The Matt Walsh Show - November 29, 2018


Ep. 152 - How The Left Will Normalize Pedophilia


Episode Stats

Length

26 minutes

Words per Minute

169.96648

Word Count

4,547

Sentence Count

338

Misogynist Sentences

14

Hate Speech Sentences

12


Summary

A feminist has declared that she will never cook for a man ever again, and a mother has given her daughter the craziest name you ve ever heard. Today on the show, are children really old enough to consent to changing their gender? Obviously not, but the consequences of treating them like they are old enough could be dire.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Today on the show, are children really old enough to consent to changing their gender?
00:00:05.120 Obviously not, but the consequences of treating them like they are old enough could be dire.
00:00:10.000 We'll talk about that.
00:00:10.900 Also, a feminist has penned a column declaring that she will never cook for a man ever again.
00:00:16.940 And I have some thoughts about that.
00:00:18.980 And finally, a mother has given her daughter the craziest name you've ever heard.
00:00:24.300 All of that coming up on The Matt Wall Show.
00:00:27.660 Okay, so this actually happened.
00:00:29.300 I kept seeing this thing online about how somebody complained that the Lord of the Rings is racist against orcs.
00:00:37.400 And I saw that and I really honestly thought that it must have originated with the Babylon Bee or something like that.
00:00:43.300 But no, it's real.
00:00:44.640 A guy named Andrew Duncan on the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy podcast really said, he really argued in all sincerity that Tolkien was racist because he depicted some creatures as being worse than others.
00:00:57.740 And this has had, these are his words, quote, dire consequences for society.
00:01:04.040 Because of the racism that was generated in that story against orcs, which, you know, he's not wrong.
00:01:11.720 I read, I read Lord of the Rings myself when I was in middle school.
00:01:14.960 And from then on, I harbored this deep bigotry towards undead goblins that have been mined out of the earth by evil wizards.
00:01:23.380 And I never really thought of it until now.
00:01:25.260 But I really did hate them.
00:01:26.700 I wanted nothing to do with them.
00:01:28.100 I didn't want to sit next to them.
00:01:29.500 And I've been like this my whole life.
00:01:32.120 But now I finally have a chance to confront that prejudice and repent of it.
00:01:38.680 So I appreciate that.
00:01:40.300 All right.
00:01:40.640 We talked yesterday about the case of James.
00:01:43.280 James is the six-year-old child in Texas at the center of a custody dispute.
00:01:48.620 His mother wants him to be a girl named Luna and insists that he's transgender.
00:01:56.060 Puts him in dresses, all that stuff.
00:01:58.520 But then when he's with his dad, James just wants to be James.
00:02:03.360 And he wants to be a boy and do boy things and go by the name James.
00:02:07.120 He doesn't want to wear dresses.
00:02:10.740 Now, his dad is trying to rescue him from all this madness and let him just be a boy like he is and like he wants to be.
00:02:18.120 But the mom is accusing the dad of child abuse.
00:02:20.840 The mom, who is trying to turn her son into a girl, is accusing the dad, who wants his son to just be his son, of child abuse for refusing to affirm James's alleged transgender identity.
00:02:35.820 Now, I already made my points about this case, and I'm sure it wouldn't shock you.
00:02:43.360 You won't be shocked to learn that I side with the dad very strongly.
00:02:47.020 I think this child is being exploited and abused by the people who are trying to foist transgenderism on him.
00:02:54.620 Not just his mother, but apparently his therapist.
00:02:59.700 But there's one other point about all this that I didn't make yesterday and I think that needs to be made.
00:03:05.120 So I want you to think about this.
00:03:09.720 A lot of people on the left, especially the militants in the LGBT camp, so especially the LGBT activists,
00:03:18.320 they insist that children as young as James, you know, as young as six years old, he's six.
