The Matt Walsh Show - March 04, 2025


Ep. 1548 - Democrats Ignore The Will Of The People With This Insane Move


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Misogynist Sentences

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00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, Democrats vote down a measure to prohibit men from women's sports.
00:00:03.660 Not a single Democrat was willing to break party lines and take the side of sanity and
00:00:07.280 common sense. Also, the mayor of Boston tries to do some PR cleanup after offering her heartfelt
00:00:11.280 condolences to a crazed assailant who tried to stab random people. A Hollywood actor shocks
00:00:15.420 the world by expressing a desire to have more than 1.5 kids. And this year's Best Picture
00:00:19.420 winner has sparked another conversation about quote unquote sex work. The director and star
00:00:24.100 of the film say that we need to be allies to prostitutes. What does that mean exactly?
00:00:27.500 We'll talk about all that more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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00:02:33.700 One of the things you're generally not supposed to do when you're in the commentary business is
00:02:37.920 draw any sweeping conclusions about public sentiment based on reading YouTube comments.
00:02:42.760 You can't usually review YouTube comments and determine how people generally feel about
00:02:47.340 something. But there's been a trend lately across various comment sections that, at this point,
00:02:52.940 you simply can't ignore. If you pull up news reports about Republicans' efforts to ban men
00:02:57.560 from competing in women's sports, you'll find in every single instance, without exception,
00:03:02.780 that the comments overwhelmingly support the Republicans. Even if you go to the channels of
00:03:07.560 left-wing news stations, the pattern remains the same. And not just on YouTube. Read the comments
00:03:11.480 under any article on the topic, anywhere. Read the comments on X or Facebook or Instagram.
00:03:16.880 There is everywhere on every major platform wide agreement on this issue. There just isn't any
00:03:21.320 debate among reasonable people about the topic. Everybody is tired of seeing men dominate women's
00:03:27.900 sports by pretending to be women. Take, for example, this footage from NBC News report last
00:03:33.300 month. It's about a bill that passed in the House, which would codify one of Donald Trump's executive
00:03:37.640 orders. The bill is called the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act. And the terms of legislation
00:03:43.180 are pretty simple. It would ban any school that receives federal funding from, quote,
00:03:46.820 permitting a person whose sex is male to participate in an athletic program or activity
00:03:50.980 that is designated for women or girls. And the bill goes on to define sex as solely on a person's
00:03:56.240 reproductive biology and genetics at birth. Just in case there was any doubt about that,
00:04:00.520 that's what sex means. Now, this is the kind of legislation we need to see more of. It's a
00:04:05.420 meaningful step by Republicans in Congress to give some backbone to an executive order that's
00:04:10.400 very important. And with that in mind, here's how NBC News covered the House vote on this
00:04:15.580 legislation back in January. Watch.
00:04:18.700 The House passing a bill that would ban transgender girls and women from competing in women's sports.
00:04:24.460 The legislation would impact transgender athletes in federally funded schools,
00:04:28.320 grades elementary through college, and would result in a school losing funding if violated.
00:04:33.320 Transgender students in sports became a top issue on the 2024 campaign trail and now a top priority
00:04:38.180 of House Republicans in the new Congress.
00:04:40.020 Now, right away, you could see that they're framing this legislation as a bill that would ban
00:04:46.680 transgender girls and women from competing in women's sports. So they're not reporting the truth,
00:04:50.960 which is that transgender girls and women, quote unquote, are men. They're not going into any
00:04:56.260 detail about how obviously unfair it is for men to compete against women in sports because they are
00:05:01.020 men. Instead, they're trying to portray this law as some kind of mean-spirited,
00:05:05.140 you know, bigoted effort by Republican lawmakers and so on. And even on NBC News' YouTube channel,
00:05:11.220 which has a very left-leaning audience, obviously, this framing did not fly. Instead of condemning
00:05:15.200 the ban, pretty much every single comment supports it. For example, the top comment reads,
00:05:19.080 can't believe this is even being discussed. Common sense is underrated. Then someone says,
00:05:22.920 finally, the nonsense ends. And another user replies, as a woman and mother of a girl,
00:05:26.140 I'm happy and grateful. I go through about a dozen other videos like this Forbes example has a
00:05:31.520 similar video. One of the top comments puts it this way. As a former Democrat, even if I'm liberal
00:05:35.720 on certain subjects, it's dumb S like this that has driven me and a lot of other folks away from
00:05:41.140 this party. Embarrassing. And again, every comment is like this. So the pattern is familiar. Left-wing
00:05:45.280 media outlets try to portray the Republicans as the villain of this story. And despite the framing,
00:05:50.860 the comment section revolts. And none of this is surprising when you take a look at the polling data
00:05:57.160 on the topic. Just a couple of weeks ago, a New York Times poll found that, quote,
00:06:01.380 the vast majority of Americans, including a majority of Democrats, don't think transgender
00:06:05.180 athletes should be permitted to compete in women's sports. Roughly 80% of respondents said that men who
00:06:10.860 identify as women should be banned from women's sports. And among Democrats, the number was 67%.
00:06:16.500 And by the way, 80% agreement is, I mean, it should go without saying that 80% agreement in this climate
00:06:22.540 these days where we can't agree on anything, a fractured culture that's fractured in a million
00:06:27.400 pieces. To get 80% agreement on anything is almost impossible. I mean, that's as wide an agreement as
00:06:32.660 you could possibly get on anything. And that's what you have on this issue. So it might as well be
00:06:37.820 everyone. I mean, 80% is effectively 100% when you consider where we are in the culture.
00:06:43.780 And just to put these numbers in perspective, something like 4% of Democrats voted for Donald Trump
00:06:48.840 in the last election. This is a demographic that disagrees with Trump on pretty much everything.
