, including a Daily Mail interview with this disabled woman and her family that we'll get to in a moment,

00:07:05.440 clearly indicates that, indeed, doctors removed the breasts of a disabled young woman in order to try to turn her into a boy.

00:07:14.440 And this video is not a one-off.

00:07:16.540 There are posts documenting this woman's journey.

00:07:19.700 There's one video, for instance, which was uploaded just prior to the double mastectomy being performed.

00:07:24.720 It's from December of last year.

00:07:26.180 The description reads, quote,

00:07:27.600 It's the night before top surgery.

00:07:29.180 I'm so effing excited.

00:07:30.480 After one month, I'll be free.

00:07:32.820 Bye.

00:07:33.260 And there's content like this going back for several years.

00:07:37.220 One post from May of 2023, for example, reads,

00:07:39.820 I'm so excited to get my name changed on my birth certificate.

00:07:42.160 Another caption appears next to this image from March 2023, which shows the girl in a parking lot.

00:07:48.960 And the caption reads, quote,

00:07:50.440 I saw a doctor today that said that I'm almost ready to get on tea.

00:07:54.300 Hashtag transgender pride.

00:07:55.860 Hashtag queer disabled pride. 0.94

00:07:57.860 Hashtag FTM.

00:08:00.140 There's only one comment under the image.

00:08:01.880 It reads, quote,

00:08:03.000 Awesome.

00:08:03.760 Everyone should be able to live as their true self.

00:08:06.860 A few weeks later, there's a bunch of posts documenting her use of testosterone.

00:08:10.760 And then there's this footage in which someone who identifies as autistic persuades this, quote,

00:08:17.580 disabled trans individual to touch a pot, even though the pot says that disabled people shouldn't touch it. 0.99

00:08:24.540 Watch. 0.63

00:08:26.480 I'm Amelia.

00:08:28.440 Micah.

00:08:29.440 This is Micah.

00:08:31.200 I bought him a plug and pop for college.

00:08:35.080 Number four on the instruction packet.

00:08:37.900 Hold on.

00:08:38.860 I'm finding it.

00:08:39.660 He gets a hoot out of this.

00:08:42.020 Says, do not let people with disabilities or children approach the pot to avoid burns. 0.98

00:08:49.660 Micah has CP, among others.

00:08:51.960 I have autism.

00:08:53.080 We're going to touch this pan.

00:08:54.420 Yeah.

00:08:54.760 So, I mean, the whole thing is just painful to watch, so we'll just cut it off there.

00:09:02.660 She's clearly being used for clout by activists who don't care about her. 1.00

00:09:06.500 And she clearly doesn't have the capacity to consent to any of this stuff, even as an adult.

00:09:12.760 Spoiler alert, in case you're interested, they both do touch the pan.

00:09:15.560 I mean, the reason why you wouldn't want someone like that touching a pot like that is that it gets really hot, and she obviously does not have full use of her extremities. 1.00

00:09:26.000 And so trying to manage a very hot pan like that could cause severe burns.

00:09:31.640 It's not ableism.

00:09:32.960 It's just the reality.

00:09:34.180 Now, the woman's name, before she or her parents changed it, was Mara J. Leroy, and she's from Minneapolis.

00:09:43.200 Andy Ngo reports that Mara's mother is, unsurprisingly, a DEI-slash-anti-Trump activist who is, quote, extremely woke and has involved her child in her leftist activism.

00:09:54.320 She's been separated from the girl's father for some time.

00:09:57.200 Surprise, surprise.

00:09:58.240 And Billboard Chris reports that the divorce was finalized about two years ago.

00:10:02.300 So, Ngo says that Mara was medically transitioned, quote, unquote, in high school, presumably as a minor, prior to receiving this double mastectomy.

00:10:12.560 And the Instagram account that we were just looking at would certainly support that reporting.

00:10:17.260 Ngo also reports that a state representative named Alicia Lish-Klazowski was recently photographed with Mara and her mother to celebrate legislation that would advance gender-inclusive restrooms, among other left-wing agenda items.

00:10:30.100 And here's that image.

00:10:31.740 And as you can see, Mara and her mother appear to be in the bottom corner there, along with the legislator who uses they-them pronouns, by the way.

00:10:40.280 And since these videos and images began going viral, this legislator hasn't responded in any way.

00:10:45.780 I mean, this is how normalized all this insanity is in left-wing jurisdictions like Minneapolis.

00:10:50.480 Democrat politicians openly, of course, supporting it.

00:10:52.660 And then there's this from the journalist Sarah Fields.

00:10:55.120 She found this post from the Disabled Trans Boy account from a year ago.

00:11:00.680 And as you can see, it reads, quote,

00:11:03.420 This literally changed my whole life in five minutes, being there my first year of YIG, because before I had no idea about pronouns, but now look at me.

00:11:13.740 Close quote.

00:11:14.240 Y-I-G, in case you're unfamiliar, stands for Youth in Government.

00:11:18.340 It's a YMCA program that puts high schoolers and middle schoolers in model governments in states across the country.

00:11:25.040 And apparently, with support from the government, they are indoctrinating disabled children into gender ideology. 0.95

00:11:31.580 I mean, you heard it just there.

00:11:32.540 You saw it in the caption.

00:11:34.180 I don't know about any of this stuff.

00:11:35.440 And now I'm into it.

00:11:38.500 I'm fully bought in.

00:11:40.320 Late last night, the Daily Mail picked up this story.

00:11:42.720 They reached out to the disabled woman and her family to kind of get their side of the story here.

00:11:48.400 And I'm going to read a section of this article.

00:11:52.000 The kicker comes at the end.

00:11:54.760 So stick around.

00:11:56.240 Quote,

00:11:57.000 A transgender teen with cerebral palsy who went viral after posting about her breast removal surgery has told DailyMail.com that she knew what she was doing and is happy with her choices.

00:12:07.300 Michael Leroy, 19, a University of Minnesota student, had a double mastectomy last month and shared footage about the procedure.

00:12:12.720 And her painful but swift recovery on Instagram.

00:12:15.620 Those videos exploded on conservative social media on Thursday with critics calling Micah a victim who should not have been greenlighted for a sex change because of her disability.

00:12:25.380 But speaking with DailyMail.com, Micah said she had a long history of gender identity issues and that she is glad she provoked a reaction because she wanted to blow up the internet.

00:12:35.160 Micah's case raises tough questions about whether disabled people and minors should be allowed to take puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones and undergo sex change operations.

00:12:43.380 Micah's disability, cerebral palsy, affects movement and muscle control.

00:12:47.000 She's able to speak and write for herself, get straight A's in college, and is involved in state politics.

00:12:51.480 I am making these decisions, said Micah.

00:12:54.280 I am my own legal guardian.

00:12:56.460 And people don't understand that.

00:12:59.020 Now we'll get to the kicker because, you know, you might hear that she's able to speak and then you get these very clear quotes.

00:13:08.260 I'm making my own decisions and it might seem a little bit odd to you because we just played the video of this person and it seems pretty apparent from that video that she really can't speak.

00:13:20.460 You know, we just heard it.

00:13:22.080 So what do you mean she can speak and communicate?

00:13:25.380 Well, this is, here it is.

00:13:28.360 Daily Mail reports this.

00:13:29.600 Micah can speak on her own, but was aided in this interview by her mom, Kathy Leroy, who was effectively translating her words.

00:13:40.200 Ah, okay then.