00:03:25.140 Children even as young as five or even three.
00:03:28.200 Kids really, at any age, they say, possess the knowledge and the foresight and the wisdom and the power to choose their own gender.
00:03:42.820 So the left has no problem with the idea of an elementary school boy transitioning into a girl.
00:03:50.280 They say, well, if that's what he chooses, then it's OK.
00:03:53.040 They have no problem even with kids, young kids taking drugs, puberty blockers, hormones,
00:03:59.380 to essentially chemically castrate themselves, even if temporarily, in order to facilitate this transition.
00:04:06.280 They think that kids can consent to that.
00:04:10.520 Now, this raises a very important question, I think.
00:04:14.200 If a child is too young to consent to having sex, how is he at the same time old enough to consent to changing his sex?
00:04:30.440 I mean, the consent laws are based on the correct idea that children do not have the mental or physical capacity
00:04:39.380 to really fully consent to sexual activity.
00:04:42.340 They are not able to consent to it because they don't have a full concept of what it even is.
00:04:50.540 And because they're young kids, they also don't have the power in any situation to consent, to say no.
00:05:01.440 So that's why we have the consent age where it is.
00:05:04.520 That's why we say that kids can't consent.
00:05:06.260 But if they don't have that capacity, how are they possibly able to choose to transition?
00:05:17.820 If they can't choose to have sex, how can they choose to transition?
00:05:20.880 How do they have, if they don't have the wisdom and the knowledge and all of that and the maturity for one of those things,
00:05:29.420 how do they have it for the other?
00:05:31.980 So obviously there's a contradiction here.
00:05:34.800 The people that are pushing transgenderism on kids are also at the same time, by necessity,
00:05:40.900 pushing an entirely different idea about consent and about the mental capacities and the maturity of children.
00:05:47.960 Which is why I believe the push, the people that are pushing transgenderism will soon enough be pushing pedophilia.
00:05:56.620 The two things kind of go hand in hand.
00:06:01.000 Because in order to make their case that kids can make this choice,
00:06:05.800 they have to tell us that actually, no, kids have all the knowledge and power and maturity that they need.
00:06:11.920 So when pedophilia is normalized in our culture, and I think that it will be soon enough,
00:06:19.200 this is the vehicle by which it will reach that state of normalization.
00:06:23.460 And this is the reason why.
00:06:25.260 This is one of the reasons why this issue really matters.
00:06:28.140 This is why it's important.
00:06:29.740 Because what we're seeing here is an attack on kids, an attack on childhood.
00:06:33.920 And it's not going to stop with just this.
00:06:35.860 It's not going to stop with just the transgender stuff.
00:06:38.460 Nothing ever stops.
00:06:39.460 You know, you never get to a point, especially with the left, when they're, they never stop, if you've noticed.
00:06:46.700 Once they achieve one thing, they get to one landmark, they're going to want to go on to the next.
00:06:51.200 That's how it always works.
00:06:53.880 So soon enough, the people that are saying that kids are old enough to consent to changing their sex
00:06:58.340 will also be arguing that kids are old enough to consent to having sex.
00:07:03.020 And this is not some kind of, like, far-fetched scenario, okay?
00:07:07.040 Pedophilia has been, in the past, and is now today in some cultures, considered normal.
00:07:13.580 Ancient pagan cultures had no problem with it.
00:07:16.460 It's a relatively normal practice in some parts of the world, even today.
00:07:19.960 So it's by no means impossible or even implausible that we in our culture could slide back into that state of things.
00:07:28.460 But there has to be a catalyst for it.
00:07:30.360 There has to be something that sparks the change.
00:07:33.120 And I think this is it.
00:07:34.240 This is what will spark it.