00:06:53.580 But when it comes to the farce of men competing in women's sports, even most Democrats are forced
00:06:59.600 to agree with him. Most. In fact, a wide majority. And that's why the vote that just took place in the
00:07:05.700 Senate is so remarkable. Every single Democrat in the Senate, all 45 of them, every single one just
00:07:11.420 voted against the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act. In other words, 100% of the Democrat
00:07:17.260 Party in the Senate still endorses the insanity of men competing against women. There was not one
00:07:23.980 single defector. For all we hear about there being certain Democrat politicians who are the good ones,
00:07:29.400 the reasonable ones, they're not the crazy ones. None of them showed up this time. Every single one
00:07:36.580 came out in support of men and women's sports, despite the overwhelming number of voters, including
00:07:41.700 Democrat voters who are tired of this nonsense. In spite of that, Democrats in Washington are
00:07:47.700 in complete lockstep on this issue and they're proud of it. So this is footage of Elizabeth Warren
00:07:53.320 casting her vote. And to give you some idea of how the day went, she makes sure that everyone sees that
00:07:58.440 she's giving the big thumbs down for the cameras. This was so confusing that I went looking through the
00:08:05.600 floor debates on this bill. I wanted to know what exactly could motivate the party of democracy that
00:08:11.240 loves democracy so much to flagrantly disregard the clear desires of their own voters. I wanted to see
00:08:18.540 what arguments they put forward. And I came across this speech from Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois. And
00:08:24.360 here's how it began. This is Dick Durbin's argument for why the Senate should not pass a bill that bans men
00:08:30.800 for competing against women in sports. Here it is. I also want to say a word about what we're going to
00:08:35.440 vote on today, an issue that's going to come before us. I might ask my colleagues if they could answer
00:08:45.800 the following question. How many athletes in some NCAA athletes are there in the United States?
00:08:53.520 I asked Mr. Baker, former governor of Massachusetts that question. And he said, over 500,000.
00:09:05.200 500,000. And I said, of all those athletes, what percentage are transgender? Oh, fewer than 10.
00:09:15.580 I said, fewer than 10%? No, fewer than 10 total out of 500,000 are transgender. And yet we're going to
00:09:23.500 come to the floor with a proposal from Senator Tuberville to vote on this issue.
00:09:28.800 Okay, so according to him, it affects basically no one. So why wouldn't you support it?
00:09:33.260 What's the argument against it? What's especially funny about this line of argument is that Durbin
00:09:36.800 supported Democrats' anti-lynching law a few years back. As you may remember, the Biden administration
00:09:42.280 made a big deal about signing that bill, even though lynching and all other forms of murder,
00:09:46.900 outside the womb anyway, have been illegal for some time in this country.
00:09:51.180 So somehow the fact that no black people have been lynched in several decades, and the fact that
00:09:56.700 it's already illegal on like five different levels to do it, did not deter Durbin from supporting that
00:10:02.800 law. But now we're supposed to conclude that because there aren't thousands of men playing
00:10:07.920 women's sports, the whole issue is moot. And this is the stock argument you hear all the time from
00:10:13.220 trans activists. Of course, even assuming that Durbin's numbers are accurate, which of course,
00:10:17.700 we should not assume that is almost certainly more than 10. But still, this is an argument that
00:10:23.900 completely sidesteps two very important issues. The first is that women are indeed losing opportunities
00:10:29.640 and being degraded in order to affirm the delusions of pathological narcissists. That's not something we
00:10:34.340 should allow regardless of how many women are being affected. It doesn't matter if it's 10 or 10,000.
00:10:40.780 The other issue, of course, is that a functioning society has to be able to accept the reality of
00:10:45.220 basic human biology. Even if you don't care about the injustices that athletes like Riley
00:10:50.220 Gaines have endured, and you obviously should care about those injustices, then you still have to
00:10:55.280 explain some basic terms. You have to explain, for example, what a woman is. You have to explain what
00:10:59.700 a man is. And as we all know, Democrats are incapable of doing this. This is why the women in sports
00:11:04.000 issue matters so much. It's not even about women's sports specifically. At least that's not the
00:11:09.580 fundamental issue. The fundamental issue is one of truth, basic truth. And that's why it matters.
00:11:17.120 Now, I want to play the rest of Durbin's speech because he eventually gets around to making another
00:11:21.080 argument. And in some ways, this is even more revealing than the last one. Here it is.
00:11:25.340 The bill, which has no enforcement mechanism, could subject women and girls to physical inspection
00:11:33.740 by an adult if someone from an opposing team accused them of being transgender. Think about
00:11:39.420 that for a second. Your daughter, someone in your family going to play a sport, and someone
00:11:46.400 on the other team challenges them. That's not a little girl. That's a transgender boy.
00:11:52.240 This bill that we're about to vote on gives authority to someone to make a physical inspection
00:12:00.960 of that little girl if someone from the opposing team accuses them of being transgender.
00:12:06.520 Does that sound a little extreme to you? Well, it sure does to me, too.
00:12:13.640 Well, you know, I went back and read the legislation that he's talking about, and contrary that he
00:12:18.720 himself has obviously not read, contrary to what Durbin says, there is nothing in the law that
00:12:24.200 permits a random adult or any adult to look at the private parts of a student athlete who's accused
00:12:28.980 of pretending to be a woman. So what he's saying is that Republicans are secretly obsessed with this
00:12:34.420 kind of perversion when, in fact, he's the only one thinking along these lines. That's not what
00:12:38.080 Republicans are thinking about. And this is what you always get from Democrats. He's like,
00:12:42.060 oh, you want to run into the locker room and check people's genitals? That's you.
00:12:45.380 That's where your mind goes. That's the way you're thinking, okay? No one on the side of sanity is
00:12:52.020 saying any of that. That's entirely your own imagination. So this is maybe a window into the
00:12:58.460 sordid mental state of Dick Durbin and Democrats like him. In reality, the bill simply bans men from
00:13:04.000 competing against women. That's it. You know, that's it. And everyone understands exactly how that
00:13:11.760 would be enforced because it's extremely painfully obvious when men are playing in women's sports.
00:13:17.860 You don't need any kind of examination. You don't need to test their chromosomes or do blood tests.
00:13:22.900 You just look at them. In every single case involving a man playing in women's sports,
00:13:27.300 that has been true. It has never been a close call. So when Democrats say, well,
00:13:31.560 how could you possibly know? How could you know if that man is really a woman? I don't know.
00:13:36.540 You can know just by looking at them for a second. I can look at them for a second from 100 yards away
00:13:42.420 and I can tell, okay? Just like everybody else can. It's not fooling anyone. That's how. That's how we
00:13:49.920 know. Of course, Democrats like Dick Durbin have to pretend otherwise. They'll watch a basketball game
00:13:56.080 and see one athlete towering over everybody else. You know, a foot taller, gigantic Adam's apple,
00:14:02.500 twice the muscle mass, James Earl Jones voice. And they'll conclude that there's just no way of
00:14:07.760 knowing, no way of knowing the athlete's gender. You know, you put a wig on Shaquille O'Neal and
00:14:13.680 there'd be no way. Who could be a woman? There's no way. How could we possibly know whether that's a man
00:14:19.480 or a woman? They act like it's a mystery known only to perverted gender inspectors who are going
00:14:25.620 around pantsing student athletes at every opportunity. But even though Durbin's side of
00:14:30.780 this argument was in the minority, Democrats have succeeded in killing the legislation.
