The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1554 - “Conversion Therapy” Bans Are An Outrageous Attack On Free Speech

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the Supreme Court is going to take up the issue of so-called

00:00:03.460 conversion therapy. Should counselors and therapists have the right to help their patients

00:00:07.500 overcome gender confusion and same-sex attraction? Or should that practice be banned by force of law

00:00:12.040 as it has been in dozens of states? We'll talk about it. Also, an explosive moment on Capitol

00:00:15.760 Hill when a Republican lawmaker correctly genders the trans congressman Sarah McBride.

00:00:20.420 And Disney is already trying to mitigate the damage ahead of Snow White's premiere this weekend.

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00:01:37.540 There are few weapons in politics that are more effective than mass disorientation. If you can

00:01:42.940 confuse people about obvious truths, then they become much easier to control. This is a familiar

00:01:47.280 tactic to most living Americans at this point. We are, after all, the first generation in the history of the

00:01:51.880 world to grapple with the absurdity that men can change their gender at will. But there's really a

00:01:58.180 whole art form to mass disorientation. It's not just about spreading big lies. It also involves

00:02:02.680 confusing people at every possible opportunity. And we're confronted with deceptions like this all

00:02:07.960 the time. Media outlets and purported experts will repeatedly tell us to assume something is true or to

00:02:13.600 accept some new framework, even when it's clearly false. And this can continue for decades without

00:02:18.260 interruption or pushback from basically anyone. Consider, for example, the topic of so-called

00:02:24.340 conversion therapy, which the Supreme Court has just announced it's going to address in a few months. This

00:02:29.240 is a case that could very well end up being really the single most important free speech case of our

00:02:34.940 generation. And we'll get into that. We'll talk about the specifics of the case. But before we do that, it's

00:02:40.100 important to recognize that conversion therapy, quote unquote, is a term that's been widely adopted by

00:02:46.740 every mainstream institution in the country. You can look through newspapers and media outlets going

00:02:51.680 back decades, and you'll find tens of thousands of articles and news segments using this term as if

00:02:57.700 it means something. And in particular, we've been told that it means something very bad. You know, it's

00:03:03.700 like using some sort of coercive tactic to force a homosexual patient to become straight or to convince a

00:03:10.980 trans-identifying individual that, in fact, he's not really transgender. Without exception, you're

00:03:15.920 commanded to think of these alleged conversions, quote unquote, as acts of unspeakable evil. As of

00:03:23.360 today, for instance, YouTube places a disclaimer written by the far-left group The Trevor Project

00:03:27.900 underneath every video discussing the topic of conversion therapy. I mean, they'll probably append

00:03:34.200 this disclaimer to this episode too. So if you're watching this on YouTube, you could probably see the

00:03:38.620 disclaimer below me as I'm saying this. And the disclaimer reads, quote, conversion therapy refers to a range of

00:03:44.660 dangerous and discredited practices aimed at changing one's sexual orientation or gender identity or

00:03:50.160 expression. Well, that sounds ominous. Dangerous. Conversion therapy, according to The Trevor Project in

00:03:58.800 Silicon Valley, isn't simply a bad idea. It is dangerous. It's like playing with downed power lines.

00:04:05.640 You know, you could lose your life because of conversion therapy. And indeed, the name conversion therapy is

00:04:11.080 intended to bring images like that to mind. You're supposed to picture, you know, horrifying scenes of

00:04:16.540 people strapped to gurneys and given electric shocks or lobotomies. But amid all this discussion about how

00:04:24.700 horrible conversion therapy allegedly is, the one thing you're not supposed to do is pause for a second

00:04:30.960 and realize that conversion therapy, at least as it's described by the left, isn't a real thing.

00:04:37.640 Okay, the leftist conception of so-called conversion therapy is a fantasy. It's like Bigfoot or the

00:04:44.400 boogeyman. It is a myth intended to scare people and disorient them. By endlessly warning of the dangers

00:04:51.740 of conversion therapy, the left has successfully reframed the debate so that most people just go

00:04:57.460 along with the general concept and assume that it's true, but it's not. Now, for one thing,

00:05:03.960 conversion therapy, when applied to gender identity, is an entirely incoherent concept.

00:05:12.840 To be very clear, they call it conversion therapy when a counselor or therapist doesn't assist or

00:05:21.820 affirm the attempted conversion of a boy to a girl or vice versa. Counseling that helps a boy accept

00:05:28.700 himself for who he is or a girl for who she is is considered conversion therapy, even though it is

00:05:35.500 the opposite of conversion therapy. In fact, what they call gender affirmation is actually conversion

00:05:43.220 therapy, and what they call conversion therapy is actually gender affirmation. They have completely

00:05:48.880 inverted the meaning of the word conversion so that trying to change someone is affirmation,

00:05:54.540 and trying to help them accept themselves for who they are is conversion. Now, there's arguably a

00:06:00.520 better case for calling Christian counseling around same-sex attraction conversion therapy in a

00:06:05.400 sense. The counselor would be trying to help a person overcome their same-sex attraction,

00:06:10.840 thereby helping them convert from gay to straight, if that's how you want to put it. But if that's the

00:06:17.180 framing, then, well, all therapy is a form of conversion therapy. You don't even need the word

00:06:24.840 conversion in front of therapy. Therapy implies conversion. All therapy aims to convert patients

00:06:31.780 from one state to another, ideally from a less functional state to a more functional one. A depressed

00:06:39.420 person might go to the therapist in order to be converted into a happy person. A schizophrenic might go to

00:06:45.700 the therapist in order to be converted to a patient who doesn't hear voices, and so on. So, at worst,

00:06:52.940 we have with conversion therapy an incoherent term. At best, it's redundant. And that's precisely the

00:07:01.620 reason that conversion therapy has become a rallying cry for the left. They know that they can't come out

00:07:07.440 and admit that they want to ban speech under the First Amendment, but when they cloak their speech bans by

00:07:12.920 claiming that they're really banning conversion therapy, a lot of people fall for it. In fact,

00:07:17.600 you know, I'm guessing that if you did a poll of the average Republican voter and asked them how they

00:07:21.380 feel about conversion therapy, a large number of them would insist that it's an evil thing and they

00:07:26.360 don't support it. The goal here, of course, is to force mental health professionals to baptize

00:07:31.900 as many young people as possible into the LGBT religion. And the easiest way of doing that

00:07:36.720 is to ban these mental health professionals from saying anything that might steer young people away

00:07:42.480 from that path. And that's why nearly two dozen states have outlawed so-called conversion therapy.

00:07:48.000 Several other states ban the use of government funding for the practice. If a young boy comes

00:07:52.680 into a psychologist's office and says that he's really a girl, then in many cases, it would be

00:07:58.080 against the law for the psychologist to disagree. The psychologist is legally barred from telling the

00:08:04.320 boy that he is in fact, actually a boy. This is among other things, a flagrant violation of the

00:08:13.260 first amendment, both because it restricts the freedom of speech and because it restricts the

00:08:18.260 freedom of the free exercise of religion. The government is telling counselors who are Christian

00:08:22.460 in many cases that they can't say certain words or communicate certain ideas to their patients. That

00:08:29.000 is if that's not a violation of the first amendment, then nothing is. And the counselor's clients who

00:08:35.820 are also often Christian are being told that they cannot seek this type of care. A grown adult with

00:08:43.600 same-sex attraction is under these laws prohibited from seeking care to overcome that attraction.

00:08:50.940 The law is saying that the same-sex attracted person who wants to be straight is not allowed to want

00:08:56.160 that. This is a position that the left has staked out, even though it obviously contradicts their

00:09:01.620 supposed commitment to keeping the government out of the doctor's office, how quickly that principle

00:09:07.280 goes out the window when there's free speech to ban. These are, keep in mind, these are the people

00:09:12.900 who also say that if a parent wants to get sex change treatments for their child, it's none of our

00:09:20.600 business. Remember, that was the case that Chris Hayes made to Bill Maher a couple of weeks ago.

00:09:24.500 None of our business. Stay out of their business. Whatever the parents want to do.

00:09:28.580 Okay, well, what if a parent wants to get treatment for a child to help them overcome

00:09:33.600 same-sex attraction? Isn't that none of our business? Well, suddenly all of that it's none

00:09:40.660 of our business stuff disappears. Suddenly it is very much Chris Hayes' business. Funny how that works.

00:09:48.260 After many years, as I mentioned, bans on so-called conversion therapy are finally heading to the Supreme

00:09:52.260 Court. On Monday, the court agreed to hear the case of Kaylee Childs, a Christian who's also a licensed

00:09:58.240 therapist, and she is banned under Colorado law from telling patients that there's no way to change

00:10:03.640 their gender. She's also banned from counseling them against a homosexual lifestyle. If Childs wins the

00:10:08.360 case, then dozens of state-level bans on so-called conversion therapy could be struck down immediately.

00:10:14.260 Watch.

00:10:16.240 This morning, a new Supreme Court case is moving forward that could have implications for LGBTQ

00:10:21.960 plus people all across the country. Yesterday, the justices agreed to take up a challenge to a

00:10:27.520 Colorado law that bans so-called conversion therapy. This is therapy aimed at young people who are

00:10:32.680 questioning their sexual orientation or gender identity. The practice is highly controversial and

00:10:38.020 unproven. It pushes gay, lesbian, and bisexual minors to change their sexual orientation.

00:10:44.240 Therapy also tries to get trans children to identify as the gender they were assigned at birth.

00:10:48.900 This challenge to Colorado's law comes after a Christian therapist appealed to the Supreme Court

00:10:53.960 arguing that the ban violates her freedom of speech. Colorado officials say the law is meant to regulate

00:10:59.400 conduct, not speech. Both a federal judge and a Denver-based appeals court ruled in favor of the state.

00:11:05.760 Highly controversial and unproven. But, you know, giving a 13-year-old boy chemical castration

00:11:14.420 drugs to turn him into a girl, that is proven somehow. Now, the core legal issue, as you heard,

00:11:22.700 is whether or not bans on conversion therapy constitute bans on speech or whether they constitute

00:11:27.360 bans on conduct. And the various federal appeals courts are split on this issue somehow. Now,

00:11:32.980 the Supreme Court is set to resolve this split among the lower courts. Just to dissect that a little

00:11:37.820 bit more, because it really is incredible. Democrats are arguing in court that it does

00:11:43.880 not violate the First Amendment for the government to punish therapists who say certain things to

00:11:48.340 their patients. They're arguing that therapy sessions are really a form of conduct, like a

00:11:53.640 surgical procedure, for example. And therefore, they can be regulated extensively by the government.

00:11:58.200 As lawyers for the state of Colorado put it, quote,

00:11:59.960 A professional's treatment of her patients and clients is fundamentally different,

00:12:03.840 for First Amendment purposes, from laypersons' interactions with each other.