00:07:36.660 And so this is why we need to pay attention.
00:07:40.360 Okay, a couple other things I wanted to discuss.
00:07:42.980 There's a piece that's been going viral over the last few days.
00:07:46.200 It's been pushed out, especially by the feminist corners of the Internet.
00:07:50.100 And it originates from Glamour Magazine's website, which is a website that I personally check every day, as I'm sure you do as well.
00:07:59.080 And the article is titled,
00:08:01.540 I'm a great cook.
00:08:02.460 Now that I'm divorced, I'm never making dinner for a man again.
00:08:05.880 And the pull quote right under the title says,
00:08:10.780 I stopped cooking because I wanted to feel as unencumbered as a man walking through the door with the expectation that something had been done for him.
00:08:19.720 The piece written by Liz Lenz talks about the oppression that she experienced in her marriage when she was forced to cook all the time.
00:08:29.060 And this seems to, you know, this seems to really be resonating with a lot of people who are reading it.
00:08:34.700 So the article starts like this.
00:08:36.700 It says,
00:08:37.540 When my marriage fell apart, I stopped cooking.
00:08:40.960 I gave my children frozen chicken nuggets, pizza, quesadillas, or their favorite, cheese sticks, nuts, fruit, crackers, veggies, all displayed on a hand-me-down China platter.
00:08:50.780 Now they eat like fancy ladies, as my first grader says, piling her little paper plate with nuts and grapes.
00:08:56.780 I live off of bagged salads, rotisserie chicken, and whiskey.
00:09:02.400 That makes two of us.
00:09:03.980 I stopped, except for the salad part.
00:09:06.640 I stopped cooking because I was tired.
00:09:09.060 The kind of tired where your face vibrates and your eyes throb.
00:09:13.040 Too tired to care what I put in my mouth.
00:09:15.180 And my children, then six and four, only wanted to eat Go-Gurts and Cheez-Its anyway.
00:09:19.500 The person who cared was my husband.
00:09:21.460 I had been cooking for him for 12 years.
00:09:23.520 When we first married and moved to Iowa, I couldn't find a job.
00:09:26.060 I spent my days cooking.
00:09:27.540 I worked my way through the joy of cooking.
00:09:29.820 Mastering pastry dough for Beef Wellington, so on and so forth.
00:09:33.320 She talks about all the things that she made.
00:09:35.280 Hoping that when he came home, my husband would sit down and taste them and say, thank you.
00:09:40.620 But he doesn't say thank you.
00:09:43.240 And then it goes on.
00:09:44.380 It's pretty lengthy.
00:09:45.340 Talking about all the things she cooked.
00:09:46.360 And then we get to the climactic moment.
00:09:48.020 And then one night, as my daughter watched TV, my toddler screamed from the living room, and the water boiled, collecting steam on the windows.
00:09:56.900 I broke.
00:09:58.000 I cut and chopped and desperately looked at a recipe on my phone.
00:10:01.360 My back burned with frustration.
00:10:03.200 My feet ached from standing.
00:10:04.520 The steam flushed my cheeks, and I wondered at the molecules that could escape from the heat as I stood there, spatula in hand.
00:10:11.660 It's hard for me to understand when cooking became more repression than liberation, more act of obligation than act of creation.
00:10:19.120 But I knew it then.
00:10:20.560 This thing that had sustained me now felt like a prison.
00:10:23.580 And whose fault was it?
00:10:24.560 It certainly wasn't all my husband's fault.
00:10:27.080 After all, hadn't I wanted to cook?
00:10:28.840 Hadn't I enjoyed it?
00:10:29.700 In the tangle of performance and purpose, in my quest to make a home and love, I had created elaborate offerings which were consumed and judged, and yet afforded me no redemption, no grace, no more than four out of five stars.
00:10:43.840 That night, I dumped the water in the sink, tossed the ingredients in the trash.
00:10:47.980 I poured myself a glass of wine and threw some frozen chicken nuggets in the microwave.
00:10:51.700 When my husband came home, we were already eating.
00:10:54.420 That was the last time I cooked for two years.
00:10:59.700 And then she talks about how she would spend her days.