00:14:35.520 That's because laws like this won't have to overcome a filibuster, which requires 60 votes. And
00:14:39.360 because the vote on this legislation was 51 in favor and 45 opposed, it won't pass.
00:14:44.740 Republicans have the majority, but they're not able to pass a law like this one,
00:14:48.240 which has the wide majority support of the American people. And so it's enough to make
00:14:53.900 you wonder why Republicans don't eliminate the filibuster just entirely at this point.
00:14:58.000 We all know Democrats will do the same thing the moment they have the opportunity.
00:15:01.240 They've done it before after all. And if Democrats are now so unhinged and so unreasonable
00:15:05.440 that they're willing to defend the idea of men playing in women's sports, then it's safe to say
00:15:09.700 the filibuster has drifted very far from its original purpose.
00:15:13.440 The point of the filibuster was to enable careful deliberation.
00:15:16.640 That was the point. Instead, at the moment, it's enabling insanity and it's enabling the
00:15:21.060 Democrats to stop a bill that almost every American agrees with.
00:15:27.020 So getting rid of the filibuster would also make it much easier to pass a pass this and
00:15:31.680 also pass a federal ban on child castration and mutilation in the name of so-called gender
00:15:35.920 affirming care, which is something that I've obviously been pushing for, especially since
00:15:39.860 the beginning of the second Trump administration.
00:15:41.640 And a couple of days ago, one of the most prominent Republicans in the Senate, Josh Hawley,
00:15:46.380 endorsed my proposal. He wrote, quote, and not just this, but when is Congress going to give victims
00:15:52.040 of these transition surgeries and treatments the right to sue the people who carried them out
00:15:56.260 needs to happen now, close quote.
00:15:59.340 This is the kind of legislation that Republicans need to enact as quickly as they possibly can.
00:16:03.840 Whatever procedural roadblocks are in the way just need to be cleared.
00:16:07.440 When Democrats are using the filibuster to obstruct the will of the vast majority of Americans,
00:16:13.740 of 80% of Americans, including their own voters, it's a very clear sign that the filibuster
00:16:20.220 needs to go. It has outlived whatever usefulness it allegedly had.
00:16:25.680 And once the filibuster is gone, we need to start passing laws that affirm the reality of basic
00:16:30.540 fundamental human biology. For the benefit of all young people and to restore some semblance
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00:18:01.640 after he tried to stab a bunch of random people outside of a Chick-fil-A. And Mayor Wu, Chairman Wu,
00:18:09.860 as I've seen some people online refer to her, which I kind of like. Chairman Wu was deeply upset by this
00:18:15.140 turn of events. She wishes that the crazed stabber had not been killed. She wishes that he was, I guess,
00:18:21.720 able to carry out his stabbing spree because that's his right. That's the right of, you know,
00:18:26.540 we know that according to Democrat mayors, mentally ill vagrants have a human right to inflict whatever
00:18:31.920 carnage they want for as long as they want until they get tired. You know, what should stop somebody
00:18:36.880 from stabbing people to death is just when your arm gets tired. That's what should stop them.
00:18:40.940 But as long as they have strength, they should be able to stab as many people as they want.
00:18:43.620 That's basically the position that these Democratic mayors have and Democratic DAs and,
00:18:48.740 you know, every Democrat elected Democrat in the country. So there was a lot of backlash
00:18:53.080 after these insane comments from Chairman Wu. And now here she is yesterday addressing the backlash.
00:19:01.520 What do you say to those types of critiques, her critique and those online?
00:19:05.300 You know, it's unfortunate to politicize being at the scene of a tragic incident. Our officers are in
00:19:17.580 extremely difficult and dangerous situations every single day, keeping our residents safe. And I
00:19:24.360 express condolences along with our police commissioner and district attorney, because every loss of life
00:19:31.980 is a horrible tragedy. I'm also grateful every hour of every day for the work of our Boston police
00:19:40.720 officers. And in this case, we had an off duty officer who saw something happening. His training kicked in
00:19:49.100 and took action and surely saved even more lives.
00:19:52.560 Every loss of life is a horrible tragedy. No, it's not. No, it's definitely not. The loss of life,
00:20:02.940 when we lose someone who's trying to stab people to death, that's not a horrible tragedy. That's
00:20:09.200 the opposite of a tragedy. That's good. Okay, I'm happy that he's dead. If I lived in Boston,
00:20:17.380 I'd be happier. If I could choose between having a crazed person who tries to stab people, if I could
00:20:23.980 choose between them being able to walk around free or be dead, I prefer dead for them. That's what I'd
00:20:32.460 prefer that. And that's obvious to those of us who are sane people. Now, as a reporter points out
00:20:43.360 next, she, as the conversation goes on, she didn't say any of this at the time. The bit at the end
00:20:49.460 about how the off duty cop was a hero and he saved lives. Even there, she didn't call him a hero,
00:20:55.040 I don't think. But she at least acknowledged that he saved lives. She didn't say that the day before.
00:21:01.380 When this happened, she didn't say that. She did not praise the officer at all.
00:21:04.920 She did not acknowledge that he saved lives or express any relief about that fact. She didn't
00:21:14.820 say anything about his heroism. She spent more time mourning the dead assailant than she did
00:21:18.940 praising the officer because she is, again, a psychopath. But let's go back again to what
00:21:24.160 she said to justify all this. She says that any loss of life is a horrible tragedy. And here's the
00:21:34.020 thing. If she actually believed that, which is not true, not every loss of life is a horrible
00:21:41.520 tragedy. The horrible tragedy on 9-11 is not that we lost the 9-11 hijackers. It's everyone else who
00:21:49.000 died, right? If somebody is killed in the process of trying to murder innocent people, the tragedy is
00:21:54.940 the innocent people if they were killed, not the guy. But if she actually believed that, if she really
00:21:59.380 valued all human life and valued it so deeply that she even mourns the loss of a guy who was trying
00:22:04.740 to stab people at a Chick-fil-A, if that was the case, then you could almost give her a pass.
00:22:11.540 But it isn't the case. And here's how I know that it's not the case. Watch this.