00:13:42.800 Micah explained how she's not being exploited and coerced by her parents.

00:13:46.820 And we know that because her parents translated and told us that that's what she said.

00:13:53.240 Now, needless to say, the doctors and parents in this situation deserve to be in prison.

00:13:58.120 This is one of the most horrific cases of abuse of the disabled that we've ever seen.

00:14:02.940 I mean, this is, it shocks the conscience.

00:14:07.300 That is, if you actually have a conscience.

00:14:09.780 Which explains why trans activists see this not as shocking and horrific and the sort of thing that should send multiple people to prison, 1.00

00:14:17.040 but as something wonderful and worth boasting about.

00:14:20.280 Now, as terrifying as all this is, you might be tempted, if you're extremely naive, to kind of dismiss this story as an aberration,

00:14:28.960 as not reflective of the gender transition industry broadly.

00:14:31.560 You might say, for example, that some doctor must have gone rogue here to perform this operation on someone who's so clearly disabled.

00:14:40.500 But that's not the case.

00:14:42.620 As the Post Millennial reported several years ago, leading experts in the field of so-called trans medicine have said that autistic nonverbal minors can consent to sex changes.

00:14:52.400 In fact, there was a conference recently featuring a lead author on the WPATH transgender guidelines in which this very topic was discussed.

00:14:58.760 Quoting from the Post Millennial,

00:15:00.840 Some of the world's leading experts in transgender health care convened in San Francisco.

00:15:06.100 Psychiatrist Dan Karasik delivered a talk titled,

00:15:10.040 Managing Patients with Co-Occurring Mental Health Diagnoses.

00:15:14.080 And in the audience was none other than Dr. Diane Aronsaft, a leading figure in the field of child sex changes,

00:15:20.120 who shared baffling anecdotes about nonverbal children expressing their gender identities.

00:15:25.240 The Post Millennial says it obtained audio of the talk,

00:15:29.560 in which, quote, Karasik can be heard asserting that severe autism should not prevent a person from being approved for an experimental medical sex change,

00:15:38.640 dismissing the common concern of parents that a fixation on gender is due to the intense focus of interest typical of autism spectrum disorder,

00:15:45.680 and engaging in the bizarre exchange of ideas about youth communicating their transgender identity through drawing.

00:15:50.540 In other words, the bleeding edge of so-called trans medicine is that children who can't even speak 0.99

00:15:58.340 are somehow capable of revealing that they're born in the wrong bodies.

00:16:04.680 And of course, this is a fundamental tenet of trans ideology.

00:16:07.180 They often talk about recognizing, quote, trans children shortly after birth.

00:16:11.220 But this ideology is now being put into practice in a new way.

00:16:16.240 It's resulting in irreversible surgeries for young people, even severely disabled and impaired young people,

00:16:22.600 which are being broadcast on Instagram.

00:16:25.560 Now, yes, it's true that the woman in these videos is not a minor legally.

00:16:30.580 She's 19 years old, according to the reporting we have.

00:16:33.580 She was brought into the sex change pipeline as a minor. 0.95

00:16:37.540 And then shortly after she became an adult, the surgery was apparently done.

00:16:42.520 She may be suffering from a crippling disability, and she may be extremely easy to coerce and manipulate. 1.00

00:16:48.740 But according to leading experts in the field of gender-affirming care,

00:16:52.880 she can consent somehow to having her body permanently disfigured.

00:16:56.700 So this is a story that underscores, once again, the need to abolish all of these so-called gender-affirming surgeries, 1.00

00:17:07.240 regardless of the victim's age.

00:17:10.120 Whether you're over the age of 18 or not,

00:17:12.780 it is still unspeakably evil to remove the healthy body parts of people who are confused about their identity.

00:17:18.760 The gender transition industry does not suddenly become ethical just because the patient happens to be 18 years old.

00:17:27.360 Regardless of the person's age, they're still being manipulated and led into doing things which have consequences that they do not fully comprehend.

00:17:37.280 And the result, as you saw, is horrifying beyond all imagining.

00:17:42.060 The truth is that nobody, regardless of disability or mental capacity or lack thereof,

00:17:50.100 should be subjected to medical experimentation and disfigurement.

00:17:54.800 So once we outlaw the mutilation of children, the next step is to ban it for everyone.

00:18:00.600 Protecting kids, as I've always said, is only step one.

00:18:04.080 Step two is to take down the whole industry entirely, every piece of it, and leave nothing standing.

00:18:10.060 A full ban across the board, regardless of age, regardless of circumstance, is the only way.

00:18:18.320 It is the only way to end this wickedness once and for all.

00:18:23.500 Now let's get to our five headlines.

00:18:30.880 Let's start with this, because why not?

00:18:33.120 It's Friday.

00:18:34.020 Kathy Hocule gave her state of the state address for New York a couple of days ago.

00:18:38.760 And I could give that address very quickly.

00:18:42.700 The state of the state is that it's bad.

00:18:44.800 Things are bad. 0.71

00:18:45.800 You've got psychotic hobos running wild on the subway. 1.00

00:18:49.440 You've got crime, violence, drugs, vigilantes gunning people down in the street.

00:18:53.160 I mean, it's literally Gotham City.

00:18:54.920 So it's bad.

00:18:56.880 But Kathy wanted to distract from that.

00:18:59.500 You know, she wanted to make up for how horrible things are.

00:19:03.880 And she did that by, and I did look this up.

00:19:09.060 This is not a, this is real.

00:19:10.160 This actually happened.

00:19:10.860 This is not a joke.

00:19:12.520 She did that by opening the state of the state address with a dance performance. 0.56

00:19:17.120 Now, not by her, okay?

00:19:19.740 It wasn't quite that bad.

00:19:21.560 She didn't start dancing, but she brought in an allegedly professional dance troupe to 1.00

00:19:26.900 perform for the assembled crowd who thought that they were coming just to a, you know,

00:19:32.740 standard political speech.

00:19:33.940 And instead, they got this.

00:19:36.940 Watch.

00:19:37.720 I got my suit and tie.

00:19:39.660 I'm going to leave it all on the floor tonight.

00:19:41.960 And you got mixed up two nights.

00:19:44.040 Let me show you a group dance. 0.99

00:19:46.520 All dressed up in black and white.

00:19:48.760 And you're dressed in that dress I like.

00:19:51.120 Love is swinging in the air tonight.

00:19:53.140 Let me show you a group dance. 0.99

00:19:55.360 Let me show you a group dance. 0.99

00:19:57.760 Show you a group dance.

00:19:59.200 I'm so proud of.

00:20:01.080 Now we're in the swing of love.

00:20:04.660 Let me show you a group dance. 0.99

00:20:06.900 Show you a group dance.

00:20:08.720 All of our love.

00:20:11.540 There you go.

00:20:12.560 That's a professional dance troupe.

00:20:14.860 These are the pros.

00:20:16.820 They dance for a living.

00:20:18.820 And yet, somehow, they can't dance.

00:20:20.420 I mean, this is a real problem, I have to say.

00:20:22.380 You know, there are just, in my opinion, there are just far too many people dancing these

00:20:26.180 days.

00:20:26.680 And so few of them know how to dance.

00:20:30.600 I mean, there's so much dancing going on.

00:20:33.760 And I just think we need to get a hold on this.

00:20:36.960 We got to do something about it.

00:20:38.880 I'm not saying that people should be banned from dancing generally.

00:20:44.060 I'm not saying that we should outlaw dancing.