00:11:04.160 I would wake up at five in the morning and go work out.
00:11:06.620 Then I'd come home, get the kids ready for school, drop them off, come back to the house and cry.
00:11:10.420 I was supposed to be working, but mostly I just sat and stared at the Word document that had become my daily journal, and I wept.
00:11:16.160 That I would try to nap in the guest room until it was time to pick up the kids from school.
00:11:19.640 So, basically, this is a, I would say a tad dramatic self-pitying that's going on here.
00:11:32.320 I mean, she paints it as if she's in some kind of like POW camp or something like that, when all she's doing is just making a meal for her family.
00:11:39.800 But, my back aches, my feet were burning from cooking all day.
00:11:46.660 I mean, yeah, look, I, you know, fine.
00:11:50.180 It seems that she's upset mainly about the perceived, so if we could put all the drama aside and everything like that, and cooking is supposed to be an act of redemption.
00:12:03.220 You know, I don't even know what that means.
00:12:04.580 I don't think it's supposed, it's not supposed to be an act of redemption.
00:12:08.280 It's just something that you do because people need to eat in the house.
00:12:11.180 And so, I don't, you know, I don't think it needs to be this great poetic moment every single time you do it.
00:12:21.020 But it seems that she's upset, and I think there is, there are many different ways you could go with this.
00:12:27.940 But there's also a point here to be made about something that seems to be common, especially in my generation and younger generations, where we kind of, we don't like anything that's an obligation.
00:12:41.840 We don't think that anything should be an obligation.
00:12:43.820 We think that everything we do should have this great, deep purpose, and we should find deep fulfillment in everything that we do.
00:12:51.780 She talks about, no, it shouldn't be an obligation.
00:12:53.860 It should be an act of creation.
00:12:55.720 And so, we want everything we do to be this creative expression of our innermost being.
00:13:05.780 But that's not how life works.
00:13:08.220 Not everything you do is going to be that way.
00:13:11.000 In fact, most of the things, if you're going to be a competent and mature adult, especially if you're going to be a parent, and you're going to be a contributing member of a family,
00:13:22.460 most of the things you do on a daily basis are just kind of mundane tasks that need to be done.
00:13:29.680 You know, when I take the garbage out, I'm not asking myself, what am I getting out of this?
00:13:34.360 You know, taking the garbage out used to be this fulfilling act of self-affirmation, but now I feel like it's just a drudgery.
00:13:42.040 All I'm doing is, no, I don't have that crisis.
00:13:44.200 I just, I just, the garbage needs to be taken out, so I just take it out.
00:13:47.760 That's all.
00:13:48.800 Not everything has to be fulfilling.
00:13:51.000 You just do it because it needs to be done.
00:13:53.480 And it seems like people these days struggle with this concept that there are things you do.
00:13:57.900 There are a lot of things you do just because they need to be done and for no other reason.
00:14:03.660 And if you're going to stop doing things that need to be done and only do the things that you find fulfilling,
00:14:10.140 then you're going to end up like the writer of this piece.
00:14:12.500 You just spend your days crying and napping because the thing is, there aren't that many fulfilling things to do in a day.
00:14:19.360 If you say to yourself, I'm only going to fill my day with fulfilling things, then it's just, you're just going to end up on your bed crying, I guess,
00:14:29.800 which is what unfortunately happened to this woman.
00:14:31.560 Now, it seems mainly that she's upset about the perceived lack of appreciation and gratitude on her husband's part.
00:14:41.440 And listen, gratitude is very important in a marriage.
00:14:44.220 If somebody makes you a meal, you should say thank you.
00:14:47.340 You should appreciate it.