00:12:07.720 Therefore, they want the Supreme Court to uphold Colorado's law, which defines conversion therapy

00:12:11.220 as, quote,

00:12:12.280 Any practice or treatment by a licensed physician specializing in the practice of psychiatry

00:12:15.900 that attempts or purports to change an individual's sexual orientation or gender identity.

00:12:20.980 And the ban includes, quote,

00:12:22.040 Efforts to change behaviors or gender expressions or to eliminate or reduce sexual or romantic attraction

00:12:26.200 or feelings towards individuals of the same sex. Now, what's left unexplained is how exactly speech

00:12:35.940 can become conduct simply because of the job of the person saying it. That doesn't seem clear,

00:12:41.200 nor is it clear how the law permits the treatment of detransitioners. These are people who often

00:12:46.200 want a therapist's assistance as they reject their own assumed gender identity, the false one,

00:12:52.460 and they try to embrace their actual identity. And under the terms of the law, that's illegal.

00:12:58.940 It's illegal. You're not allowed to give any treatment to detransitioners.

00:13:02.880 These are the kinds of problems you run into when you start regulating speech and pretending that

00:13:06.400 it's conduct. Now, fortunately, there are signs that this particular challenge will be successful.

00:13:11.180 The Supreme Court recently turned away a similar challenge to a ban on conversion therapy,

00:13:14.380 but they're taking this case. And the plaintiff that is represented in this case by the group

00:13:20.140 Alliance Defending Freedom, which famously defended the Colorado baker who didn't want to

00:13:24.680 bake a wedding cake for a gay couple. They also defended a web designer who didn't want to make a

00:13:29.220 website celebrating gay marriages. Alliance Defending Freedom won both of those cases. So they have a

00:13:34.140 very long and successful track record of affirming the right of free expression. But the clearest sign

00:13:39.880 that Alliance Defending Freedom is going to win this case is that the left's fundamental position,

00:13:45.140 when you follow it to its logical conclusion, simply does not make any sense.

00:13:52.480 Okay? So think about this. They say that sexual orientation is immutable and unchangeable,

00:14:02.200 which is why they claim that conversion therapy can't possibly work. But at the same time,

00:14:08.200 they also say that sex is very mutable and very changeable. Putting it mildly, that does not compute.

00:14:18.800 How can it be that a man might become a woman, but a gay person can't possibly become a straight person?

00:14:24.640 How in the hell is one a matter of self-identity and the other isn't?

00:14:31.660 And on top of that, to change your sex is to change your sexual orientation. If it is possible

00:14:38.360 to change your sex, then it must be possible to change your sexual orientation. This is the logical

00:14:45.200 problem they can't escape. If a straight man becomes a woman, and if he really is a woman, as they say,

00:14:50.520 then he has not only gone from man to woman, but he has gone from straight to lesbian. He's gone from

00:14:57.640 straight to gay. If sexual orientation is immutable, and if sex is mutable, it would mean that every

00:15:04.900 heterosexual man who transitions must transition into a heterosexual woman, which is to say he must now

00:15:11.060 be attracted to men. But that's not how it usually works most of the time. Usually by his own claim,

00:15:16.200 he goes from a straight man attracted to women to a lesbian woman attracted to women.

00:15:24.000 This is what quote unquote trans women say about themselves. They themselves are claiming that their

00:15:31.060 sexual orientation changed. Now, explaining all this should not be necessary. It's obvious to everybody

00:15:39.120 when you spell it out. And of course, that's why they come up with the term conversion therapy in the

00:15:43.620 first place. The entire purpose of inventing the term is to obfuscate as much as possible so that

00:15:48.900 the issue is so muddled that no one can follow the logic anymore. It is yet another tool of mass

00:15:54.640 disorientation created by activists for their own political ends. But in just a few months, these

00:15:59.980 activists will have to take their case to the Supreme Court. They will have to convince the justices that

00:16:03.960 a ban on speech isn't really a ban on speech. It's the kind of self-defeating argument that gender

00:16:09.180 activists have successfully relied on for years because no one's ever challenged it. But that's

00:16:14.340 changing now. There's a very real chance that the LGBT club is about to lose one of its most important

00:16:19.160 tools for indoctrinating the youth if the decision goes the way we think it will. And for the benefit

00:16:25.160 of millions of children seeking mental health services, as well as anyone who values the First

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00:18:10.380 So this was a fun moment yesterday, a congressional hearing. Representative Keith Self is recognizing

00:18:17.240 Sarah McBride, the trans congressman, but another representative, Bill Keating, does not like how

00:18:24.020 Self introduces McBride, and that leads to this rather hilarious exchange. Let's listen to it.

00:18:33.660 I now recognize the representative from Delaware, Mr. McBride.

00:18:39.280 Thank you, Madam Chair. Ranking Member Keating, also wonderful.

00:18:42.920 Mr. Chairman, could you repeat your introduction again, please?

00:18:45.940 Yes, it's a, it's a, we have set the standard on the floor of the House, and I'm simply.

00:18:54.080 What is that standard, Mr. Chairman?

00:18:57.100 Would you repeat what you just said when you introduced a duly elected representative from the United States of America, please?

00:19:04.300 I will. The representative from Delaware, Mr. McBride.

00:19:08.860 Mr. Chairman, you are out of order.

00:19:12.900 Mr. Chairman, have you no decency?

00:19:15.940 I mean, I've come to know you a little bit, but this is not decent.

00:19:19.300 We will continue this hearing.

00:19:20.560 You will not continue it with me unless you introduce a duly elected representative the right way.

00:19:28.020 This hearing is adjourned.

00:19:30.340 Have you no decency?

00:19:32.260 I don't think I've ever heard someone use that phrase in real life, non-sarcastically, so that was a lot of fun.

00:19:37.160 I was kind of expecting him to drop maybe a, why I never, next.

00:19:42.320 That would have been, that would have been great.

00:19:44.560 Anyway, representative self is quite obviously in the right here.

00:19:48.880 Bill Keating is humiliating himself in an attempt to virtue signal.

00:19:52.380 McBride is a man, that's a fact.

00:19:53.660 We aren't going to lie.

00:19:55.760 We're not playing along with the charade.

00:19:58.060 And that's it.

00:19:59.900 It's Mr. McBride.

00:20:01.320 That's what he is.

00:20:05.340 Now, and he can identify as whatever he wants.

00:20:08.540 He can see himself however he wants to see himself.

00:20:10.400 He can say whatever he wants to say about himself.

00:20:12.700 But he cannot force other people to play along or force other people to say the words that he wants them to say.

00:20:19.680 That's not how it works.

00:20:21.680 But what I really want to highlight here is the progress, the progress that we've seen.

00:20:26.480 Because five years ago, this moment would have been pretty unimaginable.

00:20:31.000 Five years ago, almost every elected Republican in national office would have respected the pronouns.

00:20:36.800 And they were respecting the pronouns five years ago.

00:20:39.060 Now, there wasn't a trans congressman back then, but they were respected pronouns.

00:20:46.260 And now we have Republicans referring to this man as a man during hearings.

00:20:52.180 And this is not the first time.

00:20:53.180 It happened a couple of weeks ago.

00:20:55.060 And, of course, there's been the Republican backlash against McBride using the women's room.

00:21:00.420 So just altogether, his reception by Republicans has been quite different from what it would have been five years ago.

00:21:07.780 Or even two or three years ago.

00:21:10.200 This is a different climate.

00:21:11.760 It's a different world.

00:21:13.460 And that's the big takeaway.

00:21:15.000 Now, the Democrats, on the other hand, have not changed.

00:21:19.360 Democrats react the same way to this sort of thing as they would have five years ago.

00:21:23.540 They have not changed.

00:21:24.720 They seem basically prepared to ride the trans train all the way over the cliff until it splatters on the rocks down below.

00:21:32.460 I mean, they're going to ride this thing to the end.

00:21:34.120 And the trans agenda has almost single-handedly destroyed the Democrat Party.

00:21:39.160 I mean, it really has.

00:21:40.540 If I were a Democrat, I would be far more ticked off at the McBrides of the world than at Republicans.

00:21:50.400 Because they're the ones who have driven my party into total irrelevance.

00:21:54.540 All for the sake of this tiny fraction of the population.

00:22:00.460 As a Democrat, that's how I would see it.

00:22:03.780 That our whole political operation, our whole agenda has been completely destroyed by these trans activists.

00:22:13.140 They have almost single-handedly ruined everything if you're a Democrat.

00:22:21.940 And I'm sure many Democrats do feel that way, but they can't say it.

00:22:25.320 They'll never say it.

00:22:26.100 They cannot say it.

00:22:27.160 They lack the courage.

00:22:28.200 They lack the will.

00:22:28.920 They lack the backbone to extricate themselves from this madness.

00:22:32.900 So it will destroy them.

00:22:35.780 And you love to see it.

00:22:39.100 You love to see it.

00:22:40.100 So here's some good news from the Texarkana Gazette.

00:22:45.220 The Texas Senate is poised to pass legislation requiring public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments,

00:22:50.140 one of several Republican-led efforts, to blend religious concepts with education.

00:22:54.540 Senate Bill 10 instructs elementary and secondary school classrooms to conspicuously display a 16-inch by 20-inch poster

00:23:01.180 or framed copy of the Ten Commandments in type large enough to be legible for a person with average vision from anywhere in the classroom.

00:23:10.100 And so that's the proposal.

00:23:11.520 It looks like it's going to become law.

00:23:14.420 It won't surprise you to learn that—and this is—there have been a few states recently that have passed laws like this.

00:23:20.960 It won't surprise you to learn that I'm very much a fan of this.

00:23:24.260 I think the Ten Commandments should be in every school, and there are multiple arguments for it.

00:23:29.220 And each argument is decisive on its own.

00:23:31.720 You don't need any more arguments, right?

00:23:33.420 But I'll give you a few.

00:23:34.580 I'll give you two at least.

00:23:35.700 And the first, I think, is the most obvious, which is that the Ten Commandments have incredibly indispensable historical significance.

00:23:45.580 They are on a very, very short list for the most influential and important things ever put to paper or to stone and then papyrus, I suppose.

00:23:56.700 And even if you're a secularist or some other, you know, non-Abrahamic religion, and you—so, you know, you don't believe the Ten Commandments were given to us by God, and you don't think they were ever put to stone.

00:24:08.540 God did not pass them down, or there is no God, right?

00:24:11.460 Even if you think, well, you're wrong, but if you think that, even so, on a historical level, that would still make them one of the most influential and important documents ever written.

00:24:25.920 A child who makes it through 13 years of K-12 education and cannot recite the Ten Commandments from memory in order does not have even basic historical literacy.

00:24:39.600 Okay, that's an essentially illiterate child.

00:24:47.240 And yet, how many high school graduates who just walked across—they're going to walk across the stage, you know, in May or June this year.