00:22:18.880 Across the country, we see that access to women's reproductive health care is under attack.
00:22:24.440 People think that we're leading the way on access to care, as we are in so many other areas. But the
00:22:30.320 fact is, we're not. Women seeking abortion are making a deeply personal decision. And that conversation
00:22:35.500 should be between the patient and her doctor. Our laws are getting in the way of that conversation.
00:22:41.660 I don't think that it is, that it should be a mass decision or a political decision.
00:22:49.020 What I can and can't do for my family in my body.
00:23:00.800 Massachusetts, we have to do better. Health care decisions should be made between a patient and her doctor.
00:23:06.380 That was Michelle Wu, a few years ago, appearing in a video to advocate for the Roe Act in Massachusetts.
00:23:14.700 That's a law that did eventually pass in the state, which enshrines the right to an abortion
00:23:20.460 at any stage of development. It enshrines a late term abortion. Okay. And, and this law allows
00:23:28.820 minors, children as young as 16, to get abortions without parental consent.
00:23:32.980 Now, Michelle Wu, of course, supported and advocated for that law. She is a far left Democrat,
00:23:38.880 which means that she is a vocal proponent of abortions for everyone at every stage up to the
00:23:43.940 moment of birth and probably beyond it. And everyone includes children without parental consent. I mean,
00:23:49.500 just think about that for a second. Think about, think about a 16 year old girl. And this is happening
00:23:53.940 right now in Massachusetts and in other states. A 16 year old girl going to an abortion clinic
00:24:00.120 and consulting with an abortionist without her parents being involved at all, or even aware
00:24:07.720 that it's happening. Who do we trust to have a child's best interests at heart in this situation?
00:24:16.680 The parent or the abortionist? Who's more trustworthy? Who's more likely? Who's more likely to care about
00:24:28.080 this child? Well, Michelle Wu trusts the abortionist. She's never met an abortion that she didn't like.
00:24:38.420 She's never met an abortionist she didn't trust. And so in that scenario, when you've got a, an
00:24:43.740 abortionist who has a financial incentive is going to charge hundreds of dollars, going to make hundreds
00:24:49.060 of dollars off of this transaction, financial incentive to do the abortion. We're supposed to
00:24:54.000 believe that that's the person that we trust. And that's how Michelle Wu feels about it. She says,
00:25:01.560 kill the babies, kill them all, kill them at any stage for any reason. That's her position.
00:25:05.880 And yet, and yet we're supposed to take her seriously when she says that the loss of human
00:25:10.740 life is always a tragedy. Always. There's a, there's a big asterisk on always there. You know,
00:25:19.080 there's quite a, quite a qualifier on always, because when she says always all human life,
00:25:24.240 she means all human life, except for the millions upon millions of unborn humans who have been
00:25:30.420 slaughtered systematically, uh, for the last many decades in this country. Speaking of, um, speaking of
00:25:40.560 which, uh, Casey Anthony has reemerged for some reason and kind of doing a bit of a rebrand here.
00:25:50.580 And she, uh, had an announcement the other day about her new career path and her career goals.
00:25:57.000 Let's, let's hear it.
00:25:59.720 The whole point of this is for me to begin to reintroduce myself. I'm doing this both personally
00:26:06.520 for me, but in a professional capacity, moving forward. The majority of what you will see will
00:26:12.360 be me speaking in a professional capacity. My goal is to continue to help give a voice to people
00:26:19.020 to give people tools and resources that they can utilize. So they actually know where they can turn
00:26:25.760 to. So with that, please join me on sub stack. If you have questions, I will set up an email address
00:26:34.800 where we can correspond directly up until this point that has never happened. And it's only
00:26:39.840 going to be on a limited basis regarding legal issues, legal matters. Um, one of the main reasons
00:26:46.320 that I'm doing this, there are people close to me who have been targeted and attacked recently. There
00:26:52.320 are also people close to me who have had some, some recent things occur and when necessary, people
00:26:59.600 needed to step up myself included. So as a proponent for the LGBTQ community, for our legal community,
00:27:07.920 women's rights, I feel that it's important that I use this platform that was thrust upon me and now look
00:27:16.400 at it as a blessing as opposed to the curse that it has been since 2008.
00:27:24.160 She wants to, uh, use her platform as a blessing. She wants to see it as a blessing. And just to be
00:27:30.320 totally clear about this, her, as you're probably aware, her platform exists because her daughter died
00:27:37.200 and her daughter, her young daughter didn't just die. Her daughter was killed, killed by Casey Anthony.
00:27:43.840 Uh, in my opinion, it is my opinion and the opinion of millions of other people, the opinion of
00:27:52.320 anyone who's looked at the evidence and has eyes that she's guilty. I mean, she was acquitted. Yes,
00:27:57.920 but acquitted doesn't mean innocent. I mean, she's, she's as innocent as OJ Simpson was. I'll put it that
00:28:03.680 way. Uh, I mean, this is a woman who actually had a Google search for full, full proof, proof
00:28:09.280 suffocation, full proof suffocation methods was a, a Google search on in her browser history.
00:28:17.920 Somebody made, somebody made that search on her computer on the last day that her daughter was
00:28:22.960 seen alive. That's just one of the many, many pieces of evidence. Uh, they found traces of chloroform
00:28:27.680 in the trunk of her car along with her daughter's hair and traces of, um, human decomposition.
00:28:34.320 So again, there were many pieces of evidence and it's obscene that she's walking free, but she is.
00:28:40.000 And now she's rebranding herself as an LGBTQ and women's rights advocate. And needless to say,
00:28:48.560 the LGBTQ camp and the feminists, you guys can have her. She's yours. She's on your team.
00:28:53.520 Congratulations. Um, and frankly, and I say this not as a joke at all because I wouldn't joke about
00:29:00.720 something as horrifying as this, that, that her history makes her perfectly qualified for, you
00:29:06.240 know, the, for that team because the Democrat party is the party of baby killers and, uh, and Casey
00:29:12.960 Anthony sadly fits right in. Okay. Let's brighten the mood a little bit. You've, um, uh, you almost
00:29:19.440 certainly seen this by now, but I did want to talk about it briefly. It's, uh, it is, it's right up my
00:29:24.560 alley in many ways. So Kieran Culkin, uh, won the Oscar for best supporting actor on Sunday for his
00:29:30.080 role in a movie called a real pain, which I saw. I saw that movie. There's a, uh, I think I saw
00:29:35.920 three or four of the Oscar nominated films this year, which is a record for me. At least it's
00:29:41.520 in recent times in the last couple of decades, that's a record for me. And so I saw that movie.