00:14:48.900 It can be deadly in a marriage if one or both spouses feel that the other is not grateful, doesn't care, doesn't appreciate.
00:14:55.380 But, you know, as I'm reading this and I'm thinking about how much it apparently resonates with some women on the Internet, a lot of women apparently,
00:15:04.800 I couldn't help but notice something.
00:15:06.740 Maybe you notice the same thing.
00:15:08.020 First of all, she says that at first she didn't have a job.
00:15:13.660 Her husband worked to support the family.
00:15:15.180 She didn't have a job.
00:15:16.560 Then she alludes to a job later on.
00:15:19.080 So I guess she got a job later.
00:15:20.620 But she says that she wouldn't do her job.
00:15:23.460 And instead she would go to the gym, take a nap, and then go pick the kids up.
00:15:27.840 So it seems like from this, it seems like her husband was the primary person in the family supporting everyone in earning a paycheck.
00:15:35.540 That's what it would seem like from how she presented it.
00:15:39.200 So I have to wonder, did she appreciate that?
00:15:46.920 Was she grateful?
00:15:49.380 So she wanted a thank you for the meals that she prepared.
00:15:52.620 Fair enough.
00:15:53.860 And she should get a thank you.
00:15:55.480 But did she ever thank him for working?
00:16:00.860 Maybe she did, but the way she tells the story, she paints her husband as this oaf who did nothing but eat.
00:16:08.220 Did she treat him that way during the marriage?
00:16:11.540 Did she treat him that way in spite of all the work that he was doing to sustain the family?
00:16:17.220 Did she ever say thank you to him?
00:16:19.220 When he walked in the door from work, did she ever say thank you for the work you did today?
00:16:27.760 When he brought home the paycheck, did she ever say thank you for that?
00:16:32.520 If she was expecting gratitude and appreciation, did she ever give it in return?
00:16:38.120 As I said, I don't know.
00:16:41.340 But you have to wonder what his side of the story would be.
00:16:47.060 And you wonder if he went to work every day, long hours, supporting his family, unappreciated.
00:16:54.840 You wonder if he felt that there was no gratitude for his contributions.
00:16:59.440 You wonder if he noticed the resentment from his wife when he got home each day.
00:17:05.100 Because apparently, you know, eventually she started to really hate the fact that she had to cook a meal.
00:17:10.100 And you wonder if he noticed that.
00:17:12.800 And he would walk into a resentful, spiteful wife.
00:17:15.720 You wonder, you know.
00:17:16.340 You wonder if how he felt when he came home after a long day's work.
00:17:22.020 And as she says, his family was already eating without him.
00:17:25.620 Couldn't even be bothered to wait.
00:17:28.080 He walks in, he's been working hard all day.
00:17:30.100 And his wife has, you know, got the feet kicked up, having some wine.
00:17:33.020 They've already eaten without him.
00:17:36.980 You wonder how he felt about that.
00:17:40.120 But here's the thing.
00:17:41.100 If he was feeling just as fed up as his wife, if he was tired too, if his back was aching and his knees hurt and all that stuff,
00:17:53.620 if he was having all those same feelings, he couldn't just stop working.
00:18:00.560 She apparently decided to stop contributing to the family at a certain point.
00:18:04.920 And that's what she said.
00:18:06.020 She would just go to the gym and, you know, take a nap.
00:18:10.560 But I assume he couldn't do that.
00:18:12.960 Someone had to support the family.
00:18:16.800 He had to continue on.
00:18:18.960 And, you know, you have to wonder how he felt about that.
00:18:22.900 You know, there's a lot of this kind of stuff online.
00:18:26.240 There are many, many articles that have been written about the unappreciated wife.
00:18:31.160 Many movies have been made that deal with that theme.
00:18:34.800 Many TV shows have dealt with it.
00:18:37.540 This is a common thing that you hear.
00:18:39.960 This is emphasized, that women need to be appreciated.
00:18:42.300 And we see these kinds of stories all the time about the unappreciated wife.
00:18:47.920 And that's, you know, women do need to be appreciated in a marriage.