00:20:46.220 I'm not like the bad guy from Footloose who, I mean, I never saw Footloose.

00:20:49.840 I don't really know what it's about.

00:20:50.820 But I assume that it's, what is there, the villain wants to outlaw dancing.

00:20:55.340 And then Kevin Bacon is like, no, I'm going to dance.

00:21:00.880 And then he dances and the other guy, I don't know, but it's not that.

00:21:05.040 I'm not saying, but I'm saying that we should only allow those who are qualified to dance.

00:21:11.120 There's just so much dancing happening these days on camera so often for people who don't

00:21:16.880 know what they're doing.

00:21:18.260 And I don't think the rest of us should be subjected to it.

00:21:20.120 It's a public health crisis.

00:21:20.900 It's a public health crisis is what it is that the rest of us have to watch this.

00:21:25.480 So you should have to get a dancing license.

00:21:29.880 You should have to go to a DMV, Dancing Management something.

00:21:38.840 We'll work on the acronym.

00:21:41.160 But you should go to a DMV style place to show off your dance moves and then you get a license.

00:21:46.820 And it expires five years or something.

00:21:49.620 And that performance would be unlawful, unlicensed dancing.

00:21:53.160 And everybody involved would be executed or just sent to prison.

00:22:00.800 I'm just kidding.

00:22:01.320 They would just go to prison.

00:22:04.360 Fox News has this.

00:22:06.800 The FBI has closed its DEI office.

00:22:09.500 Fox News can confirm.

00:22:10.860 In recent weeks, the FBI took steps to close the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, effective

00:22:16.100 by December 2024.

00:22:18.080 The agency didn't specify why it had closed the office, although many Republicans have been

00:22:21.400 critical of it, and it's prioritizing of diversity, equity, inclusion, saying that it overshadowed

00:22:26.000 national security.

00:22:27.680 Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn sent a letter earlier this month to FBI Director Christopher

00:22:31.760 Wray claiming that radical DEI practices had endangered Americans following the New Year's

00:22:37.840 Day terrorist attack in New Orleans.

00:22:39.240 And now with just a few days until Trump officially takes office, they're disbanding the DEI office.

00:22:49.240 Now, and it also says the FBI's Office of Diversity and Inclusion was created in 2012 during the Obama

00:22:57.000 administration with its goal to provide guidance and implement programs that promote a diverse

00:23:00.720 and inclusive workplace that allows all employees to succeed in advance.

00:23:06.560 So it's very encouraging to see that these massive changes are happening already, and Trump still

00:23:11.320 has not officially taken office.

00:23:13.520 DEI is careening rapidly towards the trash bin of history.

00:23:17.060 It's not only being defeated, it's not only being torn down, but it is barely, it is going to be barely

00:23:29.060 even remembered when things are said and done.

00:23:32.560 Because keep in mind, most of these institutions adopted DEI, well, they said with the FBI, it was in 2012,

00:23:38.220 still very recent, but many of these institutions adopted DEI, and it kind of was mainstreamed

00:23:43.560 in the last three, four years.

00:23:48.120 Most people had never even heard of it before then.

00:23:51.700 And soon, nobody will hear about it anymore.

00:23:54.380 And it becomes this weird little blip on the radar, this short and rather bizarre episode of history,

00:24:00.680 which is why the major risk that I can see right now, and the thing that we need to look out for

00:24:07.080 as we head into the coming months and years, the potential problem caused by all of these victories,

00:24:15.020 one after another, politically and culturally, it really has been win after win,

00:24:20.780 and even in the courts.

00:24:25.320 So, but the risk is that it will, as we've discussed, potentially cause a sense of complacency.

00:24:33.720 And that's the one thing we need to guard against, not to rain on the parade or take away from the

00:24:39.200 celebration over the wins.

00:24:40.720 You know, I've said many times, it's important to celebrate the wins.

00:24:43.400 That is an actual thing that we should do.

00:24:44.920 But once we've done that, you got to get back in the game.

00:24:47.780 Because here's the thing, what's important to understand is that,

00:24:52.000 I mean, look at all these things that are crashing and burning right now.

00:24:56.540 Wokeism, DEI, gender ideology, the left-wing race hustle, it's all collapsing.

00:25:02.400 We're landing blow after blow.

00:25:05.520 And so it might feel like society is kind of waking up from a stupor.

00:25:12.280 And people are looking around and going, man, how did I ever support that?

00:25:17.140 I mean, what happened?

00:25:19.000 And some of that is happening.

00:25:21.200 I mean, there are some people who are almost literally waking up.

00:25:24.960 And for those specific people, you don't have to worry about them

00:25:28.500 falling back under these particular spells.

00:25:31.340 So the person who was tolerant of or even actively supportive of something like

00:25:37.260 gender ideology a few years ago, but now sees it as the insanity that it is, 1.00

00:25:42.420 and there are a lot of people in this category,

00:25:44.340 it's very unlikely that that person, a couple of years from now,

00:25:49.180 will be back to being a trans activist again.

00:25:52.480 Because once you wake up and see this stuff for what it is,

00:25:55.880 you can't unsee it.

00:25:58.520 But the point is that the people, the forces that pushed this stuff,

00:26:06.800 the institutions, the powerful people who use these things to manipulate and coerce

00:26:13.400 and gain and retain power, they never believed any of it to begin with.

00:26:18.740 So there's been no revelation for them.

00:26:20.720 They didn't wake up.

00:26:22.880 Right?

00:26:23.320 They knew what they were doing all along.

00:26:24.760 There's been no conversion experience, no revelatory moment for them.

00:26:30.180 And those people still exist.

00:26:31.680 They're not going away.

00:26:33.660 They're not going to say, oh, man, we really screwed this one up and then just go away.

00:26:36.720 No, they're still plotting.

00:26:39.040 They aren't just going to give up their power and influence.

00:26:42.160 So now they're looking for the next DEI, the next gender ideology, 0.95

00:26:47.820 the next COVID, the next George Floyd.

00:26:51.700 All of these events and ideas that they use to manipulate so many people

00:26:55.780 in so many horrifying ways, they're looking for the next one.

00:27:01.340 And the important thing to understand about that is that the next one,

00:27:04.800 when I say the next one, that doesn't mean that we're going to see an exact replay

00:27:10.120 of those particular events and ideas.

00:27:16.760 It's like they say history doesn't repeat, but it does rhyme.

00:27:19.780 And so they're going to look for the thing that rhymes with the thing before,

00:27:22.920 not that is exactly that.

00:27:24.740 So you hear people say, oh, they're looking for their next George Floyd.

00:27:27.180 Um, and certainly they are, but the next George Floyd won't necessarily be

00:27:36.240 just another black guy killed by the cops, where they try to recreate the hysteria that followed.

00:27:43.420 And with that hysteria, they were able to exploit to maximum effect. 0.64

00:27:47.420 Um, now maybe that will be the next George Floyd.

00:27:51.880 They've made some attempts to kind of recapture that magic.

00:27:56.340 Uh, but most likely the next George Floyd is some other kind of singular event taken wildly out of context

00:28:04.960 and used to inflame the resentments and anger of certain groups against others.

00:28:10.500 And, you know, it, it, it doesn't necessarily have to be another quote unquote police brutality event.

00:28:16.320 Um, it's the same thing with COVID.

00:28:18.940 Everyone says, wow, they're looking, what's, what's the next COVID?

00:28:22.020 And yeah, maybe when we talk about the next COVID,

00:28:23.720 it's going to be some other virus disease that they come along and say,

00:28:26.880 oh, you got to quarantine for this.

00:28:29.340 Um, but most likely it won't be that, at least not anytime soon.

00:28:34.620 The next COVID will be, it could be something else.

00:28:37.020 It could be some other kind of thing that they tell us is a public health crisis.

00:28:45.200 And you have to radically, radically change the way that you go about your everyday life because of this thing.

00:28:52.420 Maybe as a virus or maybe as something else.

00:28:56.380 Um, and we've seen this repeat over and over again.

00:28:59.820 That's how they get, that's how they get away with it.

00:29:01.100 That's how they get away with repeating and using the same kind of tools and methods

00:29:06.600 to control people is because if you're not aware and if you're easily manipulated,

00:29:16.220 you'll look at it and you'll say, no, this is totally different from that thing before.

00:29:19.740 This isn't the next George Floyd.

00:29:21.160 What do you mean?

00:29:22.220 This is totally different.

00:29:23.220 So we have to, we, we cannot, um, not become complacent, as I said.

00:29:33.000 All right.

00:29:34.340 Here's a headline from, uh, what is this from?

00:29:36.820 Washington Post.

00:29:38.140 A headline that is supposed to, I guess, sound sinister.

00:29:41.260 Um, the headline is anti-abortion advocates look for men to report their partner's abortions.

00:29:51.060 The article says, as anti-abortion advocates launch legal efforts to stop abortion pills

00:29:58.960 from reaching women in states with bans, they are increasingly turning to one group with

00:30:03.800 uniquely intimate and specific information to help them find cases.

00:30:08.400 Male sex partners of women who decided to end their pregnancies.

00:30:11.520 The strategy propelled a first of its kind lawsuit filed last month by Texas Attorney General Ken

00:30:17.140 Paxton that cited firsthand information from an unnamed biological father to accuse

00:30:22.120 a New York doctor of illegally providing abortion pills to a woman in the Dallas area.

00:30:27.000 Uh, the case was inspired by a report Paxton's office received from the man and emerged as

00:30:31.080 part of a broader abortion law enforcement operation the Attorney General's quietly created

00:30:35.400 that includes searching for potential plaintiffs.

00:30:37.320 Um, this partner-focused approach will shift to a more public phase next month when Texas's

00:30:42.660 largest anti-abortion organization launches an advertising campaign on Facebook and X

00:30:46.180 to reach the husbands, boyfriends, and sex partners of women who have had abortions in

00:30:50.320 the state with the goal of recruiting them to file lawsuits against those who has assisted

00:30:54.600 the women in ending their pregnancies.

00:30:57.780 Um, quote, the strategy right now is to tell dads that if you're the father of a child victim

00:31:02.380 of an abortion, you have legal rights.

00:31:04.520 There may be a way to hold these people accountable.

00:31:06.400 That's according to John Siago, the president of Texas Right to Life.

00:31:11.400 Um, and so that, that's what they're going to be looking to do.

00:31:14.720 And this is what in, of course, the Washington Post reporting and left-wing media in general,

00:31:19.780 this is what they're, um, going to try to portray as this deeply sinister, um, thing.

00:31:26.500 Because, oh, they're, they're trying to get the husbands and boyfriends and sex partners 1.00

00:31:33.620 of women to, uh, you know, to turn around and narc on their own, you know, wives and girlfriends. 1.00

00:31:41.500 Um, no, what's actually happening here is, well, it's exactly what the president of Right

00:31:46.780 to Life in Texas said.

00:31:49.220 It's actually empowering the men who are fathers of these children and who historically, thanks to,

00:32:00.740 to so-called, to so-called abortion rights, have had their, their parenting rights totally stripped from

00:32:08.780 them. You know, if you live in a state where abortion is legal and you're a father, you have 0.67

00:32:16.280 zero rights over your own child. You have zero parenting rights, um, for the first about nine

00:32:25.940 months of that child's existence. Because the first nine months of a child's existence occur in the womb. 0.99

00:32:32.260 And during that time, if you are, as I said, a man in a place where abortion is legal,

00:32:39.240 then you have no parenting rights. You have no parent parental rights whatsoever.

00:32:48.100 Which, which means that to the extent that you, that your child can be killed, can be removed from

00:32:55.400 the earth and you don't even get a vote. And this has obviously been going on for as long as abortion

00:33:04.700 has existed in this country legally. Um, men are, when we talk about the kind of unseen, unheard victims

00:33:16.380 of abortion, um, I mean, all the victims really are unheard. I mean, the, the, the first and primary

00:33:24.160 victims obviously are the children who are unheard, who don't have a voice. Um, but there are also the

00:33:32.320 men who are barely even talked about. Now we do hear even from pro pro-lifers quite often about the,

00:33:42.300 the men who on the other side, on the flip side of this coin are actually pressuring, you know,

00:33:50.640 their wives and girlfriends, uh, to get abortions. So we hear about that and we hear about, we hear

00:33:57.660 those men being condemned constantly and their behavior deserves to be condemned. I mean, that's

00:34:02.320 contemptible, evil, um, those kinds of cases where in fact the, the man wants the abortion to happen

00:34:07.760 even more than the woman does. And the man's pressuring the woman. Now, of course, the difference

00:34:12.540 there is that the man actually has no legal authority to force it. Um, so the woman still has all the 0.97

00:34:19.840 rights in that scenario, but yeah, there are plenty of cases where a man uses other means to

00:34:25.880 pressure a woman to get an abortion. It's an awful thing. So we, we do hear about that. 0.97

00:34:32.180 But we, we hardly ever hear about are the men and there are thousands of them. I mean, at this point

00:34:39.120 through the whole history of legal abortion, this country, probably millions of men who, um,

00:34:44.480 who lost their children and did not want that to happen. We're not supportive of it, did not want

00:34:51.400 it. In fact, even, even, even begged the mother of the child, please don't do this. Don't take my

00:34:59.420 child from me. Who told the mother, I will raise the child and had no voice and no rights and had to 0.94

00:35:07.300 just sit by and watch as their child was killed. And it's, um, and we, these men are almost never

00:35:15.040 acknowledged and are given no recourse. So this is a, what's happening now, uh, at least in Texas will

00:35:26.300 be a, a, a, a, uh, the tiniest little move in the direction of actually giving men some kind

00:35:37.140 of power or at least some recourse when this happens to them. And, um, and that is, uh, a, a very good

00:35:45.480 thing. A very good thing amid a, in, uh, just incomprehensibly awful, uh, situation. All right.

00:35:54.480 We'll lighten things up considerably here. Uh, here's a viral TikTok video that, um,

00:36:03.660 I've been tagged in this a million times and this is the only reason I know about it, but it's, uh,

00:36:07.900 it's got millions of views. And in this case, this is a guy who made a video that, uh, seems to be

00:36:13.660 really resonating with a lot of people. And here he's calling out the, uh, white conservative men

00:36:18.440 who are judgmental of his hobbies. As I said, it's been viewed millions of times.

00:36:24.480 Um, the apparently great insights here in this video. Let's, let's watch it.

00:36:31.120 Why is it that old men, especially old white men and particularly old white conservative men 0.95

00:36:36.560 are so concerned with what other men do in their own free time. I'm sitting in the sauna today.