00:29:45.200 Um, it's about Kieran Culkin and Jesse Eisenberg, their characters touring Poland in honor of their
00:29:50.660 grandmother who had just died and was a Holocaust survivor. And the movie is, uh, it's, it's fine.
00:29:57.840 It's a fine movie. I didn't, it's, I don't think, I didn't think it was great. I don't think anyone
00:30:01.920 watched the movie and go, that was a great film. Uh, but it wasn't bad. Culkin's performance was
00:30:06.700 pretty good. He's a good actor. He was great in succession. Um, you know, if, if the movie business
00:30:14.080 that the film industry was in good shape, it's not the kind of movie that would win awards
00:30:17.640 because it's just like fine. You know, you give a solid B minus, um, you give it a 82%
00:30:24.000 on the report card, but kind of by default, it ends up winning some awards. Anyway, he's gotten a lot
00:30:30.340 of attention over the last day because of this moment from his acceptance speech. And in case
00:30:34.220 you haven't seen it, let's watch. This is, um, I have to thank my wife, Jess, uh, for absolutely
00:30:39.700 everything for giving my favorite people in the world. This is, please don't play the music
00:30:42.720 because I want to tell a really quick story about Jess. About a year ago, I was on a stage
00:30:46.160 like this and I very stupidly publicly said that I won a third kid from her because she
00:30:50.000 said if I won the award, I would, she would give me the kid. Uh, it turns out she said
00:30:54.780 that because she didn't think I was going to win. Um, but after, and people came up to her
00:31:00.020 and were like, you know, uh, really annoying her. I think, I think it got to her. But anyway,
00:31:05.420 uh, after the show, we're walking through a parking lot. She's holding the Emmy. We're trying
00:31:08.440 to find our car. Emily, you were there. So you're a witness. And she goes,
00:31:10.740 oh God, I did say that. I guess I owe you a third kid. And I turned to her and I said,
00:31:15.540 really, I want four. And she turned to me, I swear to God, this happened. It was just
00:31:20.380 over a year ago. She said, I will give you four when you win an Oscar.
00:31:27.240 I held my hand out. She shook it. And I have not brought it up once until just now. You
00:31:32.300 remember that, honey? You do? Okay. Then I just have this to say to you, Jess, love of my
00:31:36.600 life. Eve, little faith. No pressure. I love you. I'm really sorry. I did this again.
00:31:46.880 And let's get cracking on those kids. What do you say?
00:31:48.760 So it was a great moment. Very pro family. Um, a man who not only wants kids, but actually wants
00:31:54.620 an above average number of kids, if you can imagine. And, uh, we're just not used to seeing
00:31:59.500 that kind of thing from Hollywood. On the other hand, the fact that this is so notable and
00:32:03.240 encouraging is, uh, you know, it's kind of a sad statement in itself. It should not be shocking
00:32:07.180 that a man wants a bunch of kids, especially shouldn't be shocking that, that a wealthy man
00:32:11.140 wants a bunch of kids. Not that you need to be wealthy to have a lot of kids. You definitely
00:32:15.040 don't. So don't get me wrong. But if you are rich, then there's really nothing stopping
00:32:20.600 you. You don't, you don't need to worry at all about how you're going to afford it.
00:32:24.120 So why wouldn't you, I mean, why wouldn't you have a boatload of kids? And again, that's
00:32:30.220 really true regardless of your income level. And also objectively, it is just great having
00:32:37.200 a large family. It's a great thing. I know it won't surprise you to hear me say that I'm
00:32:41.260 certainly biased with six of my own, but it is, it is great. You should, you know, you,
00:32:46.060 you should have a lot of kids if you can. Uh, if, if, if you have a few, you should have
00:32:50.980 more. If you have no kids, well, get to work because it is great. And, um, you know, I was
00:32:56.900 thinking about this the other day. Well, I think about it all the time, of course, but the other
00:32:59.780 day, uh, when I came home from work and my five-year-old daughter was sitting at the kitchen
00:33:04.640 counter and she was coloring one of her princess coloring books or whatever. And then when I came
00:33:09.200 in, she popped down off of the stool and ran over and, uh, jumped into my arms. And then
00:33:14.320 my eight-year-old son was in the other room playing with his action figures. And my 11-year-old
00:33:18.040 son was outside shooting his bow and arrow. And my 11-year-old daughter was upstairs reading
00:33:22.460 and my two-year-old twins were riding their plastic cars around the house because we let
00:33:28.380 them ride it around the house and they've totally scratched up the floors, but it's fine. So it was
00:33:31.480 just so much life, you know, it was just so much life in the house. And it's an incredible
00:33:36.460 thing. How could it not bring you joy? How could it not be, uh, anyone's goal? And, uh,
00:33:44.180 I've had it both ways. I've come home to an empty house and I've come home to one full of energy and
00:33:49.040 life and love. And, uh, I am so much happier with the second option. I'm just so much happier.
00:33:53.760 It's so much better. It's so much better in every way. I cannot recommend it highly enough.
00:33:58.800 So Karen Culkin has, has the right idea. And you think about the comparison, Megan Basham
00:34:03.380 made this point on X when this video went viral that think about the comparison between this,
00:34:10.840 this video of him saying, Hey, let's have more kids. And the Hollywood actresses who credit their
00:34:18.500 abortions with their success. I think, uh, she mentioned the one, um, Michelle Williams,
00:34:25.200 I think was one back a couple of years ago. It was either at the Oscars or the Golden Globes.
00:34:29.460 And she got up there and talked about how, you know, getting an abortion, she wouldn't have been
00:34:33.120 able to do this without having gotten an abortion. Uh, you just, which is the more heartwarming story?
00:34:40.340 Okay. I don't care where you stand politically. I don't care what your position on abortion is.
00:34:46.580 Uh, it's, it's, what's more heartwarming. What's more encouraging?
00:34:50.200 It, it, to hear a man, to hear someone say, Hey, let's have more babies. This is great.