00:18:51.720 That's definitely true.
00:18:54.960 But that fact, at least, is generally emphasized in our culture.
00:18:59.680 The reverse is not emphasized.
00:19:02.740 Hardly at all.
00:19:03.580 It seems that women are rarely encouraged to be grateful for their husbands.
00:19:11.120 That's just not something that you see very often.
00:19:14.860 Now, fortunately, I feel a lot of appreciation in my marriage.
00:19:18.300 And I try to give appreciation to, I hope that I give it as much as I should.
00:19:22.040 Although I'm sure I can be better at it than I am.
00:19:24.360 But I do know for sure that there are a lot of men who feel just like the writer of this article feels.
00:19:31.180 And perhaps with more justification than she had.
00:19:34.880 Yet their plight isn't taken as seriously.
00:19:37.260 And if they complain, they would probably just be called lazy deadbeats and told to just, you know, get their act together and do what they needed to do.
00:19:43.540 I mean, can you imagine an article from a man complaining that his wife never thanked him when he got home from work each day, so eventually he just stopped going to work?
00:19:54.340 Can you imagine that?
00:19:56.160 Do you think that article would be well received?
00:19:57.980 Because I don't think it would be.
00:20:00.920 Look, the point is, gratitude and appreciation are extremely important in a marriage in both directions.
00:20:09.560 They are absolutely essential, going both ways.
00:20:13.540 Husband to wife, wife to husband.
00:20:17.040 The wife's job, the mother's job is difficult.
00:20:19.920 There's no question about that.
00:20:21.060 Whether she works outside of the home or whether she doesn't, it is difficult to be a mother and to be a wife.
00:20:27.120 No question.
00:20:28.440 But the man's job, the husband's job, the father's job is also difficult.
00:20:35.440 And if one of them is home and the other is out working, it's wrong for the person who's out working to treat the other like they don't do anything all day.
00:20:43.540 And they don't contribute to the family.
00:20:45.660 That's wrong.
00:20:47.420 But it's also wrong in the other direction.
00:20:49.660 It's wrong for the one who's at home dealing with the kids and all that stuff to treat the other person like they're on vacation when they go to work.
00:20:56.960 Because work is not a vacation.
00:20:59.340 To support a family is not a vacation.
00:21:01.160 It's a difficult thing to do.
00:21:02.840 So either attitude from either direction is deadly to a marriage.
00:21:06.680 Both are completely wrong.
00:21:09.220 And you just have to wonder.
00:21:10.940 Like, I think this is something that we all have to think about.
00:21:14.520 And if you're feeling unappreciated in your marriage, and you're feeling like your spouse isn't grateful for the things that you do, I think you have to stop and ask yourself, okay, do I appreciate them?
00:21:27.880 Do I express gratitude to them?
00:21:30.780 Is it possible that they feel exactly like I feel?
00:21:34.000 Is it even possible that my own lack of appreciation and gratitude is what precipitated their lack of it?
00:21:43.100 Is it possible that they're now resentful because of me?
00:21:46.220 Did it really start with me?
00:21:47.560 I mean, these are questions.
00:21:48.840 In the article, she never grapples with that question at all.
00:21:51.740 She never, in the article, stops to wonder, hey, you know, I wonder what my role in this whole thing is.
00:21:57.300 And so it's no surprise that the marriage fell apart.
00:22:06.120 Because if both or even one person in a marriage is not willing to look at themselves critically, then, again, that's just going to be deadly for a marriage.
00:22:17.080 One last thing.
00:22:17.920 A mother is very angry because she heard a Southwest gate agent at the airport making fun of her daughter's name.
00:22:28.620 Her daughter's name is spelled A-B-C-D-E.
00:22:33.200 The letters A-B-C-D-E.
00:22:35.300 That's what she named her daughter.
00:22:37.000 It's pronounced Ab-City.
00:22:40.240 Ab-City.
00:22:42.060 Ab-City.
00:22:43.020 I think Ab-City.
00:22:44.840 The mother, Tracy Redford, well, she has a normal name, but she couldn't give her daughter one.
00:22:51.420 The mother says, the gate agent started laughing, pointing at me at my daughter, talking to the other employees.
00:22:57.180 So I turned around and said, hey, I can hear you.
00:23:00.560 And if I can hear you, my daughter can hear you.
00:23:02.300 So I'd appreciate it if you'd just stop.
00:23:04.480 While I was sitting there, she took a picture of my boarding pass and chose to post it on social media, mocking my daughter.
00:23:09.280 It was actually brought to my attention by somebody who had seen it on Facebook.
00:23:12.880 And I reported to Southwest Airlines.
00:23:15.160 Southwest hadn't done anything yet.
00:23:17.100 Now, listen, obviously it's wrong to put it on social media, and they shouldn't be making fun of the daughter.
00:23:25.060 But whose fault is it?
00:23:29.240 I mean, what did you think would happen?
00:23:31.520 You can't give your child an insane, ridiculous name and then act surprised when people react to it.
00:23:40.180 What did you think is going to happen?
00:23:41.440 You give her the name A-B-C-D-E.
00:23:43.300 Like, it's not possible to react to that in any other way.
00:23:47.020 It would take immense self-control to read that name with a straight face.
00:23:53.740 It would be very difficult to do.
00:23:55.020 So here's my message to all parents.
00:23:59.620 Your kid has to live with the name that you give him, at least until he's old enough to change it,
00:24:05.840 which means he's definitely going to go through grade school, at the very least, with whatever name you hung around his neck.
00:24:12.600 So do him a favor and give him a normal name.
00:24:16.380 Don't be selfish about it.
00:24:18.180 Don't try to be cute.
00:24:19.860 Don't worry about what's trendy.
00:24:22.060 Just give him a normal name.
00:24:23.960 He deserves a normal name.
00:24:26.900 You have a normal name, so give him one.
00:24:30.840 Not a name that needs to be explained.
00:24:33.560 Not a name that will elicit instinctive laughter from anyone who sees it or hears it.
00:24:40.240 If it is a name that he is going to have to explain and justify for the rest of his life,
00:24:49.420 then don't give it to him.
00:24:51.780 The name is a curse, then.
00:24:53.500 So don't do that.
00:24:55.600 Now, if you want to give something a crazy name, then get a pet.
00:25:00.500 This is one of the only advantages of having a pet, is that you can name it whatever you want, and it doesn't matter.
00:25:07.120 So get a gerbil, and you can get that out of your system.
00:25:12.480 That's my recommendation.
00:25:13.340 If you really feel like you want to give your kids some crazy name, go get a gerbil or a hamster instead and get it out of your system.
00:25:21.160 Give the name to the gerbil.
00:25:23.760 Or to your dog, or whatever.
00:25:26.380 It doesn't matter.
00:25:27.120 To name a pet, you could just mix up some Scrabble titles, take some Scrabble tiles and mix them up in a bag and then spill them on the table, and whatever comes out, just make that the name.
00:25:38.120 Oh, I guess we're going to call our dog Pluff New.
00:25:40.800 You know, whatever.
00:25:41.380 It doesn't matter.
00:25:41.840 But don't do that to your child.
00:25:45.820 We named our dog after one of my favorite bourbon distilleries, Weller.
00:25:51.520 We named the dog Weller.
00:25:53.680 It was either that or name him after an obscure Civil War general.
00:25:57.040 Now, I would never do that to a child.
00:25:59.120 I would never name a child after bourbon, but I figure it's a dog.
00:26:02.880 Why not?
00:26:03.580 So do it to your pet.
00:26:06.140 Give him whatever name you want.
00:26:07.640 Not to your child.
00:26:08.440 Your child should just have a normal name.
00:26:12.180 There are probably about, I don't know, you know, for either gender, there's probably, there are probably 100, 200 names that are perfectly normal and fine.
00:26:24.940 So just relegate yourself to those names and do your child a favor in the process.
00:26:31.080 All right, we'll leave it there.
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