00:36:42.000 And since your phone will explode, if you bring it in there, I bring books or comic books in to

00:36:46.320 entertain me because I'm in there for a while. And this older guy walks in and he kind of mutters

00:36:50.520 some under his breath at me. And I said, I'm sorry. And he goes, well, don't you think it's

00:36:54.200 kind of childish to be reading comic books? And I said, no, brings me happiness. Does that bother

00:36:58.460 you? He goes, well, someday you're going to grow out of it and realize it's for kids. And I said,

00:37:02.260 well, then I guess I'll be a kid who benches two 90. Have you seen one of those before? And he goes,

00:37:07.040 no. And I said, yeah, so leave me alone. It's not hurting you, but I do not understand this

00:37:11.400 incessant need to critique what other men do in their own free time. And if you ask me,

00:37:15.620 it's because they never realized that they had a choice. You can do both. Yeah. I bench

00:37:20.740 two 90 and I read Batman hush in the sauna. Does that bother you? I deadlift almost 500 pounds

00:37:27.440 and I wear hoochie daddy shorts. My PB bass is almost 10 pounds. If you fish in the Midwest,

00:37:32.420 you know, that's crazy. And yet I let my girlfriend put nail polish on my nails sometimes because it 1.00

00:37:38.020 looked nice. If that bothers you, you need to take a long, hard look in the mirror for the people who

00:37:43.400 are so willing to call other people, betas and sheep. You guys follow the word of people you

00:37:47.860 think are more masculine than you. And we'll only do the hobbies that they say is okay.

00:37:52.300 I, okay. So I should chime in here because I'm, I'm often accused of being one of those old

00:37:56.860 white conservative men who judges other men for their hobbies. And let me say, first of all,

00:38:02.400 I'm skeptical of this conversation, the sauna actually happened. Uh, it probably didn't happen.

00:38:07.180 Basically anytime a content creator recounts some conversation with somebody out in public that

00:38:13.540 becomes the basis of a viral video after the fact, uh, you should always just assume that it's made

00:38:18.980 up, you know, maybe it isn't, but it probably is general rule. Uh, second, what are you doing in

00:38:25.780 the sauna? I don't understand saunas. I've been in a sauna one time for 30 seconds and I sat down and I

00:38:32.500 said, what, so is this it? It's just really hot. What's the point? I'm just going to sit and be

00:38:39.800 extremely uncomfortable and sweating. Why would, I don't get it. Why would anyone do that? Um,

00:38:44.840 choose to do it. It's like, it's a torture chamber. Uh, I would, it would be a great way to torture

00:38:50.660 someone. Um, so I don't understand that as for me personally, you know, I would not judge a guy for

00:38:57.180 reading a comic book. I certainly wouldn't confront him about it. I don't care nearly enough or at all.

00:39:04.200 Frankly, I really don't care. Uh, I do judge men who wear nail polish on the other hand,

00:39:09.520 pun intended. Um, comic books are legitimate forms of art. It may surprise you that I have that opinion,

00:39:16.380 but I do, you know, so I have no issue with it. It's not for me, but if you enjoy them, cool.

00:39:21.540 Who cares? Nail polish though is feminine. It's, it's for women. Um, and as men, it is good and 1.00

00:39:29.540 healthy for us to act and dress as men. Why? Because that's what we are. You should act and

00:39:35.840 dress as you are. Nail polish is for women. A man ought not behave like and dress like a woman. Why? 1.00

00:39:42.740 Because he's not a woman. I mean, that's it. I don't know how else to explain it. 1.00

00:39:46.600 Even if you did catch a 10 pound bass, which is impressive, especially for the Midwest.

00:39:52.500 So congrats on that. My PB is eight pounds and I live in Tennessee. So, you know, we're,

00:39:57.540 we're literally every angler, but me has got a 10 pounder. Uh, so I bow to you on that point,

00:40:02.540 but wearing, although you probably made that up too, wearing nail polish as a dude is girly and

00:40:11.240 embarrassing and you shouldn't. Uh, and, um, and you could say, well, it's none of your business.

00:40:15.060 What do you care? I don't know. You volunteered that information about yourself. You didn't have

00:40:18.460 to, you did. Okay. So don't do that either. Well, you're, you're violent. No one asked you.

00:40:22.660 Not one single person said, ask for, for information about whether you wear nail polish.

00:40:27.180 You just told everybody. And so when you tell us, this is what happens when you tell people things

00:40:33.120 and they have brains, they cannot help, but form opinions about it because we're humans.

00:40:39.660 We're human beings with our own perspective. And so any information you give us,

00:40:43.600 we are going to have a perspective on it. And if you don't care about our perspective,

00:40:48.060 don't tell us. You told us, you said I wear nail polish. Okay. I'm hearing that with my own brain.

00:40:54.000 And my perspective is that's girly and embarrassing. What kind of man wears nail polish?

00:40:59.680 Don't want our opinion. Don't tell us. You told us that's my opinion. Okay. But that's not even the

00:41:05.160 point that I want to make. What I want to say is this, whatever your interests and hobbies are,

00:41:11.220 the manliest thing is, I mean, if your interest is wearing nail polish, there's no manly way to go

00:41:18.220 about it. But when we're talking about actual hobbies, whether it's fishing or comic books,

00:41:24.740 the manliest thing is to be confident about them and not need anyone's approval. And yet this guy made

00:41:30.240 a whole video angrily defending his hobbies and his nail polish habit. Didn't have to. Nobody asked

00:41:35.320 for it. Nobody cared about it, except for the guy in the sauna who probably doesn't exist.

00:41:39.760 And if he does exist, you already had that conversation with him. You didn't need to

00:41:42.460 launch into this story and this angry defense to the whole world. The rest of the world didn't

00:41:46.020 know about it. We don't care. So the fact that you did tells me that you actually are not all that

00:41:50.780 confident. You obviously do care what other people think of your hobbies. If you didn't,

00:41:55.240 then the video wouldn't exist. And I noticed this a lot because anytime I make,

00:41:58.620 you know, I talk about, give my opinion about some piece of media or movie or video game,

00:42:05.260 whatever it is, I get flooded with these extremely angry comments from people desperately, furiously

00:42:12.200 defending the piece of entertainment that they like. I mean, I was getting angry comments for days,

00:42:19.540 days, because I said I didn't like Sonic. Okay. And that's my opinion. I watched the movie and this

00:42:26.700 is my opinion. Okay. My opinion is that it's horrible, but days of angry comments,

00:42:33.340 not a joke as Biden would say, not a folks, not a joke, not a joke. I'm serious. And the funniest

00:42:41.880 thing is that the people, those people all would say, I don't care what you think about the movies

00:42:46.620 and shows I watch. No one cares about your opinion. Well, but you do, you clearly do. You obviously care

00:42:53.460 a lot. I mean, that's what gets me. You need other people to approve of the thing you like.

00:42:59.400 If you didn't need their approval, you would not be talking about it. You wouldn't be getting angry

00:43:03.240 that people don't like it. Getting angry that someone doesn't like something you like is weird.

00:43:08.800 It's weird actually. And it shows an extreme lack of confidence on your part.

00:43:14.180 Um, I have hobbies that I like. Fishing is one of them. I don't, I've never made a single

00:43:21.140 video ever like angrily defending fishing. Cause I don't, why would I, I, I know there are people

00:43:27.060 who think it's a dumb hobby. I, I truly don't care. Um, I have no hangups about it. So you're not 0.88

00:43:33.860 going to see me, you know, going into a whole long rant about it. And if someone else made a video

00:43:41.500 where they're saying that fishing is dumb and it's pointless, I'm not going to leave angry 0.93

00:43:47.520 comments. How could you say this? What, what kind of person are you? I was a fan of yours for a long 0.79

00:43:52.820 time, but no more. If this is your opinion of fishing, uh, I would never do that because I

00:43:58.500 actually don't care what other people think of the hobbies that I have. Um, I think there are a lot of

00:44:04.200 people running around who do care a lot and claim they don't. And, um, I don't know, just something

00:44:10.680 you got to think about, uh, if you're, if you're, if you really are that upset by other people not

00:44:15.540 approving of, or thinking your hobby is a little silly, then, uh, that's something you need to

00:44:19.360 think about. And, and, um, maybe it means your hobby is pretty silly, uh, or, or maybe, or I don't 0.90

00:44:25.500 know. I don't know what's going on, but that's a, that's a you thing. That's a you issue. You need 0.78

00:44:29.320 to work out. Let's get to the comment section. Imagining Matt Walsh and customer service is

00:44:44.940 mind boggling. Uh, yeah, it's mind boggling for me too. And I was there. I also can't imagine it

00:44:51.060 anymore. And I was there. I was there the whole time. And I was as bad at those jobs as you would

00:44:59.160 think that I would be. That's all I can say. Uh, jobs today are literally the easiest they've

00:45:04.560 ever been saying it's the hardest is the most insane position I've ever heard. People used to

00:45:08.300 work on a farm 15 plus hours a day, every day, no air conditioning, just plowing and backbreaking

00:45:12.800 labor and hopes they survive, not take a vacation every year, not get enough Starbucks, et cetera,

00:45:17.580 but to just not die. The idea of a 40 hour work week is historically brand new. These people don't

00:45:24.420 have the slightest clue about history and don't even get me started on the great depression.

00:45:28.160 Uh, yeah, that was my point. When you, when you compare our situation historically, we all have it

00:45:33.760 very easy. And yet you've got people claiming that it's harder now than it's ever been, which is just

00:45:39.100 preposterous. Um, and I think some of the people who make these claims obviously know better, but some

00:45:44.200 of them really believe it. I think that there's this deep chronic kind of historical

00:45:47.340 illiteracy that people have, which, which by the way, the fact that other people have had it harder

00:45:51.620 than you, uh, doesn't make it any easier for you. Right. Uh, just like, you know, if you grew up

00:46:00.200 with a boomer parent and so you got the classic thing where you said you're hungry and, uh, or,

00:46:06.820 or you didn't eat your meal or something and says, Oh, they're starving people in China, that whole deal.

00:46:10.900 Um, that, that might be, but it doesn't actually change whatever I'm experiencing.

00:46:17.520 Um, so I, I understand that, but it does, that's like I said yesterday, it, it should put things

00:46:23.220 into context for you and it should be a point of inspiration to know that, um, however hard your

00:46:31.260 challenges are, there are people who've gone through much, much, much harder things and have

00:46:38.600 started much lower kind of on the totem pole than you did and they still succeeded. So I don't know.

00:46:42.860 I look at that as inspirational. I look at that as, okay, well, it's, it's not whatever I'm trying

00:46:51.560 to achieve. Here are the obstacles. Here's what I'm trying to achieve. Okay. Well, here are countless

00:46:56.840 people over here who are trying to achieve something that had a much bigger obstacle. They got over it.

00:47:00.720 If they can do it, then I can do it. Um, Matt, we have a recruiting crisis in the military. Also,

00:47:11.640 Matt, we need to massively raise the standards for entry into the military. Yeah. Well, those,

00:47:16.560 those ideas are not in conflict actually. When you have higher standards and you're trying to recruit

00:47:21.040 men, men who want to defend the nation and kill the bad guys, uh, you're going to succeed in bringing

00:47:26.100 in a lot of those kinds of men. But when you lower the standards so that fat unfit men and women can 0.80

00:47:32.640 also join, that doesn't mean that you end up with the same number of strong warrior types. And then

00:47:37.660 you're also just adding the fat guys and the women on top of it. Um, I don't think it works that way. 0.52

00:47:42.340 I think you begin to lose the warriors because they don't want to be a part of it anymore. It just

00:47:48.300 doesn't appeal to them the way that it did before. Uh, your advice about young men, what young men

00:47:56.880 should do is good. But as a 23 year old, I've given up on marrying the right woman and raising 0.88

00:48:00.320 kids, even though it's been a lifelong dream and a true purpose to existence. I live in Baltimore.

00:48:04.100 Go Ravens. Hope we beat the bills this weekend. But I'm a white guy in a radical liberal city that

00:48:08.040 hates white men. My dreams are just unrealistic. Love the advice, but not everyone can achieve their 0.90

00:48:13.420 dreams. Dude, you're 23 years old. You're 23. I mean, your dreams are unrealistic at 23. What are

00:48:26.140 you talking about? You're just at the starting gate. I mean, things have barely begun for you.

00:48:31.980 The whole adventure is still in front of you. Everything is in front of you. I mean,

00:48:35.620 talk to any successful person, talk to anyone who you trust, who's, uh, in their late thirties,

00:48:44.460 forties, fifties, sixties, and ask them like, where were they when they were 23? You're going to

00:48:50.240 hear the same kinds of stories. You'll hear the same kinds of stories you'll hear from me. You know,

00:48:54.420 23 for me was 15 years ago. Do you understand what an epically long and winding and sometimes

00:49:00.620 frustrating and difficult and, uh, exciting and unexpected and just wild road it's been for the

00:49:07.820 last 15 years? I can tell you 15 years ago, right? There wasn't a soul. There wasn't a single person

00:49:14.360 in my life who would have thought that I would be where I am at this exact moment. Uh, if I had said

00:49:21.320 to anyone 15 years ago that in 15 years, I would be married with six kids living in a nice house,

00:49:29.780 the major question in my career would be, what should I do for my third movie after the box office

00:49:35.920 success of my second? I mean, if I had said that to anyone, that that's where I would be in 15 years,

00:49:40.060 they would have looked at me living in a barely furnished 400 square foot roach infested apartment

00:49:45.520 with no college education, no training, apparently no skills of any kind and no future, no prospects.

00:49:52.960 And they would have said that I was crazy. So your path, you know, is going to be different

00:49:59.340 than mine or any other, anyone else you talk to is older than you. Uh, my only point is that it's

00:50:04.460 just at the beginning and no matter how humble and how seemingly hopeless your situation is right now,

00:50:09.800 I mean, your goals are not out of reach. They're just a long way off, right? You have to,

00:50:15.520 they're out of reach. Like you can't literally reach right now and, and grab them, but they're,

00:50:21.620 that doesn't, maybe there's another way of putting it. They're out of reach right now,

00:50:24.520 but they're not unattainable. Uh, you just have to start moving towards them.

00:50:29.800 So when you say your dream's unrealistic, that just doesn't mean anything to me. I mean,

00:50:33.240 I don't care about unrealistic. Uh, people have been telling me about unrealistic my whole

00:50:38.640 damn life. I mean, even now, guess what? Like it doesn't, doesn't stop even now. I'll have people 0.94

00:50:44.100 saying to me, if I say, well, here's what I want to do next. I'll hear, well, you can't,

00:50:47.980 you can't do that. I mean, that's a little much that that's outside your wheelhouse.

00:50:53.060 Okay, fine. You can sit on the sidelines and watch me do it or watch me try and fail. At least I tried

00:51:00.020 like, what the hell are you doing? You bench warmer. I mean, not talking to you. I'm talking

00:51:04.600 to this hypothetical person. That's the attitude you have to have it. It's not ego. It just means that

00:51:08.580 you, you know what you want and you see the path and you're going to go get it. So the great thing

00:51:13.380 for you, and I say this all the time to young men of your age, uh, the great thing for you is that

00:51:18.220 things are very low stakes. Um, when you get older, for me at this stage of my life, if I take a big

00:51:24.360 gamble and I fail, the consequences can be severe. I'll still take gambles, but I have to be smarter.

00:51:30.540 I have to be more calculated. I have to always have contingency plans in place. You though,

00:51:34.720 you're 23 and single, no kids. It's just you. So you're lonely. I get that. I was too at your age,

00:51:41.400 but you're also in a position where you can be nimble and adaptive and a risk taker. Uh, you know,

00:51:46.920 if you don't like where you live, you said where in the city you live, you don't like it, then move.

00:51:52.200 But why you still live there, just get up and move. And I know when I say that there's going to be

00:51:56.540 people, Oh, it's not that simple. You can't just get it. Yeah, it is. No, it's not that simple for me

00:52:01.840 to move. Cause I have six kids. It's not that simple for a lot of people, my age to me, but for

00:52:06.540 you at 23, no kids, not married. Yeah, it is actually that simple. It is that simple. Yes.

00:52:13.920 Um, so look, I don't know what your dreams are. I mean, you said you want to get married and have

00:52:19.880 a family. That's a great dream. That's a great goal. Uh, I assume you have other dreams to dreams

00:52:24.840 of what you want to do in your life and your career, what you want to accomplish professionally.

00:52:28.220 Uh, it sounds like you're demoralized across the board, both in terms of finding a wife and having

00:52:32.760 success in life. Um, your dreams are unrealistic. You say now, look, if you were 23, if you're 23

00:52:38.940 and you told me that your dream is to be a power forward in the NBA, uh, then I would tell you that

00:52:43.680 you need to recalibrate drastically. That's not going to happen. Okay. There's no path to accomplishing

00:52:47.680 that right now. If you were six years old and you were in the 0.5%, uh, percentile for height and

00:52:53.780 athleticism, and you said your dream is to be in the NBA, then I would say, yeah, go chase it,

00:52:57.360 go chase it. Um, for you though. And for me, that that's just not a possible world,

00:53:02.560 but I'm going to assume that that isn't your dream. I'm going to assume your dream is something

00:53:07.140 at least theoretically achievable. And, uh, and, uh, and we know one of them, you just said start a

00:53:13.020 family. So there's no reason to give up on it. Just don't focus on the grand vision. Just, just focus

00:53:18.640 on like, okay, you know what you want to do. Uh, you can imagine theoretically the steps that would

00:53:26.260 need to have to be taken to get to that point. So you can, you can conceptualize that in your head.

00:53:32.320 And so all you have to think about is like, well, what's the first thing, what's the very first thing

00:53:36.180 I need to do? If, if this is, if this is a hundred steps from now where I want to be, uh, what, what is

00:53:42.400 the very first thing that a person who wants to achieve that should do? And then just do that.

00:53:47.140 Just take that first step. Uh, and then, uh, and then the second and the third and, and, uh, you can't

00:53:54.220 plan it all out right now because once you get to like step 40 and 50, it may turn out that step

00:54:00.640 50 is something you can't even imagine right now because that's just life. But the first step you

00:54:05.800 can imagine and you just, uh, you have to go do it, turn this show off and go do that thing today.

00:54:12.380 We'll listen to the rest of the show and then, and then go do it. Heads up everybody. Monday is the

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00:54:52.160 our daily cancellation. One of the first rules of the aviation industry is that in general,

00:55:02.380 you don't want to be in the news when you're running an airline and everything's going well,

00:55:05.960 then you're out of the headlines. It's only when things go wrong that you start to get noticed.

00:55:09.920 It's like playing on the offensive line in the NFL. If fans are noticing you and announcers are saying

00:55:14.700 your name, it means you're screwing up. It's not a good thing. And by that metric,

00:55:18.340 things have been going pretty badly as of late for Alaska Airlines. The last 14 months or so have not

00:55:24.640 been kind to the airline. First, there was the whole situation on board Alaska Air Flight 2059

00:55:30.520 operated by Horizon Air for Alaska Airlines. As I remember, an off-duty pilot who was tagging along

00:55:35.600 in the cockpit decided to try to crash the plane mid-flight. He attempted to disable the engines with

00:55:40.300 the fire suppression system while they were flying over Portland, Oregon. That episode didn't

00:55:44.320 exactly inspire confidence in Alaska Airlines hiring process. By the way, that pilot was charged with

00:55:49.660 83 counts of attempted murder, but he immediately got out of jail after posting a $50,000 bond. So

00:55:55.400 that's what, like 600 bucks per person he tried to kill, just in case you're wondering how the legal

00:56:00.440 system works in Portland. In any event, back to Alaska Airlines. Then there was the whole door incident

00:56:05.200 where the door blew off the Alaska Airlines passenger jet in midair. Again, took place over Portland,

00:56:10.340 Oregon. And again, it made people wonder what exactly was going on at this airline and how

00:56:14.700 they were overseeing quality control in our planes. I probably didn't help matters for the airline when

00:56:19.780 I found this footage on TikTok from the contractor that assembled the door, which is called Spirit

00:56:24.240 Aerosystems. The footage identifies the engineering dream team at the organization. And in case you missed

00:56:30.540 it, here it is again.

00:56:35.540 Let's go, girls. 1.00

00:56:39.960 All right. So we remember that one.

00:56:47.060 And

00:56:47.460 it might actually be the exact same. Those are the, those are Kathy Holkeul's dancers too, I think. These,

00:56:54.440 these people get around. Now, to be fair, those sassy women didn't work for Alaska Airlines, but Alaska 1.00

00:57:00.400 Airlines does still rely on these sassy women to make sure the doors don't fly off in flight. 1.00

00:57:06.620 There's a lot of trust there. It turns out, despite these ladies' obvious dancing prowess,

00:57:11.660 that that trust was sorely misplaced. That brings us to the third and most recent embarrassing episode

00:57:16.100 for Alaska Airlines, which was just reported a couple of days ago. And once again, it appears that

00:57:20.300 Alaska Airlines has put far too much trust in women who like to dance instead of doing their jobs. 1.00

00:57:25.160 Specifically, a flight attendant decided to celebrate the end of her six-month probationary

00:57:30.220 new hire period by twerking on an empty flight during a layover at 6 a.m. while waiting for the

00:57:36.880 pilots to arrive. And she then posted the footage to TikTok. Here's what the video looked like,

00:57:41.460 although the audio was originally a rap song called Ghetto that's been dubbed out for copyright reasons.

00:57:46.420 For context, the caption on this video on TikTok, as written by this flight attendant, was, quote,

00:57:52.720 Ghetto bit till I D-I-E. Don't let the uniform fool you. B-I-H? Is that a typo? That's supposed to be...