00:34:56.520 Or to hear someone say, well, I'm glad that I killed my child because otherwise I wouldn't
00:34:59.800 have had the success. And this is also kind of a rebuke. And I don't, I don't think he intended
00:35:06.860 it to be a rebuke. I don't know what his own politics are. I assume he's probably liberal
00:35:09.820 because he's in Hollywood, but it is, it stands as a rebuke of Michelle Williams because Michelle
00:35:16.080 Williams says, well, I wouldn't have been able to do this without having a bunch of kids
00:35:19.340 with it, without having killed my kid. If I had kids, I wouldn't have been able to accomplish
00:35:23.300 all this. And then you see people who did accomplish the same thing or more and they have
00:35:29.360 kids. So it is, it is actually possible. Um, all right. There are two subjects we discussed
00:35:38.460 prominently last week for some reason, and that would be Joy Reed and Lord of the Rings. And, uh,
00:35:44.080 now those two have come together in a, in a strange way. So I feel like I have to make
00:35:50.200 mention of it. It's actually kind of bizarre. You know, I was, I was ranting about both separately
00:35:54.240 last week and now they've come together in one story. What are the chances of that? So Joy
00:35:59.620 Reed over the weekend posted on blue sky, which is the little social media app where they go,
00:36:05.320 the left goes and talks to themselves. And, um, here's what she posted. She posted this.
00:36:10.740 We will never be a monarchy. Know that to quote the Lord of the Rings, uh, the Lord of the Rings
00:36:17.740 trilogy. Gondor has no King. Gondor needs no King.
00:36:25.100 Yes. The, the Lord of the Rings famously, famously the anti-monarchist screed, the Lord
00:36:31.000 of the Rings. That's why the third book in the trilogy is called, you know, the return of the
00:36:35.040 democratically elected president who will serve for four years and then be done at the conclusion
00:36:39.760 of his term. Right. Remember that? Remember that book when they made it a movie, that was a good
00:36:43.540 one. And as everyone knows at the end of that book and movie Aragorn, you know, he shows up to claim
00:36:49.060 his crown and they're like, sorry, Aragorn, we're a democracy now. So then Aragorn has to, he says,
00:36:54.920 okay, oh man. So he has to launch a campaign and he, he takes on, uh, Legolas as his campaign
00:37:02.980 manager and Frodo as his spokesman. And there's a series of debates and eventually Aragorn is elected
00:37:09.260 with a narrow electoral college victory. Uh, but then he's defeated, um, in, in, when he runs for
00:37:15.720 reelection by the Dorf guy, by who's the, uh, Gimli, which was a big moment for Gondor because it
00:37:21.480 was their first Dorf elected to national political office, kind of a, you know, sort of a break in the
00:37:26.220 glass ceiling there. It was a weird end, weird end of the book, to be honest, um, explains why it's so
00:37:30.220 long. Or maybe none of that actually happened. Maybe if Joy Reid had checked, not even because
00:37:35.940 when she tweeted this, a lot of people said, well, if you actually watch the movie or read the book,
00:37:38.880 you don't even need to do that. Just look at the titles, at least check the titles because the third
00:37:45.660 movie is in fact called the return of the king, because it turns out that Gondor not only gets a
00:37:51.500 king, but part of the whole point is that it did need one. That's like a key point in the whole story
00:37:58.540 is that it, is that it, it, in fact did need a king. It was his destiny to be the king.
00:38:04.160 And in fact, the, the quote Gondor needs no king is from Boromir. And in, in the movie,
00:38:10.040 when he says that phrase, there's ominous music playing in the background, which is a signal that
00:38:14.540 we're not supposed to agree with it, right? This is not supposed to be an inspirational moment.
00:38:19.360 And that's because he said that before betraying his friends and trying to seize the ring for himself.
00:38:23.940 And that is the character that Joy Reid apparently identifies with, which of course is no surprise.
00:38:30.880 And this is what happens. Joy Reid is so dumb that she has me doing the nerdy fact check. Okay. She has
00:38:37.740 me like pushing up my glasses, you know, well, actually Aragorn did, uh, become the, the rightful
00:38:45.960 ruler of the kingdom of Gondor. Actually, when I'm the one calling you out for butchering mythology,
00:38:52.700 then, uh, you, you know, you screwed up big time. So that's, that's Joy Reid. You know,
00:38:57.700 I was worried. I, as you know, last week, I was very worried that the end of her show would mean
00:39:02.860 that her stupidity could no longer be content for my show. And, uh, it, it, it were, you know,
00:39:09.860 a week later and she's back in the show. And so I think, I think we're going to be fine guys.
00:39:14.540 I think we're going to be okay. Let's get to the comment section.
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00:40:32.820 this episode. The snub of Am I Racist will go down as the greatest snub in Oscars history.
00:40:39.800 Yeah. Well, I mean, Stanley Kubrick and Alfred Hitchcock never won Oscars. And I would say that
00:40:48.580 my snub was greater. I think we can all agree with that. Or maybe not, because it's hard to call
00:40:57.980 Am I Racist actually a snub, considering that it never had a real chance at all. It was never really
00:41:02.880 in the running. I mean, it should have been, but in actuality, there was never any chance.
00:41:09.540 Because obviously, they're going to give the best documentary to whichever documentary was
00:41:13.900 most politically acceptable to the Academy voters. There was just zero chance of it working out
00:41:21.160 any other way. But by all rights, by all rights, we should have been nominated. So even if it's not
00:41:28.640 the greatest snub, even if it's not quite, you know, even if it doesn't quite beat Kubrick and
00:41:34.520 Hitchcock, it's still a snub. Let's see, another comment says, oh, you're terrified of losing Trumpy
00:41:44.340 subscribers too, aren't you? There goes your intellectual integrity. Well, I assume this comment
00:41:48.180 is about my take on Zelensky, which is funny because I've had the same take on Ukraine and
00:41:54.060 Zelensky since day one. Since day one of this story and the invasion, I've been saying basically
00:41:59.460 the same thing. So there's no history of me kind of calibrating, of me triangulating, trying to
00:42:06.980 figure out, you know, where Trump is, where MAGA is, and I'll decide what. It's not the case. I've had
00:42:12.180 the same take the entire time. But this is yet again, obviously just impugning my motives rather
00:42:19.240 than addressing the point, which is, which is all that political debate on the internet ever is now.
00:42:26.420 It's just, it's just that it's always, you know, we've talked about this. It's always now,
00:42:30.500 which is the laziest form of argument. It's the laziest and most useless form of argument
00:42:36.040 because there's no way to really respond to it when you say, well, you're only saying that because
00:42:42.120 of this. Well, there's no way you're, what you're trying to do is read my mind and there's no way
00:42:48.020 for me to, I'm the only one with access to my mind. And so, so the, the only evidence of what I'm
00:42:54.480 really thinking is just what I say about what I'm thinking. You kind of got to take that or leave it.