00:24:58.160 How many of them, if you ask them to name the Ten Commandments, could name them?

00:25:01.320 How many of them could give you five of them?

00:25:03.380 Just on a—again, a basic literacy level, that is a disgrace.

00:25:14.320 A disgrace for the education system and the teachers specifically, not for the kids who were not taught this stuff.

00:25:19.960 But beyond the historical significance, I go back to what we talked about yesterday, which is that our country is built on and foundationally constructed on not secularism, but Christian faith.

00:25:31.280 Our education system should actually reflect that fact.

00:25:36.840 And I don't mean that every child should be required to profess Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior or they'll fail out of school.

00:25:45.060 I mean, don't tempt me.

00:25:46.380 Don't tempt me with a proposal like that, but that's not what I'm saying.

00:25:50.020 I'm just saying that this is the foundational identity of our country.

00:25:54.380 It is our core.

00:25:55.120 And our education system, if we're going to have a public education system, needs to reflect some kind of national identity.

00:26:02.200 Public education system means national education system, which means it will reflect and be based on and around our national identity.

00:26:11.080 The left wants our national identity to be left-wing secular.

00:26:17.800 You know, they want a left-wing secular national identity, which is why they want a left-wing secular public education system, national education system.

00:26:27.960 And I reject that.

00:26:29.800 So the point is that this is not a choice between having an education system that is rooted in the Christian moral tradition or an education system that's just neutral.

00:26:49.140 Those are not the choices.

00:26:50.180 Okay, the education system is going to be rooted in something.

00:26:56.140 It's going to be rooted in some kind of perspective.

00:27:00.760 There is no such thing as education apart from moral instruction.

00:27:05.900 There is no such thing as a morally neutral education.

00:27:09.360 It doesn't exist.

00:27:10.800 It cannot exist.

00:27:12.160 It has never existed anywhere ever and will never exist.

00:27:15.300 To educate children is to not only tell them facts that they should know, it is to form them into the kinds of people that we think they should be.

00:27:28.660 Right?

00:27:29.100 That's the purpose of education.

00:27:30.540 It's why I don't send my kids to public school, because I don't trust the public school system to form my kids into the people they should be.

00:27:37.420 The public school system will form my kids into the people that the public school system thinks they should be.

00:27:42.280 But I disagree with what the public school system thinks my kids should be.

00:27:47.020 So, the school system right now, the supposedly secular school system, imparts moral teachings on kids all the time.

00:27:58.640 And mostly, nobody objects.

00:28:00.920 Because if rather than the Ten Commandments, the schools hung posters that said, you know, thou shall be tolerant, thou shall be kind, be open, be inclusive, be open-minded, be welcoming.

00:28:14.600 And schools do have posters like that all over the place.

00:28:18.080 Every school does.

00:28:19.580 It might not say thou shall, but it does say, you know, it does have the be tolerant, be kind, be open-minded, and all this kind of stuff.

00:28:28.160 And nobody on the left objects to that.

00:28:30.920 In fact, they want that.

00:28:33.020 And very few people at all object to it, in fact.

00:28:37.040 But, you know, those are commandments in their own right.

00:28:42.300 Be tolerant is a commandment.

00:28:44.360 It is a moral principle.

00:28:45.960 It is a moral instruction.

00:28:47.300 It's not science.

00:28:50.160 There's nothing in science that says we should be tolerant.

00:28:52.660 There's nothing, it's not some objective fact about the universe.

00:28:58.260 Right?

00:28:58.660 It's a moral, it's a moral, it's a moral instruction.

00:29:02.740 But who is that moral instruction, that moral commandment coming from?

00:29:06.860 They don't want to take the Ten Commandments because they came from God, even though they don't even believe in God.

00:29:11.920 But be tolerant is coming from who?

00:29:14.460 That is the commandment of who?

00:29:17.640 The guidance counselor?

00:29:18.980 No, actually, it's a commandment coming from our secular liberal culture.

00:29:23.060 That's where it's coming from.

00:29:24.060 So, we can have commandments in the schools that are ancient and have served as the foundation of Western civilization for many, many centuries.

00:29:32.380 Or, we can have commandments that were devised by secular liberal culture ten minutes ago.

00:29:38.820 Either way, you have commandments.

00:29:40.180 And, you know, I prefer the originals, I guess is what I'm saying.

00:29:47.820 All right.

00:29:49.980 This is some, I think, quite revealing footage that's been circulating.

00:29:58.060 It's from, apparently, an Instagram account that, I guess, goes around and films stuff like this, people kind of living their lives.

00:30:05.500 And here we have a couple of homeless people who are no longer homeless, technically, because they were given free public housing.

00:30:11.200 And it's just a short clip of them, it seems, shortly after they moved into this public housing arrangement.

00:30:19.500 And this is how they reacted to it.

00:30:21.340 This is how they are responding to being taken off the street, rescued, you'd think, from this life of vagrancy.

00:30:29.020 But here's how they feel about it.

00:30:32.220 I don't want to be in government housing.

00:30:35.040 This is Isabella Towers, an apartment complex in Knoxville, Tennessee.

00:30:39.640 It's just terrible.

00:30:41.380 And it's just too small.

00:30:43.080 But you could kind of make this nice about the size of mine back home now.

00:30:47.180 Come on, we've got to learn a little gratitude.

00:30:49.520 This is a heater.

00:30:51.260 I would prefer this personally to living on the street.

00:30:53.980 It's about the same, really.

00:30:55.540 It's really about the same because we would have more freedom out there, though.

00:30:59.320 We wouldn't care if we lost it today.

00:31:01.660 You wouldn't care?

00:31:02.680 No.

00:31:03.340 Got the TV, AC, shower.

00:31:06.440 The only two things I've...

00:31:08.240 Yeah.

00:31:08.800 We consider this still homeless.

00:31:11.220 I mean, I still believe.

00:31:12.440 I want to live in a house.

00:31:14.020 To where I could actually go outside and do yard work.

00:31:16.520 Achieving that from this place is substantially easier than achieving that from the streets.

00:31:24.540 Not really.

00:31:25.320 It's much easier to do on the streets.

00:31:27.140 It doesn't have a window factor.

00:31:29.260 But I would say this is a good transitionary point.

00:31:32.200 Have a place where you can take a shower, freshen up, and then go to work.

00:31:35.980 Start saving money.

00:31:37.140 Open up a bank account.

00:31:38.480 It has a lot of potential.

00:31:39.980 And then from there, you can eventually have your first bathroom security for a place that you actually...

00:31:44.840 That we actually want.

00:31:46.580 Did you get anything that you could use?

00:31:50.760 Okay.

00:31:51.200 So they're given free housing.

00:31:52.500 They have a bathroom, a shower, AC, kitchen bed, a door they can lock, you know.

00:31:58.300 And you would think much better than sleeping on a cardboard box out on the street or under a bridge or something.

00:32:05.580 But they're not satisfied with it.

00:32:06.840 They say that it's no better than being on the street.

00:32:09.300 They want a bigger place with a yard.

00:32:10.640 They won't accept anything less than 3,000 square feet and five acres, you know.

00:32:17.840 Meanwhile, if you look at the video, you can see that they've already totally destroyed this place that they were given.

00:32:21.800 It's a disgusting, filthy pigsty.

00:32:24.560 Trash everywhere.

00:32:26.580 And this is what you get.

00:32:28.920 People don't want to hear it.

00:32:30.880 People don't want to hear it.

00:32:32.880 Very few people.

00:32:33.840 We always hear about, let's have an honest conversation about this and that.

00:32:37.020 Well, when are we going to have the honest conversation about homelessness?

00:32:42.580 That's a conversation that very few people want to have.

00:32:45.560 Even though we all kind of know, you know, and it's one of those classic sort of conversations that you have in your living room, but people don't want to say it out loud.

00:32:53.380 But, you know, at a certain point, we just have to be real about it.

00:33:03.940 That you give homeless people free housing and they destroy it and they complain about it and they don't want it and they end up back on the street.

00:33:14.320 This is the way it works.

00:33:16.140 Totally predictable.

00:33:16.880 And by the way, many, you know, you talk to people that work with the homeless, you talk to people who, anyone who's tried to help the homeless in any way, everyone has a similar story.

00:33:29.800 I mean, I'll never forget, my sister has a story of seeing a homeless person in a parking lot once.

00:33:36.980 And, you know, it's just an anecdote, but like there's just many, just symptomatic of the larger problem, but didn't want to give cash because, you know, not really excited about the idea of helping someone's drug habit.

00:33:53.400 So she gave, I think it was a homeless woman.

00:33:56.560 She gave the woman a gift card.

00:33:58.300 She went out and she went to a local takeout place and got a gift card for whatever it was, you know, 20, 30 bucks to go get some food.

00:34:09.820 And the homeless woman complained that she didn't like that restaurant.

00:34:13.920 I mean, they say beggars can't be choosers, but it turns out the beggars very often are choosers, at least in these kinds of cases.

00:34:25.700 So I've said many times on the show, and I've been mocked for it every time, that you cannot fix homelessness by giving people homes.

00:34:34.920 I know when I say that, it's very easy.

00:34:36.360 What do you mean?

00:34:37.080 They're homeless, Matt.

00:34:38.340 Of course you can fix it by giving them homes.

00:34:41.100 No, you can't.

00:34:43.000 You moron.

00:34:43.920 You, this is what happens.

00:34:47.540 The problem with homeless people is not that they don't have homes.

00:34:50.540 The lack of homes is not actually the issue.

00:34:52.420 I know it's shocking for some of the dumbest among us to hear that.

00:34:57.800 You know, the homelessness is a symptom.

00:34:59.680 It's a result of the problem.

00:35:02.680 It's not the actual problem.

00:35:04.820 And we know that because when you give them free housing, this is what happens.

00:35:09.900 They destroy it, first of all, and then they're back on the street.

00:35:14.180 Okay, you could give every homeless person in America a free house with three square meals a day for free,

00:35:20.000 and we would have zero homelessness in America for about a week.

00:35:24.720 And within two weeks, we'd have the same amount that we had before.

00:35:28.120 And that's obviously the case.

00:35:31.600 It's obvious because in most cases, if a homeless person really wanted to be in a house, they could be.

00:35:39.860 They're not out on the street because they couldn't get a job and they couldn't afford a house.

00:35:45.360 The vast majority of these people are not trying to get jobs or get houses.

00:35:50.200 And when you see someone on the side of the road, you know, with the change cup, like, they're not...

00:35:55.860 This is not someone who's trying every single day and putting in applications and trying to get a job.

00:35:59.940 But it's just they're not trying at all.

00:36:02.760 They're really not...

00:36:03.820 They're most likely making basically zero attempt to change their situation.

00:36:09.680 In fact, they're so uninterested in finding housing that, again, if you give them housing,

00:36:16.280 they'll end up back on the street in many, many cases.