00:58:05.480 Oh, that's... Okay. Is that how the kids are saying these days? Do they say it that way or do you just

00:58:10.600 write it that way? They say it that way. All right. Those sons of biz. Now, because, of course,

00:58:20.580 when you're 30,000 feet in the air cruising along at 400 miles an hour, you really want the crew in

00:58:25.900 charge of your comfort and safety to be ghetto. I mean, that's what you're looking for. I can't tell 1.00

00:58:30.460 you how many times I've had a flight and afterwards somebody asked me how it went and I was like,

00:58:34.360 oh, it was nice. It was a great flight. Crew was very ghetto. It was wonderful. 1.00

00:58:38.340 Anyway, here's the clip.

00:58:46.800 Oh, yeah. There's no music. So anyway, well, there she is talking. It's so much more awkward

00:58:51.600 without the music. And okay, good. Now, very soon after Alaska Airlines saw this clip and a rare

00:59:00.640 example of accountability in modern society, they fired a flight attendant for violating their social

00:59:05.740 media policies. And that decision led the flight attendant to set up one of the most entertaining

00:59:10.480 GoFundMes that we've seen in a while. As of today, it's raised about $2,000 of its $12,000 goal and

00:59:16.820 which is way more than it should, but not exactly hitting the goal. Not hard to see why. The pitch

00:59:24.280 isn't exactly the most compelling. It reads, quote,

00:59:26.200 I never thought a single moment would cost me everything. I worked as a flight attendant for Alaska

00:59:31.160 Airlines for over six months. In between those six months, both of my English bulldogs died

00:59:35.300 unexpectedly. My relationship was rocky because of the time I spent away, but I love my job,

00:59:40.520 meeting new people, seeing the world, and creating a safe, welcoming environment for passengers.

00:59:45.760 Although this was my dream job, I was using the income to fund my blossoming lingerie and dessert

00:59:50.480 business. And she gives the name, which I'm not even going to pass along.

00:59:53.980 Um, both of your dogs died. First of all, that's a bit, I mean, sorry for your loss. That's a bit

01:00:01.100 suspicious. Were you too busy twerking and you forgot to feed them? I mean, how did they both die?

01:00:06.400 So she's a bit of an entrepreneur, uh, already identified something of a marketing opportunity 1.00

01:00:10.840 here. It's enough to make you wonder if that was her goal all along. But then again, the GoFundMe

01:00:14.820 isn't exactly generating a lot of interest. So it stands to reason that these businesses aren't taking

01:00:18.400 off either. And as she goes on, she says that she's desperate to find another flight attendant job.

01:00:23.980 And she also launches into a series of additional excuses. Quote, 0.98

01:00:27.520 I was also celebrating the end of probation and making it out of a hard upbringing in San

01:00:31.460 Francisco, California. Life, something many people in the industry could relate to. The video went,

01:00:38.820 yeah, they could relate to life. I mean, yeah, any true. I mean, we can all relate to life. We're all

01:00:45.120 living where we all are alive. So we can relate to that experience, but I just don't,

01:00:50.180 why does your life involve twerking on an airplane? I don't know why, what are the,

01:00:53.440 what's the, why is that necessary? Uh, she said the video went viral overnight,

01:00:57.660 but instead of love and support, it brought unexpected scrutiny without warning. They

01:01:01.580 terminated me, no discussion, no chance to defend myself and no chance for a thorough and proper

01:01:06.700 investigation. Losing my job was devastating. I've always been careful about what I share online.

01:01:11.000 And I never thought this video, which didn't even mention the airline by name would cost me my

01:01:15.440 career. That's you being careful. I would hate to see if you got a little reckless,

01:01:21.140 what you'd be putting online. Um, so I guess she thinks that Alaska airlines should have called in

01:01:26.400 the FBI to investigate whether she was indeed the ghetto B who was responsible for twerking on the 0.94

01:01:31.540 plane. Maybe she thinks there's some mitigating factors the airline should have considered,

01:01:35.000 even though she uploaded everything she did on camera by herself was clearly,

01:01:38.720 clearly having a good time. And also apparently the airline isn't supposed to be grateful that she

01:01:43.000 didn't explicitly mention them by name in a video where she's in uniform dancing on one of their

01:01:48.340 planes. So no, this is not any kind of grave injustice, but I will say one thing in defense

01:01:53.200 of this flight attendant, which is that by the standards of modern air travel, she didn't do 0.99

01:01:57.520 anything that unusual. I mean, pretty much everything about aviation is now as demeaning and low class

01:02:02.060 as it can possibly be. All this flight attendant did was sort of embrace the fact as openly as she

01:02:08.100 could. And this is a decline that accelerated during the lockdowns from four years ago. As the New York

01:02:13.440 Times reported late last year, quote, unruly passenger behavior surged during the pandemic,

01:02:17.760 prompting the FAA in 2021 to implement a zero tolerance policy for such conduct and begin issuing

01:02:23.600 fines instead of warning letters to offenders. The agency reported approximately 6,000 such incidents

01:02:29.640 in 2021, a sharp rise compared with about 1,000 reports in 2020. The number of incidents reported

01:02:34.420 in 2023 fell to 2,100, but still represented an uptake from the years preceding the pandemic.

01:02:39.840 One of those bras, by the way, took place at O'Hare Airport in Chicago. If you never saw this one,

01:02:47.040 here it is.

01:03:00.820 I'm not sure that using those plastics, so they're using the plastic signs that say, you know,

01:03:06.320 the floor is wet. I mean, for a brawl, first of all, this is really lethargic. This is a pretty

01:03:13.560 low energy brawl. If you're going to do it, and also if you're going to get charged for using a

01:03:19.080 weapon in an assault, like that's the weapon you're choosing, at least make it count is what I'm trying

01:03:27.100 to say. So this is something that at one time in our nation's history, not too long ago, you would

01:03:31.620 just never see in an airport. And now it's common. I mean, at least there were no illegal migrant 1.00

01:03:37.940 encampments in the shot, so that's something. And meanwhile, along with flights, customer complaints

01:03:41.880 are also way up. By some estimates, there were roughly 15,000 complaints filed by air travelers

01:03:46.460 in 2019. By 2023, that number had risen to 78,000, which is an increase of more than fivefold.

01:03:53.600 And these are statistics that, if you've been to an airport recently, are not exactly surprising.

01:03:57.100 We're also clearly a sign of much larger problems. We went from people flying in their Sunday best

01:04:02.360 to twerking flight attendants and fistfights, you know, WWE royal rumbles in the terminal.

01:04:09.880 And we made that transition because air travel is a microcosm of American culture at large.

01:04:14.620 More people are incapable of behaving like adults in public than at any other time in American history.

01:04:19.060 We've become far too tolerant of this decay to the point that it's actually kind of surprising

01:04:24.760 that Alaska Airlines actually fired this flight attendant.

01:04:28.520 But you can't stop there. We have to make it very clear that anyone who behaves like this

01:04:33.680 and then proudly uploads the footage to social media will be shamed and ridiculed

01:04:37.520 until they never dream of doing it again, much less sending up a GoFundMe to beg for money.

01:04:42.520 And that is why the self-described ghetto stewardess and every other professional who refuses to act 0.90

01:04:49.840 in a remotely professional manner while at work, especially on an airplane, are all today canceled.

01:04:55.900 That'll do it for the show today and this week.

01:04:57.900 We'll talk to you next week in D.C. for the inauguration.

01:05:00.860 Talk to you then. Godspeed.

01:05:02.280 We'll be right back.

01:05:27.580 We'll be right back.

01:05:28.340 We'll be right back.

The Matt Walsh Show - January 17, 2025

Ep. 1517 - The Gender Ideology Movement Is Now Exploiting The Disabled For Clout

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