00:42:59.160 Um, but it also doesn't matter. Whatever my motives are for saying it, it doesn't really
00:43:06.960 matter. What matters, is it true or not? That's, that's what should, should concern.
00:43:12.460 Um, Zelensky is severely underdressed for the meeting, but he's still not as ridiculous looking
00:43:16.660 as John Fetterman. Oh, definitely. I completely agree. Um, well, the hoodie thing, you know,
00:43:22.800 because he walks around in hoodies and gym shorts and he's an American. So I would expect him
00:43:29.100 to have more respect for our customs and, uh, for the office that he occupies.
00:43:36.340 Matt, I've always admired you, but if you're prepared to label a man who's doing his best to
00:43:40.040 preserve his people in his country, a welfare queen, because he asks for help in the face of
00:43:43.680 cruel, violent, murderous aggression, then my admiration is severely diminished. I had thought
00:43:48.940 you an honorable man. Well, I must not be. I mean, how could I be an honorable man and disagree
00:43:54.620 with you? Uh, my, my, my, my, the, my honor depends entirely on agreeing with you about
00:44:00.340 everything it turns out. And, uh, so yes, I, well then I guess I'm not honorable. Look,
00:44:04.540 you can think whatever you want of me. Um, it doesn't matter to me. Uh, Zelensky cares about
00:44:11.180 his country. Great. I don't hold that against him. I care about mine. And what I know is that
00:44:19.720 he, Zelensky is not only demanding and taking hundreds of billions of dollars out of the
00:44:26.880 pockets of American citizens, but he is trying to pull us into a war that could easily turn into
00:44:33.240 a global conflict that ends in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans. That's what
00:44:37.960 I know. So yeah, I'm going to have unkind things to say about somebody like that because my priority
00:44:45.460 is my country. I understand it's not his priority. I don't expect it to be. I expect his priority to
00:44:51.760 be, to be Ukraine, but my priority is America. And when he comes over here and tells us that we
00:44:58.520 should prioritize his country, even though he doesn't give a damn about ours, that I don't,
00:45:03.080 that I take exception to. And when you, and when that's your position, you're only going to get
00:45:07.920 contempt from me. That's all you're getting. I'm not, I won't even dignify that with anything else
00:45:11.380 other than contempt. When you come from another country, you're a foreigner and you come here
00:45:16.160 and you dare to say, well, this is what you owe us. You should care about us. Well, you know,
00:45:20.700 what the hell, what has Zelensky ever done for America? What has Zelensky ever done for America,
00:45:24.680 for Americans? When has he ever demonstrated the slightest concern ever in his entire life?
00:45:28.820 What, can you give me one example, one time? No, but you, cause you want it to always be one,
00:45:33.560 it's supposed to always be one sided. We're supposed to care about every other country and go to war to
00:45:37.620 protect them and spend billions and trillions of dollars on all these other people. We never
00:45:42.260 expect to say, but we're never supposed to get anything in return ever. Um, we are supposed to
00:45:48.660 value, uh, the citizens of other countries in ways that those same citizens and the leaders of those
00:45:57.060 countries don't value us. We are, we are supposed to carry this expectation and this burden that no one
00:46:04.560 has ever carried. It's this, it's never worked this way for anyone ever. It's like you, you care
00:46:12.700 about your own country and the welfare and safety of your own country and your own countrymen. That's
00:46:16.180 how it's always worked. Except now, except in, except for modern America specifically, we're supposed
00:46:23.840 to be the only ones who, uh, value everyone equally or, or in fact, value foreigners even more than we
00:46:32.160 value our own people. And I just don't. So no, I don't want to see a single American life lost in
00:46:39.800 defense of Ukraine. And I would rather see Ukraine conquered. I would rather see it cease to exist as
00:46:48.140 a political entity, um, than see a single American die over it. Like definitely. I mean, of course that,
00:46:59.920 that should be the position of every single American. That's a completely rational position
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00:47:46.580 It probably won't come as much of a shock for you to learn that I did not see and have no plans to
00:47:57.500 see the film Anora, which apparently won best picture at the Oscars the other day. This is a
00:48:01.540 film that was a pretty low on my radar for obvious reasons. And if we're being honest,
00:48:04.560 it was low on the Academy's radar too. In all likelihood, it was their backup plan,
00:48:08.600 kind of their plan B for best picture after the lead actor and Amelia Perez summarily took that film
00:48:14.700 out of consideration by bad mouthing the patron saint of violent drug addicted felons who assault
00:48:19.480 women and try to rob convenience stores. After that whole debacle, the Academy presumably had
00:48:24.120 to spend a few days looking through the old tweets of everybody in the cast of Anora just to make sure
00:48:28.220 that they too didn't make the mistake of besmirching the good name of St. George Floyd.
00:48:33.320 And then when the background check came back clear, they decided to just go with that. So
00:48:37.120 if you're not familiar with Anora, because like everyone else in the country, you've never seen it.
00:48:41.420 Here's the synopsis. It's a tragic comedy about a prostitute or sex worker, as the euphemism goes,
00:48:48.200 who's hired by the son of a Russian oligarch who lives in a waterfront mansion. And then after they
00:48:52.680 party for a while and do other things, I suppose, they elope. There's a lot of scenes along the way
00:48:58.380 that can be fairly described as pornographic in nature, as you might imagine. In fact, that's most
00:49:03.080 of the film. And then, spoiler alert, the marriage doesn't end well. Somehow the sudden union of a
00:49:07.480 prostitute with the son of a Russian oligarch wasn't meant to be. Doesn't work out great.
00:49:13.020 So Anora is cast aside to her great shock and dismay. And then there's some drama with some
00:49:17.280 Armenian henchmen who kidnapped the prostitute and tie her up and gag her and offer her $10,000 to
00:49:23.520 annul the marriage, which is only natural in a situation like this. I mean, who among us hasn't
00:49:28.580 been kidnapped by Armenian henchmen after our impromptu marriages with the sons of Russian
00:49:33.180 oligarchs goes south. Relatable stuff we're talking about. And then it gets even more relatable
00:49:37.500 when one of the Armenian thugs develops some affection for the prostitute. And the film
00:49:41.460 ends with her trying to have sex with him. But then she changes her mind and begins crying because,
00:49:46.060 of course, affection is difficult under those circumstances, you know, circumstances that
00:49:49.640 are rather emotionally fraught. And and sort of that's the end. So for the record, if there are
00:49:54.420 any inaccuracies in my synopsis that I just recited, you should know that very honestly, I don't care.