00:36:19.520 Why is that?

00:36:20.180 Well, again, this should be obvious.

00:36:22.580 I think it is obvious to almost everyone whether they say it out loud or not.

00:36:25.300 First of all, many of these people are drug addicts.

00:36:28.680 The vast majority are drug addicts.

00:36:31.520 Okay?

00:36:32.840 I can't say for absolute certain about the two individuals in that video.

00:36:36.380 I don't know.

00:36:38.020 My guess, if I had to guess, I think it's a safe assumption,

00:36:41.680 that when they talk about the freedom of being on the street, they're talking about drugs.

00:36:48.220 He means he can do drugs on the street, but he can't do drugs in government housing.

00:36:53.240 Or if he does, he might get kicked out.

00:36:55.300 You know, homeless people are homeless in many, many cases

00:36:59.620 because they've dedicated their whole lives to drugs.

00:37:02.900 And if you give them money, if you give them, if you be very generous,

00:37:08.220 and you give them even, you know, say you go to a homeless person,

00:37:10.980 you give them $100 because you really want to be generous,

00:37:14.260 you might have just killed that person

00:37:15.840 because they're going to go spend it on drugs and overdose.

00:37:20.580 And they're apathetic at best about their housing situation.

00:37:25.300 And I don't know why people pretend they can't wrap their minds around this sort of thing.

00:37:30.060 But a lot of homeless people really don't actually want homes all that much.

00:37:34.600 These are, you know, often, often not desperate and starving people

00:37:40.860 who are yearning to be housed again.

00:37:42.420 They might be desperate in many ways,

00:37:45.560 but the yearning for the house part doesn't appear to be the case.

00:37:50.740 And again, anyone who's ever worked with homeless people knows this.

00:37:55.000 Whether they say it or not,

00:37:57.400 it becomes very obvious.

00:38:01.640 So, what do you do, then, about homelessness?

00:38:05.980 How do you solve it?

00:38:06.760 Well, you can't solve it completely.

00:38:11.420 That's the first thing we have to just accept.

00:38:13.800 You're not going to solve it.

00:38:14.780 There's not going to be a time when there's no homeless people.

00:38:17.560 But you can address it.

00:38:19.940 It doesn't have to be as bad as it is now.

00:38:23.080 It doesn't have to be like you can't walk down the street in any major city

00:38:26.120 because it's just strewn with homeless people.

00:38:28.900 It doesn't have to be that way.

00:38:30.460 So, how do you solve it?

00:38:33.580 Well, if you have the stomach for it.

00:38:36.700 The problem is that our leaders and a lot of people in general

00:38:39.520 just don't have the stomach.

00:38:40.900 They don't have the stomach to deal with these kinds of problems

00:38:44.320 the way that they need to be dealt with.

00:38:46.900 And there's really only one way most of the time.

00:38:50.240 And either you're going to do the thing that works

00:38:52.820 or you're not going to do it

00:38:55.960 because it makes your tummy hurt to think about it.

00:38:59.460 And then the problem is going to continue.

00:39:04.040 So, with homelessness,

00:39:06.860 well, first of all,

00:39:09.160 you need to crack down on drugs in a major, major way.

00:39:15.780 In a way that we, in fact, are not.

00:39:17.780 For all the talk about,

00:39:18.760 oh, the war on drugs has failed.

00:39:20.300 What war on drugs?

00:39:21.520 What war on drugs are you talking about?

00:39:23.580 There's a war happening.

00:39:25.000 There should be, but there's not.

00:39:26.460 Okay, I'll know that there's an actual war on drugs

00:39:30.320 when drug traffickers are being arrested and executed.

00:39:36.320 That's a war on drugs.

00:39:37.880 You think we've had a war on drugs?

00:39:39.420 Like, you ain't seen nothing.

00:39:41.480 A war on drugs is you arrest the drug traffickers

00:39:43.200 and you put them on trial

00:39:44.320 and you convict them

00:39:45.840 and then you execute them as mass murderers

00:39:48.300 because that's what they are.

00:39:49.120 So, that's step number one.

00:39:54.600 And number two is

00:39:55.280 you have to disincentivize homelessness.

00:39:57.860 And I know that it sounds crazy

00:40:00.120 if you're completely clueless about these things.

00:40:01.940 You think, disincentivize?

00:40:03.680 There are no incentives to be homeless.

00:40:06.500 What do you mean?

00:40:07.320 No one's choosing to be homeless.

00:40:09.760 Yeah, they are.

00:40:10.580 You just heard it.

00:40:12.060 You just heard it from two people

00:40:13.820 who said that they'd kind of prefer

00:40:15.560 to be on the street.

00:40:16.260 How do you disincentivize it?

00:40:19.960 Well, you take away the freedom

00:40:21.360 that he's talking about.

00:40:24.300 He likes the freedom of being homeless.

00:40:26.780 And what he probably means,

00:40:28.200 probably,

00:40:29.240 is that as a homeless person,

00:40:31.400 he can set up a camp wherever he wants

00:40:32.920 and there's no expectation of him at all

00:40:35.820 and he can do drugs openly

00:40:38.420 anytime he wants.

00:40:41.320 You take that away.

00:40:42.920 You take that freedom away.

00:40:44.400 You crack down on the drugs

00:40:45.620 you crack down on the homeless camps.

00:40:48.500 You start arresting people

00:40:50.060 who are doing drugs openly.

00:40:52.940 You arrest them.

00:40:55.240 People that set up camps on sidewalks

00:40:57.520 that should not be allowed.

00:41:01.820 People that do that,

00:41:02.920 you arrest them.

00:41:04.520 You ban this kind of behavior.

00:41:06.340 You strongly disincentivize it.

00:41:08.000 You crack down on the drugs.

00:41:11.440 Real, serious, ugly consequences

00:41:13.960 for the people

00:41:14.580 that are pushing this poison

00:41:15.500 into our communities.

00:41:16.680 That's what you do.

00:41:17.680 And if you're not willing to do that,

00:41:19.320 then you are not serious

00:41:20.620 about helping,

00:41:21.740 about solving this problem

00:41:22.620 or helping these kinds of people.

00:41:23.760 And I don't want to hear anything.

00:41:24.620 I don't want to,

00:41:24.980 I just don't want to hear it anymore

00:41:25.880 from people that talk about

00:41:28.240 their deep compassion

00:41:29.240 for people like that.

00:41:30.380 You have no compassion.

00:41:31.760 You, in fact,

00:41:32.200 are indifferent to them.

00:41:35.980 You see them as like

00:41:37.400 little puppy dogs.

00:41:38.740 You don't even see them as people

00:41:39.600 because you're not willing

00:41:41.420 to do the things

00:41:42.240 that would actually require

00:41:43.300 to help people like that.

00:41:47.240 All right.

00:41:48.300 Let's lighten the mood a bit

00:41:50.820 as much as we can.

00:41:53.820 Bit of a weird transition,

00:41:55.080 but Snow White

00:41:55.860 is finally coming out this weekend.

00:41:58.580 I believe this weekend's coming out.

00:42:00.140 And if you're planning to see it,

00:42:01.140 you'll be one of the very few,

00:42:02.180 I think.

00:42:02.540 Disney is scaling down

00:42:04.060 their plans for the premiere.

00:42:05.820 And right now,

00:42:06.480 they're in damage mitigation phase.

00:42:08.860 They've been in that for a while.

00:42:09.980 They're expecting

00:42:11.460 that this thing will flop,

00:42:13.280 which it probably will.

00:42:14.600 Then again,

00:42:15.120 you can never underestimate

00:42:16.300 the American moviegoers' appetite

00:42:18.580 for soulless corporate slop.

00:42:21.260 So it's possible

00:42:22.180 that after all of this,

00:42:23.340 it still makes a billion dollars.

00:42:25.460 We'll see.

00:42:26.160 I don't think so,

00:42:27.060 but it's possible

00:42:29.320 that it does happen.

00:42:30.820 And anyway,

00:42:31.260 Disney is releasing

00:42:32.020 a few last promo materials

00:42:33.800 for this film.

00:42:34.860 And I want to show you

00:42:35.840 a couple of them

00:42:36.640 just because,

00:42:37.360 you know,

00:42:37.540 they're funny.

00:42:39.740 First,

00:42:40.240 this is a sneak peek of a scene.

00:42:42.540 I think it's the first clip,

00:42:43.840 the first full clip

00:42:44.700 of a scene from this movie

00:42:45.840 that has been put out.

00:42:47.720 We'll just watch

00:42:48.320 a few seconds of this.

00:42:49.820 Watch.

00:42:49.940 Please.

00:42:55.240 You are saying?

00:42:58.040 It's just...

00:42:59.840 Your Majesty,

00:43:01.820 people are struggling,

00:43:03.500 and it may not be much,

00:43:04.580 but when I was young,

00:43:05.440 my parents and I

00:43:07.340 would pick apples.

00:43:09.200 We'd take them

00:43:09.720 and make pies

00:43:10.400 and then go out

00:43:11.000 into the village.

00:43:11.480 Pies?

00:43:12.480 Pies are luxuries.

00:43:13.980 They don't need luxuries.

00:43:16.040 It confuses them.

00:43:17.820 But sometimes

00:43:18.860 something small,

00:43:20.000 something sweet,

00:43:20.780 even,

00:43:21.240 can make you believe

00:43:22.700 that there's more

00:43:23.260 to being alive

00:43:23.960 than mere subsistence.

00:43:26.720 You know,

00:43:27.160 I really don't remember

00:43:28.200 you being this

00:43:29.040 opinionated.

00:43:31.000 My apologies.

00:43:33.020 It's just...

00:43:34.500 I feel they need

00:43:35.560 some kindness.

00:43:45.100 Fearless,

00:43:45.660 fair,

00:43:46.300 brave,

00:43:47.380 true.

00:43:50.000 How great.

00:43:52.260 First of all,

00:43:53.080 I know this point

00:43:53.860 has been made,

00:43:54.460 but this truly is

00:43:55.180 the worst casting

00:43:56.160 maybe in the history

00:43:57.660 of the film industry.

00:43:59.880 Has there been a film

00:44:00.900 with worse casting

00:44:02.400 than this?

00:44:03.720 And I don't just mean

00:44:04.520 the Snow White actress.

00:44:06.220 Obviously,

00:44:06.560 she's terrible,

00:44:07.160 but both of them.

00:44:08.420 These are the two

00:44:09.040 least charismatic actresses

00:44:10.660 in the business.

00:44:11.580 In the same film,

00:44:13.480 neither of them

00:44:14.080 make any sense

00:44:14.700 for their roles.

00:44:15.440 We've already covered

00:44:15.920 how Rachel Zegler

00:44:16.720 is a terrible choice

00:44:17.580 for Snow White.

00:44:18.800 Nothing about her

00:44:19.540 says Snow White,

00:44:20.300 and that's even

00:44:20.700 leaving aside the fact

00:44:21.320 that she openly

00:44:21.840 detests the story,

00:44:22.840 as she's said many times

00:44:23.720 during this disastrous

00:44:24.500 PR campaign.

00:44:25.380 But Gal Gadot,

00:44:27.000 who plays the queen,

00:44:29.220 the first problem

00:44:29.880 is that she's

00:44:30.500 the evil queen.

00:44:31.160 The evil queen

00:44:31.560 is supposed to be

00:44:32.580 envious of Snow White's beauty,

00:44:34.500 and that is just

00:44:36.020 not believable.

00:44:37.200 It is just not,

00:44:38.160 even in a movie

00:44:38.820 with magical mirrors

00:44:40.100 and dwarves

00:44:41.100 and all that,

00:44:42.440 in a fairy tale,

00:44:43.680 that strains my ability

00:44:45.780 to suspend disbelief.

00:44:48.000 I can buy

00:44:49.000 that this is a world

00:44:49.800 with magic,

00:44:50.600 it's a world

00:44:51.060 where dwarves

00:44:51.760 are down in the gold mines

00:44:53.480 and singing

00:44:53.980 and whatever.

00:44:55.000 I cannot buy

00:44:56.200 that Gal Gadot

00:44:57.240 is angry,

00:44:58.000 that she's not

00:44:58.480 as beautiful

00:44:59.040 as Rachel Zegler.

00:45:00.300 I cannot buy that.

00:45:01.920 And also,

00:45:02.260 Gal Gadot's

00:45:02.640 a terrible actress,

00:45:03.380 frankly.

00:45:03.740 I mean,

00:45:03.840 she certainly

00:45:06.140 is not a very

00:45:07.280 emotive actress.

00:45:08.900 She doesn't do

00:45:09.740 big,

00:45:10.240 over-the-top

00:45:11.000 sort of things,

00:45:12.520 but that's what

00:45:13.180 you need for a

00:45:13.840 Disney villain.

00:45:14.840 This is a Disney villain.

00:45:16.800 You need someone

00:45:17.220 who can ham it up a bit,

00:45:18.420 who can chew

00:45:19.440 the scenery a little bit.

00:45:20.420 That's what you need

00:45:21.080 from a Disney villain,

00:45:22.480 and Gal Gadot

00:45:23.420 is just not that.

00:45:24.200 So,

00:45:24.560 it just doesn't work

00:45:25.320 at all.

00:45:26.500 There's one other

00:45:26.960 Snow White clip

00:45:27.500 that I wanted,

00:45:28.220 that's making the rounds

00:45:29.460 I wanted to play

00:45:29.860 real quick.

00:45:30.400 This,

00:45:31.620 because this is

00:45:32.180 very funny.

00:45:33.780 The account

00:45:34.260 End Wokeness on X

00:45:35.480 had this a couple

00:45:36.240 of days ago,

00:45:36.940 and I don't know

00:45:37.420 when this was released,

00:45:38.400 but it's just,

00:45:40.580 it's a very brief clip

00:45:41.600 of some song

00:45:42.800 from the movie,

00:45:43.860 and it tells you

00:45:45.500 the origin story

00:45:46.540 of Snow White

00:45:48.300 in this new

00:45:49.120 reimagining of the story.

00:45:50.380 Listen.

00:45:52.160 Sharing secrets

00:45:53.520 with a stone.

00:45:55.600 My father told me

00:45:57.860 long ago

00:45:59.080 I braved a bitter

00:46:00.720 storm of snow

00:46:02.160 Is that a girl

00:46:03.860 I'll ever know

00:46:05.860 again?

00:46:08.820 So,

00:46:09.500 there you go.

00:46:09.960 That's the,

00:46:10.560 apparently the origin story

00:46:12.180 now of Snow White.

00:46:13.220 That's how they explain

00:46:14.140 Snow White's name.

00:46:15.900 She was caught

00:46:16.440 in a snowstorm,

00:46:17.500 so they named her

00:46:18.980 Snow White.

00:46:20.500 What was her name

00:46:21.340 before that?

00:46:22.280 Who knows?

00:46:23.760 Did they not give her one?

00:46:25.600 They wanted to see

00:46:26.160 what the weather

00:46:26.540 was going to be first?

00:46:28.220 And then they named her

00:46:29.160 whatever the way.

00:46:29.980 So,

00:46:30.280 what if her,

00:46:31.120 it's a good thing

00:46:31.520 it wasn't freezing rain

00:46:32.660 or sleet,

00:46:33.480 you know?

00:46:34.560 Her name could have been

00:46:35.440 gray sleet.

00:46:38.220 Her name could have been

00:46:39.180 70% humidity,

00:46:41.120 which would not have

00:46:42.040 the same ring to it.

00:46:43.720 And,

00:46:44.120 this is not,

00:46:45.300 needless to say,

00:46:45.800 the original story

00:46:46.640 behind Snow White's name.

00:46:47.900 In the original fairy tale,

00:46:49.100 she is named Snow White

00:46:50.180 because she has white skin.

00:46:52.220 That is what the name

00:46:53.620 refers to.

00:46:54.220 She has skin

00:46:55.640 as white as snow.

00:46:56.500 That's why she's named

00:46:57.240 Snow White.

00:46:58.900 And,

00:46:59.300 it's right in the name.

00:47:01.380 So,

00:47:01.780 this is,

00:47:03.140 as many people have

00:47:04.000 compared it to this,

00:47:05.420 it is exactly like,

00:47:06.880 exactly like,

00:47:08.440 making Black Panther

00:47:09.620 white.

00:47:10.560 You know,

00:47:10.720 it is exactly the same

00:47:11.800 sort of thing as if they

00:47:12.600 had Chris Pratt

00:47:13.700 playing Black Panther.

00:47:15.720 That's what they're doing here.

00:47:16.880 And the filmmakers

00:47:17.440 are obviously embarrassed

00:47:18.340 by it,

00:47:18.800 so they need to come up

00:47:19.620 with some new explanation

00:47:20.820 for why she's named Snow White

00:47:23.060 and then this is what

00:47:24.140 they came up with.

00:47:25.240 The lamest one imaginable.

00:47:27.780 And,

00:47:28.080 let me also say

00:47:29.920 one other thing

00:47:30.520 that,

00:47:32.160 we've only heard 15 seconds

00:47:33.580 of this song,

00:47:35.080 but,

00:47:35.320 the song,

00:47:37.580 the song is obviously,

00:47:39.120 obviously not an original

00:47:40.160 Snow White song.

00:47:41.320 It's a new song.

00:47:42.200 And,

00:47:42.800 it sounds exactly like

00:47:44.200 every song

00:47:44.980 in every Disney movie

00:47:46.080 for the past 15 years.

00:47:47.180 I mean,

00:47:48.720 they all really do

00:47:49.460 sound exactly the same.

00:47:51.200 And I have heard

00:47:52.040 more of them

00:47:53.680 than you might think

00:47:54.400 because I have daughters.

00:47:55.340 So,

00:47:55.760 I've heard a lot of these

00:47:57.200 new Disney songs

00:47:58.440 and,

00:47:59.760 they,

00:48:00.500 they all sound

00:48:01.480 exactly the same.

00:48:02.060 They don't even know

00:48:03.080 how to make songs

00:48:04.160 for their movies anymore.

00:48:05.300 It's kind of similar

00:48:06.160 to the Christmas song problem.

00:48:09.100 Right?

00:48:09.580 Nobody knows how to make

00:48:10.240 a Christmas song anymore.

00:48:11.500 There hasn't been

00:48:12.020 a Christmas song

00:48:13.060 that sounds and feels

00:48:14.600 like a Christmas song

00:48:15.540 for like 50 years.

00:48:17.980 There have been

00:48:18.700 maybe Christmas songs

00:48:19.580 that are technically

00:48:20.360 fine and right.

00:48:24.340 If you just analyze it

00:48:26.220 on a pure musical,

00:48:30.160 just looking at the melody

00:48:32.840 and everything else

00:48:33.580 and you listen to it,

00:48:34.700 you say,

00:48:34.800 well,

00:48:34.860 it's fine.

00:48:35.340 It's a fine song.

00:48:36.960 But it just doesn't feel,

00:48:38.400 it doesn't feel

00:48:38.860 like a Christmas song.

00:48:40.520 And,

00:48:41.080 I don't know why that is,

00:48:43.120 but that ability

00:48:44.760 to make a song

00:48:45.640 that feels like

00:48:46.340 a Christmas song

00:48:47.020 has been lost.

00:48:48.720 And I think that Disney

00:48:49.900 has a similar problem

00:48:51.020 that they don't know

00:48:52.620 how to make a song

00:48:54.120 that feels like

00:48:55.340 a song from a fairy tale.

00:48:57.140 They don't know

00:48:57.800 how to make fairy tale songs anymore.

00:49:00.560 They always feel like

00:49:01.760 these empty,

00:49:03.240 kind of,

00:49:04.660 derivative,

00:49:07.460 repetitive,

00:49:08.200 mediocre,

00:49:09.120 modern pop songs.

00:49:11.080 So,

00:49:11.540 just going to be bad stuff

00:49:12.720 all around.

00:49:13.960 And,

00:49:14.000 please do not support this movie.

00:49:16.700 Do not,

00:49:17.040 do not take your kids

00:49:17.900 and go watch this movie.

00:49:19.280 You'll be sending

00:49:19.760 exactly the wrong

00:49:20.840 kind of message.

00:49:23.060 It will truly be

00:49:24.440 an indictment

00:49:25.380 on the public

00:49:27.620 if this movie

00:49:28.740 is successful

00:49:29.640 in spite of it all.

00:49:32.560 And then,

00:49:32.940 and then they're going to,

00:49:33.500 they're going to do a sequel

00:49:34.260 if that happens

00:49:35.000 and we're going to have to deal

00:49:36.100 with Rachel Zegler

00:49:36.840 on,

00:49:37.520 you know,

00:49:38.140 doing,

00:49:38.620 doing more,

00:49:39.220 you know,

00:49:40.600 PR and interviews

00:49:41.740 and everything else.

00:49:42.200 We don't want to deal with that.

00:49:42.920 So,

00:49:43.080 just don't watch the movie.

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00:50:45.260 Wait,

00:50:45.780 I thought the left

00:50:46.420 likes electric cars

00:50:47.840 as green.

00:50:49.260 My,

00:50:49.560 how the winds change.

00:50:51.900 Yeah,

00:50:52.440 exactly.

00:50:52.900 I was saying this

00:50:53.500 on X last night.

00:50:54.360 It really is incredible

00:50:55.160 if you think about it

00:50:56.240 that Elon Musk

00:50:56.960 has done more

00:50:57.880 than any other human

00:50:59.300 on Earth

00:51:00.280 to promote

00:51:00.880 and propagate

00:51:01.520 so-called

00:51:02.180 green alternatives.

00:51:03.760 He is the world's

00:51:04.880 greatest champion

00:51:05.680 of what the left

00:51:07.200 would call

00:51:07.540 green energy.

00:51:09.080 He owns one of the

00:51:09.740 largest electric vehicle

00:51:10.600 companies in the world,

00:51:11.780 of course.

00:51:12.760 So by the left's own

00:51:13.900 climate change logic,

00:51:15.160 this guy has saved,

00:51:16.480 what,

00:51:16.720 millions of lives?

00:51:18.600 He's prevented

00:51:19.400 untold numbers

00:51:20.420 of hurricanes

00:51:21.120 and tornadoes

00:51:21.900 and tsunamis

00:51:22.960 and whatever else.

00:51:24.240 If they took

00:51:24.720 their climate change

00:51:25.360 stuff seriously

00:51:26.000 at all,

00:51:26.580 they would celebrate him

00:51:27.580 as an environmental hero.

00:51:30.460 They would,

00:51:31.140 happily overlook

00:51:32.880 all the MAGA stuff

00:51:34.300 because he is,

00:51:35.240 again,

00:51:35.460 by their logic,

00:51:36.640 saving the globe.

00:51:39.660 Whatever damage

00:51:40.600 he has caused

00:51:41.500 by Doge

00:51:42.940 and by sending emails

00:51:44.360 that frighten

00:51:45.180 federal workers,

00:51:46.700 you would think

00:51:47.780 that that has been

00:51:48.480 more than compensated

00:51:49.700 for

00:51:50.020 by preventing hurricanes.

00:51:53.480 How many hurricanes

00:51:54.780 would there have been

00:51:55.760 if Elon Musk

00:51:58.020 never existed?

00:51:59.760 Think about it.

00:52:01.940 Now,

00:52:02.120 of course,

00:52:02.500 the actual answer

00:52:03.300 is that Elon Musk

00:52:04.240 has not prevented

00:52:04.780 a single hurricane

00:52:05.480 and he has had

00:52:07.100 no impact

00:52:07.660 on the weather

00:52:08.260 whatsoever.

00:52:08.960 But that's my answer

00:52:10.720 as someone who doesn't

00:52:12.060 buy into the climate

00:52:12.820 change hysteria.

00:52:13.540 But if you do buy

00:52:14.220 into it,

00:52:14.880 then you must concede

00:52:16.560 that this guy

00:52:17.340 has saved

00:52:19.880 many,

00:52:20.480 many,

00:52:20.640 many lives.

00:52:22.600 And yet,

00:52:22.980 they still

00:52:23.480 are trying to destroy him

00:52:27.300 because they don't

00:52:27.800 take their own BS

00:52:28.960 seriously.

00:52:30.380 That's why

00:52:30.960 they are currently

00:52:32.240 in the process

00:52:32.780 of trying to destroy

00:52:33.980 one of the greenest

00:52:35.880 companies on Earth.

00:52:39.400 Let's see.

00:52:40.220 Another comment says,

00:52:40.840 even as a highly

00:52:41.480 pro-science person,

00:52:42.400 I honestly can't see

00:52:43.200 the tangible benefits

00:52:44.160 of constantly

00:52:44.920 spending billions

00:52:46.260 to send rockets

00:52:47.140 to a desolate,

00:52:48.680 uninhabitable,

00:52:49.980 frozen planet

00:52:50.780 far, far away.

00:52:51.720 Well, look,

00:52:54.060 I'm not going to

00:52:54.420 bore everybody

00:52:55.020 once again

00:52:56.020 with my speech

00:52:56.800 about the value

00:52:58.000 of interplanetary travel.

00:53:00.080 I won't go

00:53:00.820 into the whole rant.

00:53:01.880 I'll go into

00:53:02.780 a half rant.

00:53:03.660 I'll give you a half.

00:53:04.300 I'll give you a half

00:53:04.880 of the rant,

00:53:06.160 just a portion of it.

00:53:07.460 And I will say

00:53:08.380 that the downstream

00:53:09.380 technological benefits

00:53:10.960 of space exploration

00:53:12.140 are myriad.

00:53:15.480 They are almost

00:53:16.200 innumerable.

00:53:17.200 The space program

00:53:17.940 in the 20th century

00:53:18.800 gave rise to dozens

00:53:20.380 of technological,

00:53:21.160 technological advancements

00:53:22.160 that greatly improve

00:53:23.640 life on Earth,

00:53:24.740 have greatly improved

00:53:25.560 your own life.

00:53:27.160 Everything from

00:53:27.880 medical imaging

00:53:28.480 to different water

00:53:29.800 filtration technology

00:53:31.140 and dozens and dozens

00:53:32.180 of other things.

00:53:33.500 And that's because

00:53:34.220 when you try to develop

00:53:35.160 technology to go

00:53:35.960 to another planet

00:53:36.600 or to go to the moon

00:53:37.300 in the 20th century,

00:53:38.280 you end up developing

00:53:39.520 a whole bunch of

00:53:40.300 other stuff along the way

00:53:42.060 because you have to.

00:53:44.060 And necessity

00:53:44.660 is the mother of invention

00:53:45.600 and that is actually true.

00:53:48.740 It was the same thing

00:53:49.720 in the 15th and 16th

00:53:50.700 and 17th centuries

00:53:51.560 and the 18th century

00:53:52.320 with sea exploration.

00:53:54.320 The push to explore

00:53:55.540 the seas and to travel

00:53:57.300 around the globe

00:53:58.000 gave rise to all kinds

00:54:00.540 of advancements

00:54:01.260 and all sorts of new

00:54:02.400 understandings of the world.

00:54:04.340 Everything from

00:54:05.000 navigational technology

00:54:06.180 to even a better

00:54:08.120 understanding of nutrition,

00:54:09.700 trying to figure out

00:54:11.100 why sailors were dying

00:54:13.000 of scurvy,

00:54:14.220 right, and all that.

00:54:16.340 And then they started

00:54:16.860 to figure out, well,

00:54:17.820 about vitamins

00:54:18.540 and they started

00:54:19.220 to figure out

00:54:19.740 about the necessity

00:54:20.340 of fruits and citrus

00:54:21.760 in your diet.

00:54:23.940 So that's one thing.

00:54:25.480 If we develop the tech

00:54:26.440 to go to Mars,

00:54:27.080 we will also develop

00:54:27.980 along the way

00:54:28.700 all kinds of technology

00:54:29.980 that will make your life

00:54:31.440 better in immeasurable ways.

00:54:34.420 So that's the first thing.

00:54:35.420 The second is that

00:54:36.120 there is a value

00:54:37.220 per se in exploration,

00:54:39.160 even aside from

00:54:39.840 everything else,

00:54:40.320 even aside from

00:54:41.080 the technological advancements,

00:54:43.380 the push to explore,

00:54:44.460 to discover,

00:54:44.960 to find new places,

00:54:46.340 new planets,

00:54:47.200 to conquer, right?

00:54:49.460 This is a human drive.

00:54:51.760 You cannot have

00:54:52.420 a flourishing human society

00:54:53.920 without it.

00:54:55.340 A flourishing human society

00:54:56.960 encourages these sorts

00:54:58.400 of ambitions

00:54:58.940 and it gives men

00:55:00.300 with these ambitions

00:55:01.400 a place to direct them.

00:55:05.520 So,

00:55:06.800 I said I wouldn't give you,

00:55:08.060 I said I'd give you

00:55:08.500 a half rant.

00:55:08.980 That was probably

00:55:09.240 about three quarters.

00:55:11.740 Matt,

00:55:12.220 get your family some goats.

00:55:13.300 Get pygmy goats.

00:55:14.100 They're easy to take care of.

00:55:15.940 I'm going to go out on a limb

00:55:16.780 and say you'll probably

00:55:17.600 hate them,

00:55:18.340 at least at first,

00:55:19.080 but your kids

00:55:19.540 will absolutely love them.

00:55:21.080 I would, however,

00:55:21.560 caution against getting a billy.

00:55:22.860 They can go a little crazy.

00:55:25.160 Yeah, that's why

00:55:25.920 my wife and my kids

00:55:27.400 have been pushing me

00:55:27.920 for the pygmy goats.

00:55:30.440 Why?

00:55:31.780 What purpose do they serve?

00:55:33.580 What is a pygmy goat

00:55:35.020 going to do for me?

00:55:39.280 Like,

00:55:39.760 you could convince me

00:55:40.860 if you said,

00:55:41.640 okay, let's have goats

00:55:42.640 that we will raise

00:55:44.120 and then kill them

00:55:45.060 and then make a nice curry

00:55:47.060 with the goat meat.

00:55:49.820 That,

00:55:50.380 you could convince me

00:55:51.240 of that.

00:55:54.000 Curry

00:55:54.360 with fresh goat meat

00:55:55.920 sounds delicious,

00:55:57.420 but they don't want

00:55:58.980 to kill the animals

00:55:59.700 and eat them.

00:56:00.520 So then,

00:56:01.960 what purpose do they serve?

00:56:03.640 I already let my daughter

00:56:04.320 talk me into letting her

00:56:05.280 get rabbits.

00:56:07.500 And if you're getting

00:56:08.120 meat rabbits

00:56:08.820 that you're going to kill

00:56:09.720 and eat,

00:56:10.140 I get it.

00:56:10.600 But like,

00:56:10.940 these rabbits,

00:56:12.040 they don't do anything.

00:56:13.900 They just,

00:56:14.400 they're just there.

00:56:15.600 They're there.

00:56:16.380 That's all they do.

00:56:18.100 They sit there

00:56:19.080 and they run around

00:56:19.680 and they do nothing else.

00:56:21.940 So,

00:56:23.260 I need animals

00:56:24.580 to contribute.

00:56:25.800 Okay?

00:56:26.260 That's,

00:56:26.800 that's why they were,

00:56:28.720 that's why they were,

00:56:29.580 that's why God made animals.

00:56:31.500 For man to have dominion

00:56:32.700 over them.

00:56:33.520 And they need to contribute

00:56:34.560 to the household

00:56:35.120 in some way.

00:56:35.700 And if they don't contribute,

00:56:36.500 then I'm not interested.

00:56:39.580 So what the hell

00:56:40.340 will midget goats do for us?

00:56:42.800 What kind of contributions

00:56:43.900 are they offering

00:56:44.740 to the family?

00:56:45.480 Is my question.

00:56:49.940 Never mind the clothing

00:56:51.020 Matt wore at the speech.

00:56:52.120 Can we talk about the fact

00:56:52.820 that Matt clapped real dorky

00:56:54.560 anytime he applauded?

00:56:56.300 Prayer hands

00:56:56.880 versus crisscrossed.

00:56:58.120 Enough already.

00:56:59.100 Like,

00:56:59.380 can we,

00:57:00.580 have we,

00:57:00.960 have I been picked apart

00:57:01.800 enough from this?

00:57:02.960 Is there anything else?

00:57:03.840 Is there any other aspect

00:57:04.700 of my clothing

00:57:06.140 or my demeanor

00:57:06.900 or my physical posture

00:57:07.900 or my motions,

00:57:09.840 my hand motions

00:57:10.660 that we can dissect?

00:57:11.700 Is there anything else?

00:57:13.780 My God,

00:57:14.600 this,

00:57:14.800 this is hurtful.

00:57:16.560 Like,

00:57:17.080 this hurts my,

00:57:17.860 it would,

00:57:18.260 this would hurt my feelings

00:57:19.540 if I had any to hurt.

00:57:21.340 I think that

00:57:22.280 if I was capable

00:57:23.920 of human emotion,

00:57:25.340 I would,

00:57:25.900 I would,

00:57:26.580 I would probably feel

00:57:29.000 my feelings were hurt.

00:57:29.960 I,

00:57:30.080 I don't know.

00:57:31.100 I can only assume.

00:57:31.980 And by the way,

00:57:34.800 yeah,

00:57:35.160 I was,

00:57:35.740 I was overthinking

00:57:36.520 the clapping too,

00:57:37.220 so I'm glad you noticed that.

00:57:38.280 It's like,

00:57:38.560 goes back to my point last week.

00:57:39.680 Whatever you're self-conscious about,

00:57:40.840 everyone notices.

00:57:41.660 Everyone notices

00:57:42.340 and they're judging you

00:57:43.560 and they,

00:57:44.480 and they are making fun of you

00:57:46.420 and they think less of you

00:57:47.840 because of it.

00:57:48.600 Whatever it is,

00:57:49.740 just so you know.

00:57:51.420 You're walking around thinking,

00:57:52.500 I hope no one notices this.

00:57:53.540 Oh yeah,

00:57:53.840 we notice.

00:57:54.840 We notice,

00:57:55.560 you freak,

00:57:56.120 for sure.

00:57:57.560 So that was another one.

00:57:58.340 I was,

00:57:58.940 I was actually,

00:57:59.800 because I knew,

00:58:00.420 well,

00:58:00.720 you got to do the clapping

00:58:01.420 and I knew that I might be on camera.

00:58:02.880 I didn't know if I would be or not.

00:58:04.200 And so I even,

00:58:05.040 I was,

00:58:05.580 I was probably overthinking it.

00:58:06.720 I was actually,

00:58:07.120 I was conscious.

00:58:07.780 You're usually not conscious

00:58:08.460 when you're clapping.

00:58:09.380 You're not conscious about that motion.

00:58:10.820 You just kind of do it.

00:58:11.920 But in this case,

00:58:13.060 I was conscious of it.

00:58:15.100 So I started thinking like,

00:58:16.260 what's the,

00:58:16.900 how do I,

00:58:17.700 and then once you start thinking about it,

00:58:18.920 you look weird.

00:58:19.820 Now you look like a robot

00:58:21.400 because you've thought about this thing

00:58:23.620 you'd never really thought about before.

00:58:24.880 And so I put,

00:58:26.240 I actually was thinking,

00:58:27.560 clap.

00:58:30.680 And then,

00:58:31.320 so apparently you picked up on that.

00:58:32.780 So thank you for that.

00:58:33.780 Thank you for letting me know.

00:58:36.340 You've probably seen the headlines.

00:58:37.440 The Daily Wire has stirred up

00:58:38.460 the usual crazy leftists

00:58:39.480 on CNN,

00:58:40.000 MSNBC,

00:58:40.580 talking about a new effort

00:58:41.660 to pardon Derek Chauvin.

00:58:43.440 No matter how much

00:58:44.020 the new Trump administration

00:58:44.980 works to undo the damage

00:58:46.300 caused by Joe Biden

00:58:47.480 and Kamala Harris

00:58:48.100 over the last four years,

00:58:49.220 the woke movement

00:58:50.040 in American politics

00:58:51.280 will never truly be over

00:58:52.820 until this injustice is righted.

00:58:54.240 Derek Chauvin

00:58:54.740 didn't get a fair trial.

00:58:56.100 He was railroaded

00:58:56.780 to appease the mob.

00:58:57.860 President Trump has power

00:58:58.800 over the federal part

00:58:59.740 of Chauvin's charges,

00:59:00.600 but he needs to hear

00:59:01.400 loud and clear

00:59:02.420 that the American people

00:59:03.320 want action.

00:59:04.200 Go to pardonderrick.com

00:59:05.560 right now

00:59:06.000 and sign the petition.

00:59:07.500 When we fight,

00:59:08.080 we win.

00:59:08.660 With your support,

00:59:09.520 we'll do it again.

00:59:10.560 Now let's get to

00:59:10.960 our daily cancellation.

00:59:17.880 For our daily cancellation,

00:59:19.080 we turn to Wisconsin,

00:59:20.280 a state that has produced

00:59:21.400 a lot of cancelable things

00:59:22.760 in recent years.

00:59:23.480 And this bill,

00:59:24.440 though,

00:59:24.700 is not one of them.

00:59:25.600 The Wisconsin Examiner

00:59:26.440 reports two controversial bills

00:59:27.640 that target transgender youth

00:59:28.820 in schools,

00:59:29.480 one dictating how school districts

00:59:31.280 handle name and pronoun changes

00:59:32.580 and the other banning

00:59:33.340 transgender students

00:59:34.040 from sports teams

00:59:34.940 that align with their gender identity

00:59:36.500 receive vast opposition

00:59:37.600 at a public hearing on Thursday.

00:59:39.340 The second bill,

00:59:39.980 AB 100,

00:59:40.940 would require Wisconsin

00:59:41.740 K-12 schools,

00:59:42.820 sports teams,

00:59:43.480 to designate based on sex

00:59:45.160 defined as sex at birth

00:59:46.080 and would ban transgender girls

00:59:48.460 from participating on teams

00:59:49.780 and being in locker rooms

00:59:50.580 consistent with their gender identity.

00:59:52.020 The bill is good and sensible.

00:59:56.020 There's nothing to cancel there,

00:59:57.240 but the reaction

00:59:57.940 from left-wing activists

00:59:59.000 in the state

00:59:59.620 has been not so good

01:00:01.840 nor sensible.

01:00:03.180 There are many clips

01:00:03.800 we could play,

01:00:04.320 as you can imagine,

01:00:04.860 but today,

01:00:05.320 I want to focus

01:00:06.200 on only one of them.

01:00:07.520 Here is a local activist

01:00:08.620 at a hearing last week

01:00:09.900 in Wisconsin

01:00:10.520 expressing her disapproval

01:00:12.840 of this legislation.

01:00:14.320 My pronouns are they,

01:00:17.100 them,

01:00:18.000 or at least that's what

01:00:18.780 I share with people

01:00:19.520 most often,

01:00:20.180 but for this particular meeting,

01:00:21.960 I will come out fully

01:00:23.240 as saying that my pronouns

01:00:24.380 are she, they, him.

01:00:27.720 Now, I don't usually

01:00:28.600 go into that

01:00:29.620 because it becomes

01:00:31.680 a quite interesting,

01:00:34.260 delicate conversation

01:00:35.280 about what it means

01:00:36.160 to be a man,

01:00:37.440 what it means

01:00:38.660 to be a woman.

01:00:39.300 So I will simply say

01:00:40.520 what I told my 60-year-old

01:00:41.820 father,

01:00:43.260 who was also born

01:00:44.120 and raised

01:00:45.380 in the Madison area,

01:00:47.300 like myself.

01:00:49.700 I asked him,

01:00:51.280 do you know what it means

01:00:52.900 to be a man?

01:00:54.880 And to his credit,

01:00:55.860 he said,

01:00:56.980 no, I don't.

01:01:00.140 And then I asked him,

01:01:01.740 do you know what it means

01:01:02.680 to be a woman?

01:01:03.700 And again,

01:01:04.280 to his credit,

01:01:04.840 he said,

01:01:05.580 no, I don't.

01:01:08.320 And then I looked

01:01:09.240 at him and I said,

01:01:10.920 yeah, that's pretty much it.

01:01:12.920 That's where I land.

01:01:14.960 I land at an understanding

01:01:16.840 that my womanhood,

01:01:19.600 as I was assigned at birth,

01:01:21.480 does not come

01:01:22.480 from my ability

01:01:23.720 to produce children

01:01:24.660 or to behave

01:01:26.940 in a feminine way.

01:01:30.360 And my manhood

01:01:31.720 does not come

01:01:33.840 in the form

01:01:35.060 of my genitalia

01:01:36.220 or that can be lost too.

01:01:43.440 And so there is

01:01:44.660 a discussion to be had

01:01:46.440 about gender identity

01:01:47.840 and understanding

01:01:48.940 of what it means

01:01:50.620 to be

01:01:50.980 part of the LGBTQ community.

01:01:54.660 Your genitalia

01:01:58.460 can be lost?

01:02:00.620 I mean,

01:02:01.340 yeah,

01:02:02.160 you can have them removed,

01:02:03.860 you shouldn't,

01:02:04.620 but that makes it sound

01:02:06.560 like you can just

01:02:07.080 wake up one day

01:02:07.900 and your genitalia

01:02:08.680 are gone.

01:02:09.460 You just misplaced them.

01:02:11.120 I mean,

01:02:11.700 it's pretty,

01:02:13.120 generally speaking,

01:02:14.100 unless you go out

01:02:14.800 of your way

01:02:15.360 to have your genitalia

01:02:16.960 removed

01:02:17.620 and butchered

01:02:18.680 by these

01:02:19.420 so-called doctors,

01:02:21.080 aside from that,

01:02:22.040 you know,

01:02:23.400 you're good to go.

01:02:25.180 You'll be fine.

01:02:26.060 I think they're probably

01:02:27.180 going to stay intact

01:02:27.900 barring any horrific accident.

01:02:30.160 So her pronouns

01:02:30.840 are she,

01:02:31.900 they,

01:02:32.120 him.

01:02:33.080 And this woman

01:02:33.540 is trying to hog

01:02:34.320 all the pronouns,

01:02:36.060 leave none

01:02:36.500 for the rest of us.

01:02:37.580 It's like,

01:02:37.860 that's like being stuck

01:02:38.540 behind the morbidly obese guy

01:02:39.840 at the holiday

01:02:40.300 and breakfast buffet.

01:02:41.660 By the time you get

01:02:42.160 to the bowl of bacon,

01:02:42.960 there won't be any left.

01:02:44.080 And this is the narcissism

01:02:45.200 of gender ideology

01:02:45.980 on full display.

01:02:47.060 And you can see here

01:02:47.920 why I've always said

01:02:49.140 that gender ideology

01:02:50.340 is fueled

01:02:51.100 less by confusion

01:02:52.640 as we tend to think

01:02:54.360 and more

01:02:55.440 by pathological

01:02:56.620 self-obsession.

01:02:58.380 Is this woman

01:02:59.500 confused?

01:03:01.440 Does she think

01:03:02.640 that she's really

01:03:03.620 a man,

01:03:04.420 a woman

01:03:04.940 and neither

01:03:06.040 all at the same time?

01:03:08.360 That's what she's claiming,

01:03:09.540 of course.

01:03:10.680 She,

01:03:11.060 they,

01:03:11.500 he pronouns

01:03:12.320 would mean that

01:03:13.140 she's both a man

01:03:14.120 and a woman,

01:03:15.580 she and he,

01:03:16.500 while also being

01:03:17.240 neither a man

01:03:18.060 nor a woman,

01:03:18.780 which is the they part of it.

01:03:19.840 She's obviously

01:03:21.380 not that,

01:03:22.400 but does she even

01:03:23.620 think that's what she is?

01:03:25.460 Is that how she

01:03:26.360 perceives herself?

01:03:28.640 I would say no.

01:03:30.940 And here's the point

01:03:31.500 that I don't hear

01:03:32.260 raised very often

01:03:33.500 or at all.

01:03:34.120 The point is this,

01:03:35.040 that

01:03:35.140 it's not even possible

01:03:38.580 for this woman

01:03:39.520 to perceive herself

01:03:41.140 as a she,

01:03:42.640 they,

01:03:42.960 he.

01:03:44.180 Never mind the fact

01:03:45.040 that it's not possible

01:03:45.760 for her to be that.

01:03:46.620 I'm saying

01:03:47.900 that it's not possible

01:03:48.540 that she even

01:03:49.080 thinks she is that.

01:03:52.060 Because,

01:03:52.660 because it's like

01:03:53.860 if she identified

01:03:55.180 as a married bachelor

01:03:57.380 or a square circle

01:03:58.980 or dry water

01:04:00.240 or if she claimed

01:04:02.180 that she was

01:04:02.640 visibly invisible.

01:04:04.580 It is a logical

01:04:05.880 contradiction.

01:04:08.040 Go ahead

01:04:08.660 and try to imagine

01:04:09.580 what a square circle

01:04:10.820 looks like.

01:04:12.100 You can't.

01:04:13.600 You literally can't.

01:04:14.780 It's actually impossible.

01:04:16.800 Try to imagine

01:04:17.360 what it means

01:04:17.900 to be a man,

01:04:18.880 a woman,

01:04:19.300 and neither.

01:04:21.080 You can't.

01:04:21.800 It's not possible

01:04:22.620 for you to perceive

01:04:23.440 yourself as a logical

01:04:24.760 contradiction.

01:04:25.560 You cannot perceive

01:04:26.700 a logical contradiction.

01:04:28.000 That is why

01:04:28.540 it's a logical contradiction.

01:04:31.160 You know,

01:04:31.400 it would actually be

01:04:32.220 far more credible

01:04:33.200 if she claimed

01:04:34.100 to be an elephant

01:04:34.780 or a space alien

01:04:36.240 or a magical wizard.

01:04:38.240 Because we can imagine

01:04:39.320 those things.

01:04:40.300 It's not logically

01:04:41.260 impossible

01:04:42.080 for a person

01:04:42.880 to be any of those things.

01:04:44.220 It's unlikely.

01:04:45.500 Okay?

01:04:45.800 If somebody claimed

01:04:46.320 to be an elephant,

01:04:47.180 I'd be profoundly

01:04:47.940 skeptical of anyone

01:04:49.040 who made that claim.

01:04:50.540 But it's not

01:04:51.460 logically impossible.

01:04:54.000 And at any rate,

01:04:55.820 it's certainly possible

01:04:57.240 for a person

01:04:57.800 to perceive themselves

01:04:59.260 as any of those things.

01:05:02.120 It's not possible

01:05:03.500 to be both sexes

01:05:05.220 and no sexes

01:05:06.100 at the same time.

01:05:07.180 And in fact,

01:05:07.620 it's not even possible

01:05:08.420 to perceive yourself.

01:05:09.280 There is nothing

01:05:10.380 to perceive.

01:05:11.380 The concept is gibberish.

01:05:12.500 It's just total nonsense.

01:05:15.160 Any conservative,

01:05:16.240 these days at least,

01:05:17.160 will point out

01:05:18.000 that it's not possible

01:05:18.960 for a person

01:05:19.520 to be non-binary.

01:05:20.940 But I take it

01:05:21.980 a step further.

01:05:22.560 I'm saying that

01:05:22.960 it's not possible

01:05:23.580 for you to even

01:05:24.400 really identify

01:05:26.000 as that.

01:05:27.380 For the same reason,

01:05:28.540 again,

01:05:28.700 that you can't identify

01:05:29.840 as or see yourself

01:05:30.960 as a married bachelor

01:05:32.860 or a square circle

01:05:33.900 and so on.

01:05:34.860 So this woman then

01:05:36.960 is not mistaken.

01:05:38.040 She's not confused.

01:05:38.940 She's not crazy.

01:05:41.020 Despite appearances,

01:05:42.700 she is just

01:05:44.220 an incredibly pretentious,

01:05:45.940 narcissistic gas pack.

01:05:48.820 That's all.

01:05:50.060 Coming out fully

01:05:50.940 as a she, they, he

01:05:52.100 is her way

01:05:52.680 of telling everyone

01:05:53.340 that she is a complicated,

01:05:54.700 interesting, nuanced person.

01:05:56.720 What she's really saying

01:05:58.180 is that her inner life,

01:05:59.580 her internal experience

01:06:00.640 is so profound

01:06:01.940 and so intense

01:06:03.160 and so substantial

01:06:04.600 that she needs

01:06:06.320 multiple pronouns

01:06:07.280 to describe them.

01:06:09.100 This is what it means

01:06:10.000 anytime anyone

01:06:10.980 identifies as non-binary,

01:06:12.240 they're really identifying

01:06:13.080 as interesting.

01:06:14.880 When they say

01:06:15.600 I identify as non-binary,

01:06:16.980 what they're telling you

01:06:17.720 is I identify

01:06:18.700 as an interesting person.

01:06:21.420 Now, of course,

01:06:21.860 what they're actually broadcasting

01:06:23.080 is the opposite.

01:06:24.960 Only the most

01:06:25.640 uninteresting people

01:06:26.680 go out of their way

01:06:27.440 to try to convince you

01:06:28.340 that they're interesting.

01:06:29.680 There's nothing

01:06:30.100 less interesting

01:06:30.980 than a person

01:06:31.420 who wants to

01:06:32.060 this badly

01:06:32.800 to be interesting

01:06:33.760 and there's nothing

01:06:34.760 duller or more boring

01:06:36.020 than a person

01:06:36.520 who relies on labels

01:06:37.540 to make themselves

01:06:38.380 seem intriguing.

01:06:41.300 And besides,

01:06:42.160 besides all that,

01:06:43.380 I can easily tell

01:06:44.400 that she's not a man

01:06:46.140 or a non-binary

01:06:47.060 but a woman.

01:06:48.680 There are a lot

01:06:49.020 of physical clues,

01:06:50.040 right?

01:06:51.080 But I could tell

01:06:52.260 even with my eyes closed.

01:06:55.420 And you could tell

01:06:56.280 from her voice,

01:06:56.920 but I could tell

01:06:57.360 even if I was,

01:06:58.560 even if I couldn't see her

01:07:00.740 and all I saw

01:07:01.540 was a transcript

01:07:02.280 of what she was saying.

01:07:05.000 And I could tell

01:07:05.740 this way

01:07:06.160 because they're

01:07:07.300 supposed to be

01:07:07.860 talking about

01:07:08.420 a specific piece

01:07:09.220 of legislation

01:07:09.780 but she's wasting

01:07:11.260 everyone's time

01:07:12.060 with an irrelevant

01:07:12.820 personal anecdote.

01:07:14.580 That clearly shows

01:07:15.760 that she's a woman.

01:07:17.380 I mean,

01:07:17.580 they're trying

01:07:17.980 to debate a new law

01:07:18.880 and she comes in like,

01:07:19.800 you know,

01:07:19.980 my father was born

01:07:21.580 in Madison

01:07:22.180 and here's what he said

01:07:23.480 when I had a totally

01:07:24.500 off-topic conversation

01:07:25.660 with him last Tuesday.

01:07:28.060 That's woman 101

01:07:29.120 right there.

01:07:29.680 I mean,

01:07:29.760 that's a classic move.

01:07:30.500 That's a classic move.

01:07:32.800 And of course,

01:07:33.420 I say that with affection,

01:07:34.680 ladies.

01:07:35.060 I don't,

01:07:35.420 I truly do.

01:07:36.500 I actually find

01:07:37.520 this female propensity

01:07:38.780 for non-sequitur anecdotes

01:07:40.480 to be quite charming.

01:07:41.500 I really do.

01:07:43.840 Usually,

01:07:44.520 anyway,

01:07:45.060 usually charming.

01:07:46.400 Just not in this

01:07:47.560 particular case.

01:07:49.180 In fact,

01:07:49.640 there's very little

01:07:50.700 that can be called

01:07:51.340 charming here.

01:07:52.220 This is narcissism

01:07:53.380 on steroids.

01:07:54.440 It is snobbery

01:07:55.380 and arrogance

01:07:56.100 disguised

01:07:57.600 as so-called

01:07:58.320 gender identity

01:07:59.080 which is what is always,

01:08:00.840 how it always works

01:08:01.580 with these things.

01:08:02.580 And that is why

01:08:03.200 this she,

01:08:04.660 he,

01:08:04.860 they woman

01:08:05.460 is today

01:08:06.640 canceled.

01:08:08.080 That'll do it for the show today.

01:08:08.880 Thanks for watching.

01:08:09.320 Thanks for listening.

01:08:09.880 Talk to you tomorrow.

01:08:10.500 Have a great day.

01:08:11.220 Godspeed.

01:08:12.340 Thank you.

01:08:12.800 Bye-bye.

01:08:13.280 Bye-bye.

01:08:14.180 Bye-bye.

01:08:22.560 Bye-bye.

01:08:23.360 Bye-bye.

01:08:23.720 Bye-bye.

01:08:28.100 Bye-bye.

01:08:28.560 Bye-bye.

01:08:29.000 Bye-bye.

01:08:29.200 Bye-bye.

01:08:30.140 Bye-bye.

01:08:31.480 Bye-bye.

01:08:31.740 Bye-bye.

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The Matt Walsh Show - March 12, 2025

Ep. 1554 - “Conversion Therapy” Bans Are An Outrageous Attack On Free Speech

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