00:50:00.240 This film is one of the lowest grossing best picture winners in the history of the Oscars.
00:50:04.280 So the odds are pretty low that anyone's going to call me out on it because no one's seen it,
00:50:07.400 even if I'm wrong about something. The larger point is that at the Oscars,
00:50:11.180 this film became a rallying cry for prostitutes, actors and actresses, along with many others who
00:50:16.420 are associated with this film, went out of their way to make this point as explicit as possible.
00:50:21.220 Here, for example, is the star of the film, Mikey Madison, explaining that she wants to,
00:50:25.400 quote, honor the sex worker community. Watch. Also, thank you to Kennedy Schneider. Thank you to
00:50:32.620 our incredible consultants. I also just want to, again, recognize and honor the sex worker community.
00:50:40.820 I will. I will continue to support and be an ally. All of the incredible people,
00:50:48.820 the women that I've had the privilege of meeting from that community has been one of the highlights
00:50:53.980 of this incredible, of this entire incredible experience. Big cheer, big cheer for prostitutes
00:51:00.140 there. So she begins by praising the incredible consultants involved in the film. And then she
00:51:05.220 expresses her affection for the so-called sex worker community as if they're two distinct categories.
00:51:09.960 Apparently in this one moment, we're meant to assume that consultants are morally distinct in
00:51:14.680 some way for prostitutes. Personally, I don't know what's worse to be a prostitute or a consultant
00:51:20.440 or a prostitute consultant. I mean, that's, I mean, that combines two of the most disreputable
00:51:26.600 professions into one. And then we're supposed to conclude that it's important to be a, quote,
00:51:30.560 ally of the sex worker community, which is a statement that that's so demented that you'd
00:51:36.240 probably be embarrassed to even joke about it in private. But at the Oscars, which were broadcast to
00:51:39.980 literally hundreds of viewers, it was an applause line. Yes, the message from this year's Academy
00:51:44.520 Awards is that we're supposed to be allies to prostitutes. We're supposed to watch about two
00:51:49.480 hours of soft core pornography, which is the film, and conclude that we're on the prostitute side.
00:51:54.520 That's supposed to be the brave stand that we take after watching this film. That's the grand
00:51:58.900 message they wanted to communicate to make us all enlightened. Of course, every pathetic,
00:52:03.500 sex-starved, lonely man on the planet is more than happy to demonstrate his allyship to hookers.
00:52:09.200 And those men don't need a film to make them think that way. But just in case they needed it,
00:52:14.460 Anora is currently available to rent on the internet for about $5. And things somehow
00:52:19.380 get even creepier when you realize that the director of this film, Sean Baker,
00:52:23.180 has pretty much spent his entire career making films about prostitutes. He's directed at least
00:52:27.500 five films about prostitutes by my count. And when he's asked about this, he said that his goal is
00:52:33.600 to legalize prostitution for reasons that he wasn't exactly clear about, but that's his goal.
00:52:37.460 I've been pretty outspoken about my stance on sex work. It's our oldest profession, yet it has an
00:52:46.780 incredible unfair stigma applied to it. And what I've been trying to do with my films is sort of
00:52:52.740 chip away at that very unfair stigma. Personally, I think it should be decriminalized. And I guess
00:53:00.860 through my work, through hopefully humanizing my characters that are usually seen as perhaps
00:53:07.220 caricatures in most film and television, it will help do that.
00:53:13.420 This is a guy who just won four Oscars for this film. He won for the original screenplay,
00:53:17.840 film editing, directing, and best picture, all for a single film about how important it is to legalize
00:53:22.260 prostitution. If you keep me track, that sets a record for most Oscars won by a single person for
00:53:27.280 one film. Walt Disney didn't even do that. Walt Disney apparently won four Oscars in one night,
00:53:32.300 but not for the same movie. So this is how the Academy is making history. They couldn't give the
00:53:38.300 best actress award to a man because that man was not a fan of George Floyd. So instead of doing that,
00:53:43.660 they'll shower the porno film with awards instead. Now you'll see various conservative commentators
00:53:48.560 online defending an aura and saying that it's actually critical of prostitution. And they'll point
00:53:53.000 to the fact that in the film, the prostitute is obviously broken and unhappy by the end of it.
00:53:57.280 And that may be true if Wikipedia's synopsis is to be believed, but the actual point of the film,
00:54:02.140 according to the people who made it, who I think are probably authorities on the subject,
00:54:05.860 is that we need to sympathize more with these prostitutes and legalize what they're doing.
00:54:09.520 I mean, that is their motivation. And in that light, it's clear that Anora isn't really a film so
00:54:15.140 much as part of a broader campaign to normalize and celebrate prostitution. It's not really a movie
00:54:19.780 that's supposed to impress you with its plot or characters or anything like that. It's a political
00:54:22.780 statement. In fact, it's as explicit a political statement as it could possibly be.
00:54:26.780 The problem is that the leftists who campaign to humanize sex workers, as we heard from Mikey
00:54:33.340 Madison use those words, when they say that, they have it only half right. Yes, we should humanize
00:54:42.240 them. I mean, they are human beings and their human dignity should be respected. But the way we humanize
00:54:48.660 and ultimately help quote unquote sex workers is to condemn, prohibit and abolish quote unquote sex
00:54:56.440 work. You cannot legitimize prostitution while at the same time trying to be an ally to prostitutes.
00:55:02.900 The way to be an ally to help them is to delegitimize prostitution and to drive it out of
00:55:08.760 polite society and as far back onto the fringes as we can possibly get it. You hear this slogan,
00:55:14.160 sex work is real work all the time. And that is a slogan that you champion if you're trying to
00:55:21.920 convince women to remain prostitutes forever. It's like saying that a drug habit is a habit just as
00:55:28.340 legitimate as the habit of gardening or stamp collecting. When you say that, you're not helping
00:55:33.160 alcoholics. You're abandoning them. You are consigning them to a life of misery and failure.
00:55:38.620 The people who made Anora wouldn't win an Oscar with that kind of message, of course, but it's
00:55:45.940 obviously the right one, which is why no one bothered to see this film in the first place. And that is
00:55:49.740 why Anora is today canceled. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for
00:55:54.620 listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed.