The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1571 - Debunking John Oliver’s Insane Defense Of Men In Women’s Sports

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, John Oliver delivered an epically long monologue in defense of quote-unquote trans women playing in women's sports.

00:00:06.660 We will dissect his argument in detail. John Oliver is an insufferable, dishonest, intellectual lightweight, and it's time that somebody put him in his place.

00:00:13.220 We'll try to do that today. Also, the Supreme Court says that Trump can continue deporting illegal immigrant gang members.

00:00:18.140 And there's a major push now for laws mandating maternity leave, but I think these laws and the conversation around them miss the point entirely.

00:00:24.820 We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

00:00:30.000 Being a husband, father, host of my own show means life never slows down.

00:00:55.780 Imagine trying to eat 31 different fruits and vegetables every day. That sounds miserable and time-consuming.

00:01:00.540 Frankly, I just don't want to do all that. I'd rather go get something deep-fried and unhealthy.

00:01:04.920 But with Balance of Nature Fruits and Veggies, there's never been a more convenient dietary supplement to ensure you get a wide variety of fruits and vegetables every day with 31 different whole fruits and vegetable ingredients.

00:01:14.260 Balance of Nature takes fruits and vegetables, they freeze-dry them, turn them into a powder, and put them in a capsule.

00:01:18.600 You take your fruit and veggie capsules every day, and your body knows what to do with them.

00:01:22.000 Go to balanceofnature.com, use code WALSH for 35% off your first order as a preferred customer.

00:01:27.060 Plus, get a free bottle of fiber and spice. That's balanceofnature.com, promo code WALSH.

00:01:31.380 On his show this week, John Oliver decided to spend 45 minutes defending the idea that men, or trans women, as he calls them, should play in women's sports.

00:01:40.800 The trans issue has destroyed the Democrat Party and utterly demolished the left's cultural and political credibility.

00:01:46.880 But they can't let it go. Transgenderism is a religious conviction. They must stay committed to it, which is disturbing and bizarre and uncomfortable to witness, and extremely fortunate for Republicans.

00:01:57.420 It's also, let's be honest, really funny.

00:01:59.780 I mean, in fact, John Oliver's commitment to the transgenderism bit is, by far and away, his funniest routine.

00:02:05.960 It is, in fact, his only funny routine.

00:02:08.460 It's the one time that he lives up to his billing as a comedian, if unintentionally.

00:02:12.820 So, today we're going to pick through Oliver's arguments for trans inclusion in women's sports.

00:02:18.680 We'll go through it piece by piece.

00:02:19.900 And in the process, we'll see how utterly vapid and hollow and deceitful John Oliver's whole shtick is, and how morally and intellectually bankrupt gender ideology is.

00:02:30.220 And as one of the most morally and intellectually bankrupt people in all of media, it's no wonder that Oliver is so attracted to it.

00:02:36.800 As we'll see, Oliver trots out all of the standard tropes in his desperate attempt to make gender ideology seem like it isn't insane.

00:02:44.720 He blabbers for 45 minutes, hitting each talking point one by one, punctuated every five or six minutes with something that I guess is supposed to approximate a joke.

00:02:54.360 But in this whole long diatribe, he never once addresses the core fundamental arguments of the other side, of the sane side.

00:03:04.080 He never once acknowledges, much less makes any attempt to respond to, our actual point.

00:03:10.600 Instead, all we get are the tropes, starting with this one.

00:03:14.720 The issue of trans athletes has become very important to conservatives in general, and Donald Trump in particular.

00:03:21.560 He talked about it at length in his address to Congress and signed an order titled Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports,

00:03:27.380 which promised to rescind all funds from educational programs that allowed trans women and girls to compete.

00:03:32.100 This issue is an obsession for Republicans.

00:03:34.880 Last year, they spent over $116 million just on TV ads featuring trans athletes.

00:03:40.580 And the relentless focus on this over the years has had a meaningful impact, with one poll showing more than 6 in 10 adults say trans girls and women should not be allowed to compete in girls and women's sports, including high school and youth levels.

00:03:53.840 So he starts with the old, why are you so obsessed with this routine, as expected.

00:03:59.880 He then says that this obsession by Republicans is the reason why 6 in 10 adults don't want men and women's sports.

00:04:05.960 Now, the actual number is more like 8 in 10.

00:04:08.360 But either way, he says that Republicans have waged a relentless propaganda campaign against trans people.

00:04:12.960 And that is why so many Americans now agree with them.

00:04:18.300 Oliver has this, of course, completely backwards.

00:04:22.420 John, let me ask you this.

00:04:24.100 What did the poll on trans athletes say 20 years ago?

00:04:29.160 What about 30 years ago?

00:04:31.240 I mean, if the poll numbers today are the result of a recent propaganda push by Republicans,

00:04:35.860 that should be borne out by comparing the poll results on this question today to the poll results 30 years ago.

00:04:43.280 So what were the polls saying on this question 30 years ago?

00:04:46.780 What do you think, John?

00:04:47.980 Have you checked?

00:04:49.440 Well, don't bother because I can help you.

00:04:53.000 There were no polls on this question 20 years ago or 30 years ago or 40 years ago.

00:04:58.280 Organized sports have existed in this country for like 170 years,

00:05:01.780 and yet you'll find no polls on the topic of trans women in sports.

00:05:07.060 You'll find no discussion about the subject at all until very, very recently.

00:05:12.160 Women's sports in particular have existed in some form or another since the late 1800s,

00:05:16.600 and yet again, there was no discussion about whether men who think they're women should be included in women's sports.

00:05:22.220 So if someone had conducted a poll in, say, 1950, and asked whether men who identify as women should be able to compete in women's sports,

00:05:31.500 what do you think the result would have been, John?

00:05:34.680 Do you think that you would have found at least 60% who responded in the negative?

00:05:40.180 You think we would have gotten at least 60% in 1950 who would say, no, men don't belong in women's sports?

00:05:45.500 Of course, you'd probably find a lot more than 60%, wouldn't you?

00:05:49.180 It would be more like 100%, wouldn't it?

00:05:52.160 And that's in spite of the fact that in the 1950s, there was precisely nobody pushing what you would now call anti-trans propaganda.

00:06:00.120 Republicans weren't talking about the issue at all, and yet everybody agreed.

00:06:03.740 Everyone, literally everybody on earth agreed that if a thing is called women's, it should only be for women.

00:06:12.560 So what does that tell us?

00:06:16.160 Well, it tells us, first of all, that Republicans and conservatives aren't the ones who started this conversation.

00:06:23.040 We were all living our lives contently without having any discussion about transgenderism

00:06:27.600 or whether men should be in women's sports or bathrooms.

00:06:30.680 Nobody was talking about it.

00:06:32.020 Nobody was obsessing over it until the trans activists, to include yourself, came along and started screaming in our faces about it.

00:06:38.640 You guys brought up the subject.

00:06:41.400 You guys started marching and waving your flags and injecting your propaganda into schools and TV shows and films and everywhere else.

00:06:48.520 Your side started giving castration drugs to children.

00:06:51.420 Your side started listing your pronouns.

00:06:53.180 None of this existed.

00:06:54.500 This entire subject did not exist until you guys brought it up and started obsessing over it.

00:06:59.400 Those poll numbers you mentioned are not a result of our propaganda, but of yours.

00:07:05.580 The fact that there are 40% of Americans, according to the poll you mentioned, or 20%, if you're using an accurate poll,

00:07:12.900 who actually think that men should compete in women's sports is a result of the relentless propaganda from your side.

00:07:19.520 The fact that it's not right now 100% of people against men and women's sports is a reflection of your propaganda.

00:07:26.580 Again, if we'd asked this question 50 years ago, there would have been 100% of people on our side.

00:07:34.620 But the question wasn't asked, and it wasn't asked because when 100% of people are on one side,

00:07:40.600 it's not the kind of thing you even think to poll in the first place.

00:07:44.060 Now, moving on, Oliver next does the thing he always does where he finds the weakest and most easily mocked version of the counter-argument

00:07:55.080 and then frames the entire rest of his rant around that one single example.

00:08:02.080 Watch.

00:08:02.440 And let's start by acknowledging, many people do have good-faith questions about this,

00:08:07.640 even if they're asking them a little clumsily.

00:08:10.260 Here's an example of one of those questions about fairness, coming from a less-than-ideal source.

00:08:15.720 Let's say Serena's in her prime.

00:08:19.060 And, you know, and who knows, we'll make up the person, right?

00:08:23.400 So, you know, let's not make up the person.

00:08:26.500 Let's say that Rafa Nadal, you know, has some issue, or, you know, wants to transition,

00:08:31.800 and wins the Wimbledon final, or, you know, somebody wins the 100-meter dash at the Olympics.

00:08:37.960 I just, I think that's a net negative.

00:08:41.520 Now, clearly, when it comes to questions of right and wrong in sports,

00:08:46.220 Lance Armstrong might be the last person you'd call just after the 1990 Chicago White Sox

00:08:51.840 and the ear chunk that Mike Tyson bit off.

00:08:54.880 Now, if you wanted to find an example of somebody making the case against men in women's sports,

00:08:59.840 you have literally thousands of options to choose from.

00:09:04.300 Thousands and thousands of people have made this case on camera.

00:09:08.160 Female athletes, biologists, doctors, highly credentialed scientific experts in any number of related fields.

00:09:14.660 But John sifted through all of that and went with Lance Armstrong,

00:09:19.800 because Lance Armstrong is infamous for cheating in a sport.

00:09:22.340 Now, I would say that probably about 99.9999% of all the people who have made the case against men in women's sports

00:09:29.720 are not themselves famous for cheating in a sport.

00:09:32.700 But Oliver went searching for the one person who was.

00:09:37.120 And he uses the silly hypothetical offered by Armstrong, Rafael Nadal suddenly transitioning to a woman,

00:09:43.660 as the framing mechanism for the entire rest of his argument.

00:09:47.700 So Oliver has chosen the absolute weakest version of the opposing argument

00:09:52.120 offered by the weakest possible spokesman.

00:09:55.560 And that will be the only argument he responds to the whole rest of the way.

00:10:01.360 Now, of course, even the weakest version of our argument offered by the weakest spokesman

00:10:06.800 is still totally devastating to John's side.

00:10:10.320 Now, our weakest argument is made of steel compared to the flimsy fantasyland nonsense

00:10:16.640 that you hear from the pro-trans side.

00:10:19.720 Now, Armstrong is, in fact, correct.

00:10:21.740 If all it takes for a man to be a woman is to identify as one,

00:10:24.940 then if Nadal or any other championship-level male athlete identified as a female,

00:10:30.600 he would now be a female by your logic.

00:10:32.980 There's nothing stopping him from dominating women's sports or women's tennis

00:10:36.700 like Shaquille O'Neal in his prime playing basketball against a bunch of nine-year-olds.

00:10:40.320 The point isn't that Nadal is actually likely to do this.

00:10:44.920 It's that the policy that John Oliver advocates for

00:10:47.780 and the position that he takes would make that sort of absurdity possible,

00:10:52.020 which tells us that it's an absurd policy.

00:10:55.960 But Oliver is determined to miss the point, of course, which he continues to do here.

00:11:01.480 Trans women don't transition for sports.

00:11:05.480 No one has ever said,

00:11:09.640 Oh, yeah, I think I'd like to be a woman so I can do well in women's sports.

00:11:15.260 When you go through a gender transition, you lose so many things in life.

00:11:20.700 My own mother said she never wanted to speak to me again.

00:11:24.180 You know, I lost friends, family, got divorced.

00:11:26.600 You'd go through all of that just to win a medal in sports?

00:11:30.980 No.

00:11:32.380 Trans people transition because it's the only way that we can live happily.

00:11:39.040 Right.

00:11:39.900 No one says, I'm going to transition just for the sake of sports.

00:11:44.480 Oh, they don't?

00:11:46.160 Well, first of all, John, how do you know that?

00:11:48.200 I mean, there are many examples of mediocre male athletes who, after a while, after, you know, not succeeding against the men, suddenly discover their latent female identity.

00:11:58.580 Leah Thomas is just one of many examples.

00:12:00.960 How do you know that the fact that he could go from the middle of the pack to first by a mile isn't what motivated him to make the switch?

00:12:08.820 You know, that trans sports scientist that we saw there says that the social cost of transitioning is too high.

00:12:15.320 He says that he personally lost his marriage and his family when he transitioned.

00:12:18.900 In other words, he willingly blew up his marriage and family for the sake of living out his fantasy of womanhood.

00:12:24.120 What does that tell us?

00:12:24.780 Well, it tells us that he's extremely selfish.

00:12:28.160 It tells us by his own admission that trans people will do anything to feel affirmed.

00:12:33.020 They'll pay any cost.

00:12:34.400 They'll hurt anyone.

00:12:35.380 I mean, that's what he just told us.

00:12:36.320 He hurt his own family.

00:12:39.240 So would they be willing to hurt female athletes for the sake of being affirmed?

00:12:44.080 I mean, the argument seems to be that trans-identified people would never transition just to succeed in sports because they're too selfish for that.

00:12:54.340 But I'm not sure that logic really tracks.

00:12:56.360 And at any rate, none of this matters.

00:12:59.580 None of this is even remotely related to the actual point.

00:13:04.060 Okay, the reason for their, quote, transition is totally irrelevant.

00:13:08.720 It does not matter.

00:13:10.140 It makes no difference.

00:13:11.280 Nothing that John has said to this point, nothing even comes close to actually addressing our arguments.

00:13:18.360 And that trend will continue with this next part.

00:13:21.320 It is obviously true that, on average, cisgender men and post-pubescent boys have some specific athletic performance advantages, though the relative size of that advantage also depends on the sport and the event in swimming.

00:13:35.440 For instance, male athletic performance advantage is roughly 13% in the 50-meter freestyle, but less than 6% in the 1,500-meter free, which is still clearly significant.

00:13:44.260 But in general, there's a lot of overlap in the average performance ranges of men and women.

00:13:49.840 Basically, it is not the case that any man is going to be stronger or more athletic than every woman.

00:13:55.220 It's not the case that any man is stronger and more athletic than every woman, says John Oliver.

00:14:02.620 And in saying this, he has expertly knocked down and dismantled an argument that literally no one on earth at any point anywhere has ever made.

00:14:12.960 Nobody claims that every man is stronger than every woman.

00:14:16.000 John Oliver himself is proof of that.

00:14:18.080 I mean, he would lose an arm wrestling contest against my 11-year-old daughter.

00:14:22.480 It's true that scrawny, pathetically weak men do exist in the world.

00:14:26.720 We're looking at one of them, but that's not the point.

00:14:29.280 The point about athletic advantages is that, on average, men are significantly, not slightly, significantly stronger and faster.

00:14:37.620 This is because men and women are built differently.

00:14:39.700 Women, on average, have 20% less muscle mass in their legs, smaller fast-twitch muscle fibers, smaller lungs, smaller hearts, shorter legs, much more estrogen, much less testosterone, a lesser capacity to produce oxygen when they're exercising, exerting themselves.

00:14:53.140 That's why a team of high school boys could beat the women's national team in soccer.

00:14:56.680 It's why the top 10 male finishers in nearly every Olympic event always beat, always beat, always beat the top 10 female finishers in the same event.

00:15:05.400 In fact, the top 25 or 50 or 100 male finishers will beat the top 10 females.

00:15:10.480 It's why you could find hundreds of examples just like this one.

00:15:14.160 Andrea Yearwood and Terry Miller, both males, finished first and second in the 55-meter dash at the Women's State Indoor Track and Field Championships in Connecticut a few years ago.

00:15:22.960 Miller also finished first in the 300-meter.

00:15:25.400 Miller won the gold with a time of 38.9 seconds.

00:15:28.440 Second place was a full second behind him, which is a near eternity in track time.

00:15:33.500 But if Miller had raced against the boys in the same event, he would have been about two seconds behind the guy who finished in 25th place.

00:15:44.180 So to reiterate, his winning time against the girls would have put him far outside of the top 25 in the men's field.

00:15:50.880 The worst guy on the men's track team can instantly become the best person on the girls' team.

00:15:57.760 That's the point.

00:15:58.500 Or at least it's the point about the athletic advantages.

00:16:01.500 But even that point is not the point.

00:16:04.420 John Oliver still has not addressed the actual point.

00:16:09.200 Here she is explaining what we do and don't know at this point.

00:16:12.660 It is undoubtedly true that trans women will maintain advantages in some sports.

00:16:22.740 Probably not so much in endurance sports, but in size and strength sports.

00:16:28.640 Trans women will also have some physiological disadvantages.

00:16:33.760 Our larger frames are now being powered by reduced muscle mass and reduced aerobic capacity.

00:16:39.100 And that can lead to disadvantages in terms like quickness, recovery, endurance.

00:16:44.340 Things that maybe aren't quite as obvious as being bigger and stronger.

00:16:48.800 Right.

00:16:49.260 Bigger and stronger bodies are not automatically advantaged in every scenario.

00:16:53.500 I mean, put The Rock in a pure bar class and see what happens.

00:16:57.100 I mean, we know what would happen.

00:16:58.760 He'd take a video of himself, captioning it,

00:17:00.160 mad respect to these mamas, everyone go see Moana 2 and try to use it to sell his tequila

00:17:04.500 before eating 13,000 pancakes and drinking a cow.

00:17:07.120 We know what would happen.

00:17:09.320 But the degree of difference here matters because we expect a certain amount of difference

00:17:14.260 in athletics.

00:17:15.340 Taller basketball players are expected to compete against shorter ones.

00:17:18.320 Faster soccer players compete against slower ones.

00:17:20.920 Michael Phelps was allowed to compete with other swimmers despite being part dolphin.

00:17:24.440 And crucially, none of the studies I've mentioned so far bear much relevance

00:17:29.260 to what these new laws target, which is youth sports, usually of all ages.

00:17:33.660 And the research there is even more scant.

00:17:36.600 We have no research about how being trans or undergoing gender-affirming treatment

00:17:40.460 impacts athletic performance in teens.

00:17:43.080 Now, and you notice, there's one example of, you know,

00:17:47.320 an area where women supposedly would have an athletic advantage over men

00:17:51.580 is an aerobics class.

00:17:54.460 He couldn't even come up with an actual competition, like an actual sporting event,

00:17:59.600 where he would say that women would have an advantage over men because there isn't one.

00:18:04.440 So instead he goes with, oh, well, if The Rock was, what, competing in a class at a gym.

00:18:14.200 And, you know, he tries to write it off, of course, with the dumb joke there about The Rock.

00:18:17.760 But again, the point is, he couldn't even come up with an example of an actual sporting event,

00:18:23.100 an event where there's a competition between people where the man would not have a clear advantage.

00:18:31.040 Now, John goes on for a while about the dearth of studies dealing with trans,

00:18:35.860 quote-unquote, trans women in female sports.

00:18:38.800 He's perplexed that there haven't been more studies on the subject.

00:18:41.540 But, of course, trans women are men, and there is ample scientific evidence and many, many studies

00:18:46.820 demonstrating the physiological differences and athletic advantages enjoyed by men.

00:18:50.920 He wants a study that specifically studies trans women as if the fact that a man sees himself as a woman

00:18:56.180 will in and of itself fundamentally impact his biology.

00:19:00.020 But that is not the case, which is why very few people have ever bothered to study it, okay?

00:19:04.960 No credible scientist would ever say, hey, you know, we know that men are faster and stronger than women,

00:19:11.400 but what about men who think they're women?

00:19:13.500 Are they also faster and stronger?

00:19:16.160 Well, that's not going to be studied by any credible person because their perception of themselves as women

00:19:20.460 obviously does not alter their biology.

00:19:23.880 We don't need a study to show us that, John.

00:19:27.300 Okay, do you need a study to find out if, well, you know, we heard if you believe you can fly, you can really fly.

00:19:32.320 Maybe we should do a study to find out if that's true.

00:19:34.100 Maybe we should find some insane people who think they can fly and watch them jump off of buildings

00:19:37.980 to see if that really pans out.

00:19:39.940 No, if you're not insane, you don't need a study for that, do you?

00:19:43.980 So what John is really talking about here are men who have undergone a medical transition, quote, unquote,

00:19:50.820 were being told that after transition, the physical advantages are diminished, supposedly.

00:19:55.580 Now, does this mean that John Oliver is saying that only male athletes who've taken the drugs

00:19:59.720 should be allowed to compete against women?

00:20:01.400 No, he's not even saying that.

00:20:02.600 At least he doesn't appear to be saying that.

00:20:04.440 His only real argument in favor of men and women's sports is that supposedly men who've taken the transition drugs

00:20:08.900 become weaker and slower.

00:20:10.180 But he actually doesn't follow that argument through to its conclusion

00:20:12.600 and say that only men who've transitioned should compete.

00:20:15.140 So again, this whole thing is a red herring.

00:20:16.560 It's irrelevant.

00:20:17.820 Also, John,

00:20:19.480 John, why are men weaker and slower after transitioning?

00:20:25.580 Why do they have less muscle mass?

00:20:29.060 Well, John, because the drugs are destroying their bodies.

00:20:33.820 John Oliver is here proudly demonstrating that medical transition destroys the human body.

00:20:38.820 It has a destructive effect on the physiology of the men who undergo these, quote, unquote, treatments.

00:20:45.160 John seems to have little curiosity about that fact.

00:20:48.240 He doesn't linger on it or think about it very hard.

00:20:50.880 Instead, he just says, well, look at that.

00:20:52.400 Their bodies have been destroyed.

00:20:53.940 Now they're just like women.

00:20:55.280 He doesn't see any problem with equating a destroyed male body to a female body.

00:21:02.460 He doesn't see any problem with giving people supposed medical treatments that are designed to physically harm them.

00:21:09.080 And he doesn't even really think that these treatments are relevant to the question of whether or not a trans woman is actually a woman or not.

00:21:14.960 So that brings us to the argument that John has spent this entire diatribe studiously ignoring.

00:21:21.380 The reason why our side actually opposes men in women's sports is, as I explained during the hearing in California last week,

00:21:29.920 very simply, because men are not women.

00:21:35.320 No matter how great or small their advantage, no matter if they've transitioned or not,

00:21:41.060 no matter how they self-identify, men are not women.

00:21:45.660 Again, the fundamental claim of the quote-unquote trans woman that he is a woman is false.

00:21:52.680 It is objectively, scientifically, logically, empirically, in every way and from every angle, false.

00:21:59.160 Now, if there was a 30-year-old adult who wanted to play in a t-ball league against six-year-olds,

00:22:06.400 we would all, even John Oliver, I think, would tell him no.

00:22:10.880 Now, but what if this 30-year-old was really unathletic?

00:22:16.520 I mean, conceivably, there are 30-year-olds out there who are less athletic and maybe even weaker than six-year-olds.

00:22:23.380 I mean, it's theoretically possible that could be the case.

00:22:27.580 Would that change your mind?

00:22:30.180 What if he was very short?

00:22:32.700 What if it was a 30-year-old who said, well, I'm just as short as a child?

00:22:35.120 What if this 30-year-old would be only the 10th best t-ball player on the t-ball team?

00:22:42.840 Would we let him play against the six-year-olds then?

00:22:45.140 No.

00:22:45.820 Why?

00:22:46.280 Well, because he's not six years old.

00:22:49.320 This is a league for six-year-olds.

00:22:51.640 He's not six.

00:22:53.200 And so that's why he's not allowed in the league.

00:22:57.000 Now, what if the 30-year-old thought he was six?

00:23:02.760 What if he identified as six?

00:23:04.860 What if he spent his whole life and had built his entire personality around the fantasy that he is six?

00:23:13.360 Would we let him play in the six-year-old league in that case?

00:23:17.420 No.

00:23:18.460 In fact, we would be even less accepting of him on the six-year-old team.

00:23:24.240 Because not only is he still not actually six years old, he's also deranged.

00:23:30.100 And the fact that he's deranged doesn't make him six, and it doesn't make us any more eager to let him play with six-year-olds.

00:23:36.280 In fact, it has the opposite effect.

00:23:38.160 And the same logic applies to women's sports.

00:23:43.340 Men are not women.

00:23:45.060 Men who think they are women are still not women and are, if anything, even less fit to be competing against them.

00:23:51.820 This is the argument that John Oliver won't address.

00:23:55.440 He will talk and talk and talk about the issue, but he won't go anywhere near the actual point.

00:24:02.520 The point that so-called trans women are not actually women.

00:24:07.180 That's our whole argument, John.

00:24:10.960 And I dare you.

00:24:12.080 I dare you to spend even five minutes addressing it.

00:24:15.920 Spend five minutes on your show.

00:24:18.980 Five minutes explaining how quote-unquote trans women are actually women.

00:24:25.480 That is your fundamental proposition.

00:24:28.120 That is your fundamental argument.

00:24:30.120 Spend five minutes defending it.

00:24:32.240 Okay, you've spent plenty of time on this topic.

00:24:36.660 I think it's time you actually get to the point.

00:24:40.780 Now let's get to our five headlines.

00:24:47.700 Have you ever come across someone saying that capitalism is evil or something similar?

00:24:52.440 Maybe in a video online, on TV, or just talking with someone.

00:24:55.600 What was your reaction if you did?

00:24:57.100 When did capitalism become such a hot-button issue anyway?

00:24:59.740 Well, it seems like people have such strong opinions about it.

00:25:02.240 And very little understanding of capitalism as a whole.

00:25:04.560 Luckily, if you're looking to expand your knowledge and horizons on a broad range of topics,

00:25:08.120 including subjects like capitalism,

00:25:09.860 Hillsdale College is offering more than 40 free online courses.

00:25:12.800 That's right, completely free.

00:25:14.260 You can learn about the United States Constitution,

00:25:15.920 explore stories from the book of Genesis,

00:25:17.840 discover the rise and fall of the Roman Republic,

00:25:19.840 or even study the history of the ancient Christian church.

00:25:22.500 I do recommend watching their new course,

00:25:24.080 Understanding Capitalism, in just seven lectures.

00:25:26.440 You'll learn about the role of profit and loss,

00:25:28.320 how human nature shapes our economy,

00:25:29.900 and why capitalism depends on private property rights,

00:25:32.940 the rule of law, and freedom.

00:25:34.480 You'll also discover why capitalism actually encourages morality,

00:25:37.220 rather than undermining it,

00:25:38.680 like today's varying political agendas would have you believe.

00:25:41.480 Understanding economics and capitalism empowers individuals and societies

00:25:44.800 to make informed decisions,

00:25:46.340 evaluate policy impacts,

00:25:48.180 anticipate market changes,

00:25:49.340 and ultimately create more prosperous communities.

00:25:51.880 Go right now to hillsdale.edu slash Walsh

00:25:53.920 to enroll in this course.

00:25:54.820 Understanding Capitalism, there's no cost,

00:25:56.920 it's easy to get started.

00:25:58.160 That's hillsdale.edu slash Walsh

00:25:59.880 to enroll for free.

00:26:01.300 Hillsdale.edu slash Walsh.

00:26:03.540 All right, well, just a few things here.

00:26:08.060 Big news for the Daily Wire.

00:26:09.540 The Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way

00:26:11.080 for the Trump administration

00:26:11.980 to use the 1798 Alien Enemies Act

00:26:15.000 to deport illegal alien gang members

00:26:16.900 from the United States.

00:26:18.260 The order from the high court

00:26:19.960 reverses a lower court ruling

00:26:21.980 from U.S. District Judge James Boasberg.

00:26:24.480 Boasberg temporarily blocked the Trump administration

00:26:27.400 from enforcing the Aliens Enemies Act

00:26:29.680 in a case involving five Venezuelan nationals.

00:26:33.240 The ruling is a significant win for the Trump administration

00:26:35.040 that has leveraged the 18th century law

00:26:36.620 to expedite the removal of criminal gang members

00:26:40.080 from the United States.

00:26:40.820 The Trump administration has likened the alien gangs

00:26:42.800 present United States to a foreign invasion

00:26:45.320 or predatory incursion

00:26:47.400 that justifies the law's use.

00:26:50.440 The Supreme Court ruled in the case five to four

00:26:52.600 with all but Justice Amy Coney Barrett

00:26:54.180 from the court's conservative wing

00:26:55.560 ruling in the majority.

00:26:58.440 And then Barrett dissented.

00:27:01.140 And so the deportations will continue.

00:27:04.580 Amy Coney Barrett dissents,

00:27:06.440 joins the liberal justices again.

00:27:09.740 I think at this point to call Amy Coney Barrett

00:27:11.520 a member of the conservative wing

00:27:13.360 is probably being quite generous to her.

00:27:16.800 As others have pointed out,

00:27:18.020 you know, not to jump back into the gender wars,

00:27:21.180 but we now have a very interesting dynamic on the court.

00:27:25.680 And you can't, like when you look at a photo

00:27:27.740 of the four dissenters,

00:27:29.620 you can't help but notice it's all the women.

00:27:32.200 The four women are the ones who all dissented.

00:27:34.480 It's the women all saying that it's mean

00:27:36.520 to deport illegal alien gang members.

00:27:39.740 Probably not a coincidence,

00:27:40.820 which is the argument, by the way.

00:27:42.060 That's the whole argument against it.

00:27:44.040 The whole argument against,

00:27:45.140 because that's what we're talking about,

00:27:46.720 you know, just to be entirely clear.

00:27:49.060 We're talking about,

00:27:51.120 as I'm sure you understand,

00:27:53.160 deporting illegal alien.

00:27:57.600 So really right there,

00:27:58.460 that should be all we need

00:28:00.040 to know that this policy is perfectly appropriate.

00:28:03.840 Deporting illegal alien.

00:28:05.380 Like you could stop your sentence right there

00:28:07.240 and I'm sold.

00:28:09.820 I don't, oh, they're illegal.

00:28:11.260 Okay, yes, sounds great.

00:28:12.660 But then we continue

00:28:14.920 and it's not even illegal alien gang members

00:28:17.900 is who we're deporting

00:28:22.120 and sending to, in some cases,

00:28:25.140 prisons in foreign countries,

00:28:27.700 like in El Salvador.

00:28:30.120 The only argument against it

00:28:32.080 is that it's mean.

00:28:35.360 Now, they'll use more words than that.

00:28:37.720 If you were to read the dissenting opinion

00:28:39.180 from the women,

00:28:40.540 I'm sure it probably doesn't just say,

00:28:42.880 well, this is mean.

00:28:43.600 I don't like it.

00:28:44.520 But that is their argument.

00:28:46.000 That's the entire,

00:28:46.980 it's mean.

00:28:47.740 They don't,

00:28:48.080 it makes them feel uncomfortable.

00:28:49.700 It's a mean thing to do.

00:28:51.360 And, and I just don't,

00:28:53.440 I don't like the way that feels.

00:28:54.380 That doesn't feel right.

00:28:56.080 You know, that, that makes me,

00:28:57.120 it makes me,

00:28:57.680 it makes me,

00:28:58.280 it makes me sad.

00:28:59.220 It makes me feel sad.

00:29:01.160 That's their entire argument.

00:29:02.420 But, of course, this ruling is right.

00:29:05.820 The men got it right anyway.

00:29:07.340 And it,

00:29:08.960 it's difficult to even spend,

00:29:12.160 I mean,

00:29:12.380 we've spent plenty of time on this issue.

00:29:16.140 But you reach a point

00:29:17.200 where what else is there to say about it?

00:29:20.760 Yes, there are illegal alien gang members.

00:29:23.060 Get them out of the country.

00:29:24.020 I don't know,

00:29:24.260 I don't know how else to explain it.

00:29:25.640 Like, if, if,

00:29:26.700 if there's anyone left out there

00:29:28.840 who still doesn't get it

00:29:29.720 or hasn't been convinced,

00:29:31.920 and apparently there are,

00:29:32.840 I mean,

00:29:32.980 there are four of them

00:29:33.600 on the Supreme Court.

00:29:35.540 But anyone out there

00:29:36.420 who has not yet been convinced

00:29:37.940 that we should get

00:29:39.360 illegal alien gang members

00:29:41.160 and murderers

00:29:42.140 and child rapists

00:29:43.160 out of the country,

00:29:44.300 well, I don't,

00:29:45.140 I don't think there's anything else

00:29:46.860 that can be said

00:29:47.720 to persuade them.

00:29:50.360 So, maybe we'll just

00:29:51.140 leave it there for now.

00:29:52.280 You know,

00:29:52.540 I keep saying that I'll stop,

00:29:53.840 I will stop playing

00:29:54.820 Jasmine Crockett clips

00:29:56.580 on the show,

00:29:57.220 but then she keeps

00:29:59.080 saying things

00:29:59.880 that are so baffling

00:30:00.780 and their stupidity

00:30:01.520 that I have no choice

00:30:04.320 but to play them.

00:30:04.940 I can't help myself.

00:30:06.460 I just can't.

00:30:08.240 I'm thinking now

00:30:08.840 I probably have to embrace it

00:30:10.280 and go the other direction

00:30:11.160 and have an official

00:30:12.320 weekly Jasmine Crockett segment.

00:30:15.880 Just stop,

00:30:16.360 stop fighting against the riptide

00:30:17.880 and go with it.

00:30:21.060 I don't know,

00:30:21.860 but either way,

00:30:25.040 this is pretty extraordinary.

00:30:27.200 Here she is

00:30:28.020 talking about

00:30:29.780 illegal immigration,

00:30:31.480 making her argument,

00:30:32.520 her argument in favor of it,

00:30:34.720 and listen to what she says.

00:30:38.340 So I had to go around the country

00:30:40.280 and educate people about

00:30:41.780 what immigrants do

00:30:43.840 for this country

00:30:44.500 or the fact that we are

00:30:45.720 a country of immigrants.

00:30:47.060 Right, right.

00:30:48.120 The fact is,

00:30:49.020 ain't none of y'all

00:30:49.660 trying to go and farm right now.

00:30:54.400 Okay, so I'm lying.

00:30:55.600 Raise your hand.

00:30:58.020 You're not.

00:31:03.420 You're not.

00:31:05.200 We done picking cotton.

00:31:08.860 We are.

00:31:09.660 You can't pay us enough

00:31:11.160 to find a plantation.

00:31:14.800 We done picking cotton,

00:31:16.320 she says.

00:31:17.340 So this is Jasmine Crockett

00:31:18.720 openly admitting

00:31:20.540 that they want illegal aliens

00:31:22.380 in this country

00:31:23.960 as slave labor.

00:31:25.940 She came right out

00:31:26.820 and said it.

00:31:28.340 Just came right out.

00:31:30.220 Never mind the fact

00:31:31.040 that she's wrong

00:31:31.660 about her basic claim,

00:31:32.680 you know,

00:31:32.900 this claim of,

00:31:35.100 well,

00:31:35.220 they're doing jobs

00:31:36.440 that Americans won't do.

00:31:37.380 There are plenty

00:31:38.020 of non-illegals

00:31:38.920 who do farm work.

00:31:40.940 There are plenty

00:31:41.300 of American citizens

00:31:42.500 who would work on farms,

00:31:43.720 who do work on farms.

00:31:45.360 It's certainly not correct

00:31:46.620 to say that

00:31:47.420 American citizens

00:31:48.880 are done working on farms,

00:31:50.220 so we need to bring

00:31:51.140 the illegal aliens

00:31:51.960 in to do it for us.

00:31:52.880 That is not true.

00:31:53.620 But regardless,

00:31:55.220 we now have Democrats

00:31:56.440 just coming out

00:31:57.400 and admitting

00:31:57.980 that this is about

00:31:59.540 slave labor.

00:32:02.060 She even says plantations.

00:32:03.720 Like,

00:32:03.860 I don't want to be

00:32:04.260 on the plantations.

00:32:05.740 Let's put them on them.

00:32:08.720 So when I say

00:32:09.740 that this is an argument

00:32:10.480 for slavery,

00:32:11.580 I don't say that

00:32:13.040 just as some kind

00:32:14.020 of gotcha

00:32:14.700 or some sort of joke.

00:32:16.660 I mean,

00:32:18.580 this is

00:32:19.140 literally the argument

00:32:21.260 for slavery.

00:32:23.680 Like,

00:32:24.260 if you've ever wondered

00:32:25.320 how anyone

00:32:26.400 could have ever

00:32:27.180 supported slavery,

00:32:28.600 how the whole world

00:32:29.640 supported slavery

00:32:30.440 for thousands of years,

00:32:32.200 this is it,

00:32:33.880 basically.

00:32:35.680 You don't have

00:32:36.380 to wonder anymore.

00:32:37.460 It's no longer a mystery.

00:32:38.720 Jasmine just said it.

00:32:41.140 She's saying

00:32:41.780 that we need

00:32:42.260 illegal immigrant labor

00:32:43.260 because immigrants

00:32:44.340 are fit

00:32:45.100 for this kind of work

00:32:46.380 but the rest of us aren't.

00:32:48.060 It's work that

00:32:48.760 we don't want to do

00:32:49.660 and we're too good

00:32:51.880 for that

00:32:52.340 but the immigrants

00:32:54.220 are fit for it

00:32:55.120 and so they should do it.

00:32:57.120 These people,

00:32:57.940 illegal immigrants,

00:32:58.700 are suited

00:32:59.360 to work the fields.

00:33:01.380 For them,

00:33:01.820 it's a blessing.

00:33:03.900 Right?

00:33:04.460 For them,

00:33:05.180 it's a great opportunity.

00:33:06.180 It's a blessing

00:33:06.600 to be able to do it.

00:33:07.560 For us,

00:33:08.320 it's drudgery.

00:33:09.760 It's beneath us.

00:33:11.600 Well,

00:33:12.340 again,

00:33:14.220 that is the argument

00:33:15.920 for slave labor.

00:33:17.240 That's it right there.

00:33:19.760 So,

00:33:20.440 if you agree with that,

00:33:21.580 then congratulations.

00:33:22.560 You're pro-slavery.

00:33:24.160 And the good news,

00:33:25.100 here's the good news.

00:33:26.320 Okay?

00:33:27.180 The good news is

00:33:28.000 you're not alone.

00:33:29.840 I mean,

00:33:30.200 this is actually

00:33:31.580 one area

00:33:32.420 where your views,

00:33:35.000 if you're on

00:33:35.380 Jasmine Crockett's side,

00:33:36.540 your views are more

00:33:38.400 traditional than mine.

00:33:40.520 That's the funny thing.

00:33:41.480 The people who are

00:33:42.140 opposed to illegal

00:33:43.020 immigration,

00:33:43.760 like me,

00:33:44.980 actually have,

00:33:46.020 at least on this point

00:33:47.200 about labor,

00:33:48.940 we actually have

00:33:49.620 liberal views

00:33:50.860 on the subject.

00:33:51.740 We are the big libs.

00:33:54.360 We're the woke ones

00:33:55.620 saying that we shouldn't

00:33:56.740 have an underclass

00:33:57.540 of servants

00:33:58.060 who we import

00:33:59.360 to do menial labor

00:34:00.380 that we don't want to do.

00:34:02.940 Okay?

00:34:03.920 We're saying

00:34:04.580 we don't want that.

00:34:06.080 So,

00:34:06.720 on this point,

00:34:07.420 we're a bunch of libs.

00:34:08.660 Historically speaking,

00:34:09.640 we're a bunch of libs

00:34:11.000 because pretty much

00:34:11.900 every society in history

00:34:13.300 has traditionally

00:34:14.480 had a setup like that.

00:34:15.800 It's just that in the past

00:34:17.360 we called them slaves,

00:34:18.720 we called them

00:34:19.160 indentured servants,

00:34:20.120 there have been different

00:34:20.840 labels,

00:34:22.820 different ways of,

00:34:23.540 different systems in place,

00:34:25.040 but it's always

00:34:26.100 the same idea.

00:34:27.120 Now we call them

00:34:27.720 undocumented workers,

00:34:28.840 but it's always been

00:34:29.700 the same basic concept.

00:34:30.920 It's the concept that

00:34:31.840 Jasmine Crockett

00:34:32.560 just laid out,

00:34:33.360 that we've got

00:34:34.640 all this menial labor

00:34:35.480 and we don't want to do it.

00:34:36.980 It sucks for us to do it.

00:34:38.700 Let's find these people

00:34:39.580 over here,

00:34:40.000 they're kind of beneath us

00:34:40.740 and for them,

00:34:41.600 they're suited to this.

00:34:44.760 So,

00:34:45.660 on the right,

00:34:48.500 we are breaking

00:34:49.560 with tradition

00:34:50.540 on the slavery issue.

00:34:54.220 And,

00:34:54.840 on the left,

00:34:56.360 they have found

00:34:57.540 the one single issue

00:34:59.500 where they embrace tradition.

00:35:02.880 This is the one time

00:35:04.320 where people on the left

00:35:05.100 are embracing tradition,

00:35:06.440 where they're taking a stand

00:35:08.720 for the traditional way

00:35:10.400 of doing things.

00:35:12.260 This is it,

00:35:13.100 with slavery.

00:35:14.620 Because again,

00:35:15.420 slavery is,

00:35:16.160 I'll admit,

00:35:17.580 as a defender of tradition

00:35:18.720 generally,

00:35:19.980 I'll admit,

00:35:20.560 slavery is very traditional.

00:35:22.360 It is perhaps

00:35:23.680 the most traditional institution

00:35:25.200 that you could name.

00:35:29.180 But,

00:35:29.920 I generally,

00:35:31.180 I defend tradition.

00:35:32.180 Not all traditions are good.

00:35:33.600 There are some bad ones,

00:35:34.740 and that's one of them.

00:35:36.920 That's probably the first one

00:35:37.880 that comes to mind.

00:35:39.680 And it's just very funny to me

00:35:41.480 that the left,

00:35:42.200 they throw out

00:35:43.260 every tradition

00:35:44.240 except that one.

00:35:46.120 That's the only one

00:35:47.340 they want to keep.

00:35:49.520 They look at our ancestors

00:35:50.900 and they say,

00:35:52.120 those morons

00:35:53.720 were wrong about everything

00:35:55.320 except slave labor.

00:35:58.420 They had that one right.

00:35:59.160 I don't know,

00:36:07.160 you have to laugh about it.

00:36:08.280 At least I do.

00:36:09.440 I guess I have a morbid

00:36:10.120 sense of humor.

00:36:10.780 But,

00:36:12.040 that is what they want,

00:36:13.600 slave labor.

00:36:14.480 Okay,

00:36:14.820 I've had,

00:36:16.260 let's see here,

00:36:17.020 I've had this story

00:36:17.700 in my queue

00:36:18.520 for a few days.

00:36:22.040 I haven't mentioned it

00:36:23.040 because a part of me

00:36:23.620 feels like

00:36:24.140 we've dunked on Disney

00:36:27.220 quite enough.

00:36:27.860 but then I realize

00:36:29.360 there is no enough

00:36:31.440 when it comes to

00:36:32.180 dunking on Disney.

00:36:33.060 How is it possible

00:36:34.860 to dunk too much

00:36:35.760 on Disney?

00:36:37.020 So,

00:36:37.380 another Disney actor

00:36:38.560 came out,

00:36:40.620 this was last week,

00:36:42.280 attacking the fans.

00:36:44.200 And so,

00:36:44.560 this is just

00:36:45.820 never ending.

00:36:46.640 This is a constant thing.

00:36:47.680 It never ends.

00:36:49.160 And,

00:36:49.720 just to emphasize

00:36:50.880 that point,

00:36:52.140 if you were to go through

00:36:53.440 like a non-exhaustive list

00:36:55.100 of all the Disney actors

00:36:57.840 and employees

00:36:58.640 and executives

00:37:00.100 who in recent years

00:37:00.900 have attacked

00:37:01.340 their own fan base,

00:37:02.720 you've got,

00:37:03.520 you know,

00:37:04.700 the Star Wars director,

00:37:06.300 Rian Johnson,

00:37:07.160 or Rian Johnson,

00:37:08.000 I don't know how

00:37:08.180 you pronounce his name,

00:37:09.200 mocking fans,

00:37:10.920 implying they were sexist

00:37:11.980 for criticizing his,

00:37:13.160 you know,

00:37:13.440 incoherent plot lines.

00:37:14.980 You've got Disney's

00:37:16.220 former CEO,

00:37:17.000 Bob Chapek,

00:37:18.160 saying that,

00:37:19.160 you know,

00:37:19.360 the conservative voters

00:37:20.300 in Florida

00:37:20.840 don't support

00:37:22.020 fundamental human rights.

00:37:23.140 you've got

00:37:25.460 Amandla Stenberg

00:37:27.740 who was in

00:37:28.460 The Acolyte

00:37:29.460 attacking her critics

00:37:31.740 as racist.

00:37:33.300 Jodi Turner-Smith

00:37:34.760 played one of the

00:37:36.520 lesbian witches

00:37:37.120 in The Acolyte,

00:37:38.540 also said that critics

00:37:39.540 of her show

00:37:40.400 were racist.

00:37:42.560 The lesbian showrunner

00:37:43.840 of The Acolyte

00:37:44.300 had a similar idea.

00:37:46.800 You had

00:37:47.340 Kathleen Kennedy,

00:37:48.960 president of

00:37:49.840 Lucasfilm,

00:37:51.760 talking about

00:37:53.800 the male-dominated

00:37:54.840 fan base

00:37:55.580 that was

00:37:55.980 unfairly attacking

00:37:57.220 the various actors.

00:37:59.980 Of course,

00:38:00.260 Rachel Zegler,

00:38:01.560 the most recent one,

00:38:03.080 declaring,

00:38:03.740 among other things,

00:38:04.840 that Trump supporters

00:38:06.100 should burn in hell

00:38:07.060 for all eternity.

00:38:08.580 Talking about how

00:38:09.280 she doesn't,

00:38:10.680 you know,

00:38:10.700 that the original

00:38:11.540 Snow White story

00:38:12.240 is very creepy

00:38:13.080 and all that.

00:38:13.540 We're all familiar with it.

00:38:14.680 So,

00:38:15.380 into that mix

00:38:16.320 jumps John Boyega,

00:38:17.920 who played

00:38:18.560 the stormtrooper

00:38:19.420 Finn in the latest

00:38:20.580 Star Wars trilogy.

00:38:22.180 And he just

00:38:22.720 participated in a new

00:38:23.400 Apple documentary

00:38:24.180 called Number One

00:38:25.260 on the Call Sheet,

00:38:26.160 Black Leading Men

00:38:27.040 in Hollywood.

00:38:28.580 And this interview,

00:38:29.320 Boyega

00:38:29.700 adopts an accent

00:38:32.560 that's intended

00:38:33.060 to mock white people

00:38:34.120 and he says that

00:38:35.360 white people

00:38:37.940 are uncomfortable

00:38:38.660 with a black man

00:38:40.340 being cast

00:38:40.920 in a leading role

00:38:41.660 in Star Wars.

00:38:43.020 And he starts

00:38:43.760 attacking the fans

00:38:44.840 of Star Wars

00:38:45.600 and let's listen to that.

00:38:47.740 They're pandering.

00:38:49.420 Let me tell you,

00:38:51.760 Star Wars always

00:38:52.540 had the vibe

00:38:53.140 of being in

00:38:53.700 the most whitest

00:38:54.540 elite space.

00:38:55.740 Like,

00:38:55.900 this franchise

00:38:56.500 is so white

00:38:57.200 that it's like

00:38:58.020 a black person

00:38:58.900 existing in that

00:38:59.980 was something.

00:39:01.240 And you can always

00:39:01.840 tell it something

00:39:02.400 when some Star Wars

00:39:03.460 fans try to say,

00:39:04.640 well,

00:39:04.860 you know,

00:39:05.380 we had Lando Calrissian

00:39:06.760 and had Samuel L. Jackson.

00:39:08.600 It's like telling me

00:39:09.660 how many cookie chips

00:39:10.980 are on the cookie dough.

00:39:12.040 I'm like,

00:39:12.500 they just scattered

00:39:13.700 that in there, bro.

00:39:14.380 they're okay

00:39:15.840 with us

00:39:16.300 playing the best friend.

00:39:17.940 But once we

00:39:18.580 touch their heroes,

00:39:20.040 once we lead,

00:39:20.940 once we trailblaze,

00:39:22.340 it's like,

00:39:22.640 oh my God,

00:39:23.260 it's just a bit

00:39:24.120 too much.

00:39:26.040 Yeah,

00:39:26.560 so he just used

00:39:27.100 the phrase

00:39:27.640 most whitest

00:39:28.720 elite space

00:39:30.880 to describe

00:39:32.120 Star Wars.

00:39:34.300 And,

00:39:34.960 and he says

00:39:36.320 that that's,

00:39:36.760 that's always

00:39:37.440 how you could

00:39:37.880 describe Star Wars.

00:39:39.240 Now,

00:39:40.400 admittedly,

00:39:41.040 I'm not someone

00:39:41.940 who could be

00:39:42.840 described as a

00:39:43.860 committed fan

00:39:44.620 of the Star Wars

00:39:45.240 franchise,

00:39:46.120 but anyone

00:39:47.300 who's ever met

00:39:47.840 a Star Wars fan

00:39:48.580 knows that elite

00:39:49.660 is not exactly

00:39:51.080 the adjective

00:39:51.600 that comes to mind.

00:39:53.220 And I don't say

00:39:54.100 that as an insult,

00:39:55.200 it's just,

00:39:56.620 when I think of

00:39:57.080 Star Wars fans,

00:39:57.740 I don't think of

00:39:58.300 elitists.

00:39:59.100 That's just not

00:39:59.660 the description

00:40:00.200 that jumps to mind.

00:40:02.020 We're not talking

00:40:02.640 about yachting

00:40:03.400 or truffle hunting here.

00:40:05.300 No one is racing

00:40:06.400 their vintage cars

00:40:07.420 to private theaters

00:40:08.440 to watch Star Wars,

00:40:09.580 or at least,

00:40:10.100 some people might be,

00:40:11.060 but they're certainly

00:40:11.760 not in the majority.

00:40:14.680 In fact,

00:40:15.380 Star Wars is

00:40:16.480 probably the most

00:40:18.560 popular franchise

00:40:19.440 on the planet.

00:40:21.260 Like,

00:40:21.580 billions of people

00:40:22.720 have enjoyed

00:40:23.620 Star Wars at one

00:40:24.400 time or another.

00:40:25.740 So,

00:40:26.320 I actually can't

00:40:27.060 think of anything

00:40:27.580 less elite

00:40:28.660 than being a

00:40:30.100 Star Wars fan.

00:40:31.020 Right?

00:40:31.220 It's one of the most,

00:40:31.980 it's one of the most

00:40:32.680 non-elite descriptions

00:40:34.560 that you could give

00:40:36.040 someone as

00:40:36.600 Star Wars fan.

00:40:38.320 And,

00:40:38.580 but this is how

00:40:40.040 he describes them.

00:40:42.020 And starts attacking

00:40:43.080 the fans

00:40:43.580 as racist.

00:40:46.020 And,

00:40:46.540 as usual,

00:40:48.040 not understanding

00:40:49.380 or pretending

00:40:50.200 not to understand

00:40:51.120 the criticism.

00:40:52.540 Like,

00:40:53.060 nobody has a problem

00:40:54.240 with watching

00:40:55.220 a black actor

00:40:56.060 on screen.

00:40:57.540 So,

00:40:58.040 when you have actors

00:40:58.520 like John Boyega,

00:40:59.360 they get criticized.

00:41:01.580 And,

00:41:02.080 I think the criticisms

00:41:02.920 of,

00:41:04.640 first of all,

00:41:05.300 a lot,

00:41:05.600 as far as I can

00:41:06.520 understand it,

00:41:07.600 the criticisms

00:41:08.120 of the series

00:41:10.040 that he was in,

00:41:10.760 the trilogy

00:41:11.100 that he was in,

00:41:13.440 it's really gotten,

00:41:14.840 the fans weren't

00:41:15.740 really attacking him.

00:41:17.300 I know there were

00:41:17.560 a lot of fans

00:41:18.020 that didn't like

00:41:18.440 the movies,

00:41:19.060 thought that they

00:41:19.380 were poorly written,

00:41:20.240 thought it had a lot

00:41:20.740 of problems

00:41:21.080 with the way

00:41:21.380 the movies were made.

00:41:22.740 I know there were

00:41:23.740 fans who thought

00:41:24.280 that his character

00:41:25.140 was like underwritten

00:41:26.160 and underutilized.

00:41:29.860 But,

00:41:30.300 that's one of the

00:41:30.780 funny things here

00:41:31.340 is the fans

00:41:31.800 were not really

00:41:32.280 attacking him.

00:41:32.920 And,

00:41:33.320 he just went

00:41:33.760 after him,

00:41:34.340 after them,

00:41:36.420 while,

00:41:37.000 again,

00:41:37.180 not understanding

00:41:37.840 the criticism.

00:41:39.060 Nobody has a problem

00:41:40.060 with a black actor.

00:41:42.400 Okay,

00:41:42.520 so this idea that,

00:41:43.580 well,

00:41:43.920 yeah,

00:41:44.200 as soon as a black guy

00:41:45.960 is cast in a film,

00:41:46.900 suddenly it's woke.

00:41:48.320 No,

00:41:48.540 that's not what

00:41:48.940 anyone is saying.

00:41:51.460 Okay?

00:41:53.380 Denzel Washington

00:41:54.380 has never had

00:41:55.280 any trouble

00:41:55.680 getting work.

00:41:57.060 No one has a problem

00:41:57.840 with Denzel Washington

00:41:58.880 being the lead actor

00:42:01.200 in a film.

00:42:02.200 Okay?

00:42:03.800 Right?

00:42:04.020 We have a problem

00:42:05.760 when diversity

00:42:07.280 is forced into a film

00:42:09.420 for its own sake.

00:42:13.100 That's the issue.

00:42:14.780 When you're watching

00:42:15.640 a movie

00:42:16.040 and you can tell

00:42:17.320 that they've cast

00:42:18.080 the characters

00:42:18.700 in a certain way

00:42:19.880 just in order

00:42:22.780 to make a point

00:42:23.700 about diversity,

00:42:25.740 people have a problem

00:42:26.720 with that.

00:42:30.000 There have been

00:42:31.440 these reports recently

00:42:32.320 and I haven't talked

00:42:32.940 about it

00:42:33.200 because I don't know

00:42:34.480 if it's actually true

00:42:35.480 and I'm hoping

00:42:38.880 against hope

00:42:39.420 that it isn't

00:42:39.980 but there have been

00:42:40.480 reports and rumors

00:42:41.460 about Meryl Streep

00:42:43.840 being cast

00:42:44.800 as Aslan,

00:42:46.760 you know,

00:42:46.980 the lion in

00:42:48.380 Lion,

00:42:48.800 Witch,

00:42:48.960 and the Wardrobe

00:42:49.540 that Greta Gerwig

00:42:51.260 is going to be doing

00:42:51.980 her own version of it,

00:42:52.780 I think for Netflix

00:42:53.480 or Apple

00:42:53.920 or one of those

00:42:54.400 and there have been reports

00:42:56.420 that Meryl Streep

00:42:58.160 is going to be cast

00:42:59.020 to play this character

00:43:00.440 and if they do that,

00:43:04.400 like they have already

00:43:05.360 sunk this remake

00:43:06.540 that they're making.

00:43:07.460 They've already sunk it.

00:43:08.880 People are going to hate it

00:43:10.100 for good reason.

00:43:12.640 That's,

00:43:13.000 now Meryl Streep

00:43:13.460 obviously is not black

00:43:14.280 but that's,

00:43:14.960 as a female,

00:43:15.660 that's a,

00:43:16.160 that is diversity.

00:43:17.360 You are trying to

00:43:18.460 diversify this character

00:43:19.820 and you're doing it

00:43:21.000 to make a point

00:43:21.680 and you're doing it

00:43:22.640 in a way

00:43:22.920 that doesn't make any sense

00:43:23.760 because the lion

00:43:25.640 in the Lion,

00:43:25.980 Witch,

00:43:26.100 and the Wardrobe

00:43:26.640 is a male lion.

00:43:28.720 He's the Christ figure

00:43:29.840 of the film,

00:43:31.480 right?

00:43:33.760 In this allegory,

00:43:35.240 in this,

00:43:35.520 in this story

00:43:36.940 that I think

00:43:37.940 everyone understands

00:43:38.660 is supposed to be

00:43:39.640 an allegory.

00:43:40.640 He's the Christ figure.

00:43:42.680 He's,

00:43:42.940 so that makes him a male.

00:43:44.500 He's a male lion

00:43:45.360 with a mane.

00:43:46.700 So either you're going to

00:43:47.960 get rid of the mane

00:43:48.680 and have it be a female lion

00:43:50.040 and get rid of the Christ

00:43:51.800 allegory entirely

00:43:52.660 or what?

00:43:53.760 You're going to have,

00:43:54.320 still have the,

00:43:55.220 you know,

00:43:56.020 the king of the jungle

00:43:57.100 look with the mane

00:43:57.960 but it'll be a female voice

00:43:59.320 coming out?

00:44:01.880 That's the kind of diversity

00:44:03.160 people have a problem with.

00:44:04.660 People don't have a problem

00:44:05.680 with Meryl Streep

00:44:06.860 being cast in things.

00:44:07.700 Meryl Streep has been casted

00:44:09.060 in dozens and dozens

00:44:11.580 of films

00:44:12.280 and no one ever

00:44:14.460 has a problem with it.

00:44:16.520 They will have a problem

00:44:17.640 with that.

00:44:19.820 Why is it?

00:44:20.640 Because that's diversity

00:44:22.520 for its own sake

00:44:23.820 which is already annoying

00:44:25.920 and in this case

00:44:28.140 you're doing it

00:44:28.760 in a way

00:44:29.300 that undermines

00:44:30.740 the fundamental point

00:44:32.680 of the story

00:44:33.540 and that's what people

00:44:35.220 have an issue with.

00:44:35.900 Have you checked

00:44:37.340 your home title lately?

00:44:38.460 Most homeowners never do

00:44:39.460 but with the growing amount

00:44:40.580 of digital scams

00:44:41.540 targeting property owners

00:44:42.700 it's more important

00:44:43.600 than ever.

00:44:44.380 With modern technology

00:44:45.220 criminals have found

00:44:45.960 an alarming way

00:44:46.760 to steal your home equity.

00:44:48.340 They simply forge

00:44:49.240 your signature

00:44:49.700 on a document

00:44:50.360 add a fake notary stamp

00:44:51.820 pay a small county fee

00:44:53.100 and just like that

00:44:54.360 your home title

00:44:55.300 gets transferred

00:44:56.000 without your knowledge.

00:44:56.820 Once they control

00:44:57.720 your title

00:44:58.120 they can take out

00:44:59.000 loans against your equity

00:44:59.820 or even sell

00:45:00.580 your property entirely.

00:45:02.240 The worst part

00:45:02.840 you might not discover

00:45:04.180 anything's wrong

00:45:04.920 until you receive

00:45:05.560 an unexpected

00:45:06.200 collection notice

00:45:07.540 or foreclosure letter.

00:45:09.120 Don't wait until

00:45:09.680 it's too late

00:45:10.160 take a moment right now

00:45:11.140 to verify your home

00:45:12.240 title status

00:45:12.820 and protect what's

00:45:13.620 likely your biggest investment.

00:45:15.300 Use promo code Walsh

00:45:16.100 at hometitlelock.com

00:45:17.520 to make sure your title

00:45:18.460 is still in your name.

00:45:19.800 You'll also get a free

00:45:20.700 title history report

00:45:21.760 plus a free 14 day trial

00:45:23.640 of their million dollar

00:45:24.860 triple lock protection.

00:45:25.800 That's 24-7 monitoring

00:45:27.260 of your title

00:45:27.800 urgent alerts

00:45:28.780 to any changes

00:45:29.600 and if fraud should happen

00:45:31.140 they'll spend

00:45:31.860 up to one million dollars

00:45:33.160 to fix it.

00:45:33.720 Go to hometitlelock.com

00:45:35.280 now use promo code Walsh

00:45:36.600 that's hometitlelock.com

00:45:37.960 promo code Walsh.

00:45:39.700 Mainstream media

00:45:40.320 thinks you're too dumb

00:45:41.120 to see through their lies

00:45:42.160 they twist the narrative

00:45:43.180 and manipulate the headlines

00:45:44.180 bury the truth.

00:45:45.240 We know better

00:45:45.660 at the Daily Wire

00:45:46.160 we bring you the facts

00:45:47.140 no filter no spin

00:45:48.120 and you get in

00:45:49.060 on the conversation.

00:45:50.080 Join the live chat

00:45:50.780 during our daily shows

00:45:51.680 100% uncensored

00:45:52.660 ad free and packed

00:45:53.580 with fans who actually

00:45:54.340 think for themselves.

00:45:55.020 My producers are also

00:45:56.140 in the chat daily

00:45:56.840 to add to the conversation

00:45:57.880 get the news

00:45:58.720 the way that it should be

00:46:00.160 honest, fearless

00:46:01.000 and without an agenda

00:46:02.500 your voice matters

00:46:03.720 be a part of it.

00:46:04.680 Join now at

00:46:05.080 dailywire.com

00:46:05.940 slash subscribe

00:46:06.660 now let's get to

00:46:07.480 our daily cancellation.

00:46:08.240 here's a mildly depressing

00:46:15.820 anecdote from this country's

00:46:17.320 recent history

00:46:17.880 that you're probably

00:46:18.460 not familiar with

00:46:19.100 for several decades

00:46:19.960 no one including

00:46:20.960 government officials

00:46:21.760 lawyers, leading academics

00:46:23.000 could figure out

00:46:24.280 how many laws existed

00:46:25.840 in the United States

00:46:26.660 in 1982

00:46:27.300 the Department of Justice

00:46:28.620 launched a two year effort

00:46:30.080 to count all of the laws

00:46:31.860 in the U.S. Code

00:46:32.840 by hand

00:46:33.520 across more than

00:46:34.540 20,000 pages of text

00:46:35.980 they ended up guessing

00:46:37.260 that the number

00:46:37.700 of federal laws

00:46:38.360 was somewhere around

00:46:39.020 3,000

00:46:39.720 but they admitted

00:46:40.240 they weren't exactly sure

00:46:41.220 the American Bar Association

00:46:42.720 tapped in

00:46:43.400 and attempted to conduct

00:46:44.940 a computerized search

00:46:45.960 their only conclusion

00:46:46.720 was that the number

00:46:47.840 was higher than 3,000

00:46:49.160 but beyond that

00:46:50.240 they had no idea

00:46:50.940 so they gave up as well

00:46:52.580 all we know for sure

00:46:53.900 is that for whatever reason

00:46:55.060 as time goes on

00:46:55.800 the number of laws increases

00:46:57.660 sort of like the number

00:46:58.820 of federal bureaucrats

00:46:59.800 the number of Haitian nationals

00:47:01.060 living in Springfield

00:47:01.800 inevitably from year to year

00:47:03.280 you see more and more of them

00:47:04.880 new laws are passed

00:47:06.260 and in some small way

00:47:07.520 and sometimes in significant ways

00:47:09.020 your freedoms are further restricted

00:47:10.640 this is a given

00:47:11.640 you're not supposed to question it

00:47:12.600 or even notice it really

00:47:13.600 and there are a lot of examples

00:47:15.580 of this particular phenomenon

00:47:17.180 here's one of them

00:47:19.420 without a constant stream

00:47:21.560 of new laws

00:47:22.220 the grand progressive experiment

00:47:24.120 would collapse overnight

00:47:25.760 at its core

00:47:26.500 progressivism always and everywhere

00:47:28.640 attempts to use the law

00:47:30.220 to override human nature

00:47:31.720 as we discussed before

00:47:33.300 civil rights law

00:47:34.420 is being used

00:47:35.100 to force police

00:47:35.820 and fire departments

00:47:36.540 to select dishonest

00:47:37.700 and physically unfit candidates

00:47:39.200 even though everyone

00:47:40.380 intuitively knows

00:47:41.040 it's a bad idea

00:47:41.700 the point of hate speech laws

00:47:43.180 in the UK

00:47:43.540 is to discourage

00:47:44.400 British citizens

00:47:45.060 from noticing

00:47:45.700 that hordes of migrants

00:47:46.860 from Nigeria and Zimbabwe

00:47:48.560 aren't actually

00:47:49.420 a net positive

00:47:50.100 for their society

00:47:50.820 in states like California

00:47:52.120 and Minnesota

00:47:52.540 laws force women

00:47:53.960 to compete against men

00:47:55.260 sometimes something

00:47:56.000 that's you know

00:47:56.540 the overwhelming majority

00:47:57.260 of Americans recognize

00:47:58.120 as insane

00:47:58.560 and on and on

00:47:59.080 when they're not happy

00:48:00.480 with natural human behavior

00:48:01.620 progressives simply

00:48:02.420 make a new law

00:48:03.840 in a futile attempt

00:48:05.220 to reprogram everyone

00:48:06.580 or to paper over

00:48:07.880 some aspect of

00:48:08.960 the human condition

00:48:10.440 that interferes

00:48:11.240 with their broader agenda

00:48:12.180 and one of the more

00:48:13.680 egregious recent examples

00:48:15.840 of this tactic

00:48:16.620 involves maternity leave policies

00:48:18.720 this has come up

00:48:20.320 on the show

00:48:20.720 in the past week or so

00:48:21.660 in the context

00:48:22.260 of several lawmakers

00:48:23.220 who just shut down

00:48:24.120 business in Congress

00:48:24.960 for a week

00:48:25.500 in order to campaign

00:48:26.820 for better maternity accommodations

00:48:29.740 for themselves

00:48:30.760 specifically they want

00:48:32.300 the right to vote

00:48:33.060 from home

00:48:33.620 after they've had a child

00:48:34.660 even though it's both

00:48:35.560 unconstitutional

00:48:36.440 and insulting

00:48:37.640 to their constituents

00:48:38.380 but this is a much

00:48:40.980 larger issue

00:48:41.680 than a handful

00:48:42.420 of entitled lawmakers

00:48:43.360 there's now a nationwide

00:48:44.700 effort underway

00:48:45.320 to drastically expand

00:48:46.720 maternity leave policies

00:48:47.920 on the theory

00:48:48.800 that women need

00:48:49.400 to spend more time

00:48:50.220 at home

00:48:50.540 with their children

00:48:51.420 after giving birth

00:48:52.160 these efforts

00:48:53.300 would grant employees

00:48:54.600 paid leave

00:48:55.300 which isn't currently

00:48:56.240 guaranteed by federal law

00:48:57.420 and they'd significantly

00:48:58.380 expand the lengths

00:48:59.540 of these leaves

00:49:00.360 of absence as well

00:49:01.300 more and more states

00:49:02.740 are joining in

00:49:03.400 and now there's talk

00:49:04.540 of an expansion

00:49:05.240 of maternity leave

00:49:05.980 at the federal level

00:49:06.860 in Alabama for example

00:49:08.200 AL.com reports

00:49:09.660 quote

00:49:09.940 Governor Kay Ivey

00:49:11.020 has signed into law

00:49:11.780 a paid parental leave

00:49:12.900 bill on Wednesday

00:49:13.700 which will give

00:49:14.540 state employees

00:49:15.280 paid time off

00:49:16.020 after the birth

00:49:16.560 of a child

00:49:16.940 this law

00:49:17.680 will give Alabama

00:49:18.520 female employees

00:49:19.300 eight weeks

00:49:19.880 of paid parental leave

00:49:20.660 in the event

00:49:21.080 of a birth

00:49:21.500 stillbirth

00:49:22.240 or miscarriage

00:49:22.820 of a child

00:49:23.320 male employees

00:49:24.580 would receive

00:49:25.060 two weeks of leave

00:49:25.860 under the same

00:49:26.580 circumstances

00:49:27.220 and with this law

00:49:28.580 Alabama became

00:49:29.200 the 39th state

00:49:30.020 in the country

00:49:30.320 to offer

00:49:30.800 paid maternal leave

00:49:31.720 to state employees

00:49:32.600 and teachers

00:49:33.080 now at the outset

00:49:34.120 it needs to be said

00:49:35.260 that you know

00:49:37.020 these kinds of laws

00:49:37.980 create

00:49:39.040 and when they're

00:49:40.300 in particular

00:49:40.860 applied to businesses

00:49:42.120 to the private sector

00:49:42.960 which there's a big

00:49:43.620 push for this now

00:49:44.460 they create

00:49:45.900 significant costs

00:49:47.100 for businesses

00:49:47.660 and their employees

00:49:49.020 particularly small businesses

00:49:49.980 they are then oppressive

00:49:52.140 often onerous

00:49:53.420 ultimately unsustainable

00:49:54.920 when a woman is entitled

00:49:56.320 to receive a salary

00:49:57.200 for performing

00:49:57.780 no work whatsoever

00:49:58.680 for months on end

00:49:59.640 sometimes multiple times

00:50:00.740 in the span of a few years

00:50:01.600 someone else

00:50:03.040 has to make up

00:50:04.180 the laws

00:50:04.740 and depending on how

00:50:05.900 the state system works

00:50:07.360 the company

00:50:08.220 or the taxpayer

00:50:09.020 has to pay

00:50:09.620 for the worker's salary

00:50:10.540 either directly

00:50:11.220 or through insurance

00:50:12.620 now to be clear

00:50:14.020 I think it's great

00:50:15.780 if companies offer

00:50:16.960 maternity leave

00:50:17.620 I am in favor of that

00:50:19.480 if I ran a company

00:50:20.540 I would offer

00:50:22.120 maternity leave

00:50:22.960 if I could

00:50:23.880 but that's the point

00:50:26.180 that if I could

00:50:27.080 that's very different

00:50:29.460 from saying

00:50:29.960 the government

00:50:30.600 should mandate it

00:50:31.800 because not every company

00:50:33.700 can afford

00:50:34.400 whatever arbitrary

00:50:35.360 amount of leave

00:50:36.380 the government

00:50:37.160 might require them

00:50:38.220 to offer

00:50:38.720 not every business

00:50:40.380 is the same

00:50:41.000 they can't all absorb

00:50:42.340 that cost

00:50:43.120 or afford to pay

00:50:44.320 an employee

00:50:44.780 to not work

00:50:45.700 for a few months

00:50:46.400 or more

00:50:46.860 or afford to pay

00:50:48.060 someone to come in

00:50:48.820 and replace that employee

00:50:49.740 and then get rid of them

00:50:50.580 when the other employee

00:50:51.680 comes back

00:50:52.360 not every company

00:50:53.460 can afford that

00:50:54.220 even though I think

00:50:56.300 it would be great

00:50:56.820 ideally if they did

00:50:58.420 but if you turn on

00:50:59.240 any news broadcast

00:51:00.160 that's discussing

00:51:00.860 this issue

00:51:01.320 you'll find that

00:51:02.100 these drawbacks

00:51:03.140 are not often presented

00:51:04.620 instead maternity leave

00:51:05.780 bills are inevitably

00:51:06.980 presented as a

00:51:07.820 common sense opportunity

00:51:08.780 to help women

00:51:09.540 bond with their children

00:51:10.860 and anyone who opposes

00:51:12.260 the idea

00:51:12.780 is portrayed as

00:51:13.640 heartless

00:51:14.120 and misogynistic

00:51:15.100 Good Morning America

00:51:16.300 for example

00:51:16.860 just posted this

00:51:17.960 viral footage

00:51:18.660 of a mother

00:51:19.580 complaining about

00:51:20.400 the end of her

00:51:21.280 three months

00:51:22.020 of maternity leave

00:51:22.840 she's clearly upset

00:51:24.260 about the fact

00:51:25.500 that she's going to

00:51:26.100 have to leave her twins

00:51:27.100 upset for good reason

00:51:28.600 and she concludes

00:51:31.000 by demanding

00:51:31.860 maternity leave

00:51:32.800 of more than a year

00:51:34.120 watch

00:51:34.720 so today is my

00:51:37.200 last

00:51:37.900 day of maternity

00:51:40.380 leave

00:51:40.920 and I go back

00:51:42.000 to work tomorrow

00:51:42.720 and

00:51:44.820 I just

00:51:45.940 feel like I haven't

00:51:52.360 had enough time

00:51:53.080 with them

00:51:53.620 I know I got longer

00:51:55.260 than

00:51:55.740 a lot of women

00:51:57.540 get

00:51:57.940 with three months

00:52:01.880 but it just

00:52:02.640 doesn't

00:52:03.140 I just don't

00:52:05.620 feel ready

00:52:06.280 it's just

00:52:07.100 like such an

00:52:07.840 abrupt change

00:52:08.720 that you're

00:52:09.940 with your babies

00:52:11.000 all the time

00:52:12.280 and then

00:52:13.460 you pick them

00:52:15.520 up from daycare

00:52:16.300 and you might

00:52:16.880 just get

00:52:17.380 a few hours

00:52:18.400 I just felt

00:52:20.460 like so disconnected

00:52:21.780 to them

00:52:22.500 I would

00:52:23.320 sorry

00:52:25.140 I'm gonna get

00:52:25.660 emotional

00:52:26.000 I would just

00:52:26.780 like cry

00:52:27.400 like they're

00:52:28.120 gonna forget

00:52:28.600 me

00:52:29.060 or I would

00:52:29.820 come home

00:52:30.300 from work

00:52:31.280 and like feel

00:52:32.080 like they forgot

00:52:32.740 me because

00:52:33.240 they didn't

00:52:33.600 like smile

00:52:34.080 right away

00:52:34.700 when they saw

00:52:36.060 me and I know

00:52:36.740 they like

00:52:37.540 didn't but

00:52:38.360 it's really hard

00:52:39.500 to convince

00:52:39.920 yourself that

00:52:40.760 that they

00:52:41.760 don't

00:52:42.340 I also love

00:52:43.020 my career

00:52:43.700 I am proud

00:52:46.800 of what I

00:52:47.440 I do

00:52:48.400 but

00:52:48.860 there's always

00:52:50.420 that mom

00:52:50.940 guilt of

00:52:51.840 you're not

00:52:52.840 giving enough

00:52:53.680 time to your

00:52:54.360 kids

00:52:54.740 so many people

00:52:55.700 from so many

00:52:56.360 other countries

00:52:56.960 like chiming in

00:52:57.740 with their

00:52:58.180 maternity

00:52:59.000 and paternity

00:52:59.960 leaves are

00:53:00.880 a lot of

00:53:01.500 the European

00:53:01.880 countries in

00:53:02.680 Canada

00:53:03.080 are 12

00:53:04.700 plus months

00:53:05.560 for women

00:53:06.240 that's kind

00:53:07.360 of more

00:53:07.820 like

00:53:08.320 the message

00:53:10.120 I would love

00:53:10.820 to like talk

00:53:11.740 about and get

00:53:12.340 across is

00:53:13.120 that could be

00:53:13.820 a lot better

00:53:14.540 now we can all

00:53:16.540 see that this

00:53:17.300 woman is clearly

00:53:18.160 devastated that she

00:53:18.940 has to leave her

00:53:19.580 babies and return

00:53:20.240 to work for

00:53:20.980 good reason

00:53:22.020 and if you

00:53:23.840 scroll through

00:53:24.240 the comments

00:53:24.660 you'll find

00:53:25.060 that most

00:53:25.420 people are

00:53:25.880 responding by

00:53:26.560 demanding that

00:53:27.060 we pass a

00:53:27.520 law that would

00:53:28.260 give her more

00:53:28.840 time to stay

00:53:29.360 home and as

00:53:31.020 you saw in the

00:53:31.440 video she suggests

00:53:32.200 adopting the system

00:53:32.880 they have in

00:53:33.220 Canada where

00:53:34.100 mothers can

00:53:34.500 apparently take

00:53:35.000 more than a

00:53:35.620 year off of

00:53:36.220 work and

00:53:37.520 employers are

00:53:38.340 mandated to

00:53:39.840 provide that

00:53:40.480 but none of

00:53:42.500 these people

00:53:43.040 address the

00:53:44.720 question of

00:53:45.840 what happens

00:53:46.660 when that time

00:53:47.860 is up

00:53:48.220 unless we're

00:53:49.600 giving 18

00:53:50.420 years of paid

00:53:51.400 maternity leave

00:53:52.120 then eventually

00:53:53.160 the leave

00:53:54.060 expires and

00:53:54.840 that means

00:53:55.940 that the woman

00:53:56.380 is going back

00:53:56.960 to the office

00:53:57.560 that will be

00:53:59.040 the end result

00:53:59.820 no matter what

00:54:00.420 with this system

00:54:01.140 if you give her

00:54:01.740 9 months or

00:54:02.320 12 months or

00:54:02.840 18 months

00:54:03.400 that separation

00:54:04.900 will not be

00:54:05.620 easier it will

00:54:06.540 not be better

00:54:07.460 for her or her

00:54:08.460 child at the

00:54:09.080 end of it if

00:54:09.460 anything it'll

00:54:10.140 be worse

00:54:10.760 you know we

00:54:12.520 can't solve this

00:54:13.480 problem with a

00:54:14.420 few months more

00:54:15.600 months of maternity

00:54:16.580 leave the

00:54:17.880 fundamental problem

00:54:18.980 the one that

00:54:19.520 progressive laws

00:54:20.220 attempt to paper

00:54:21.020 over is that

00:54:23.280 the mother is

00:54:23.920 leaving her

00:54:24.460 children in the

00:54:25.300 first place

00:54:25.860 what we're

00:54:27.060 writing off as

00:54:28.000 a defect in

00:54:29.400 current policy on

00:54:30.600 maternity leave is

00:54:31.360 actually just an

00:54:33.100 inevitable consequence

00:54:34.560 of having so many

00:54:35.820 women in the

00:54:36.520 workplace this is

00:54:38.100 exactly why most

00:54:39.380 societies throughout

00:54:40.040 history have said

00:54:40.820 that it's better for

00:54:41.460 women to stay home

00:54:42.020 and raise their

00:54:42.400 children because but

00:54:43.600 we want to have

00:54:44.220 our cake and even

00:54:44.980 eat it too we want

00:54:45.760 to live in a

00:54:46.300 feminist utopia where

00:54:47.340 there are just as

00:54:47.960 many women working

00:54:48.780 as men if not more

00:54:49.760 but we also want

00:54:51.140 to make sure that

00:54:51.760 neither mother nor

00:54:52.520 child experiences the

00:54:53.560 emotional consequences

00:54:54.540 or for the child

00:54:55.360 developmental consequences

00:54:56.680 of being separated

00:54:57.460 from each other but

00:54:58.440 that's not possible so

00:55:01.100 the real solution is to

00:55:02.660 try to move to a

00:55:03.880 place as a society

00:55:06.160 where more women are

00:55:08.600 staying home with

00:55:09.540 their children once

00:55:10.420 they become mothers

00:55:11.020 and nobody wants to

00:55:14.080 say that so we talk

00:55:15.280 about maternity leave

00:55:16.280 instead we look at a

00:55:17.700 a video of a woman

00:55:19.060 crying she's

00:55:19.920 devastated she has to

00:55:20.600 leave her children

00:55:21.340 and we all respond by

00:55:23.080 saying well the

00:55:23.620 solution here is to

00:55:24.360 give her four more

00:55:25.100 months what does that

00:55:26.920 solve at the end of

00:55:28.440 it what is better at

00:55:30.460 the end of it she

00:55:31.080 leaves so let's give

00:55:31.980 her a year now she's

00:55:33.240 leaving when the kid

00:55:33.880 is a year old both

00:55:34.900 kids are a year old

00:55:35.740 in what way is that

00:55:37.760 better in what way has

00:55:39.060 that solved the problem

00:55:40.260 of the fact that she's

00:55:41.800 leaving the child

00:55:42.540 okay it's time to

00:55:45.280 stop dodging the real

00:55:46.400 issue everybody

00:55:48.000 watching the clip

00:55:48.840 immediately understands

00:55:49.820 at a basic human

00:55:50.540 level that those

00:55:51.880 children need their

00:55:52.640 mother the idea that

00:55:54.840 the children desperately

00:55:55.680 need their mother for

00:55:56.560 12 months but then

00:55:57.720 not at all after that

00:55:59.120 is ridiculous now

00:56:02.540 maybe this mother is

00:56:04.460 forced to go to work

00:56:05.280 because of her

00:56:06.260 financial circumstances

00:56:07.180 she does hint at that

00:56:08.100 elsewhere in the video

00:56:08.940 that might be I don't

00:56:11.280 know her financial

00:56:11.820 situation but the

00:56:15.200 point is that that's

00:56:15.880 clearly not the ideal

00:56:16.960 outcome whether it's

00:56:18.840 her choice or not

00:56:19.620 efforts to expand

00:56:21.500 maternity leave like

00:56:22.500 so many other failed

00:56:23.420 progressive experiments

00:56:24.240 are a doomed attempt

00:56:25.700 to rewrite human

00:56:26.540 nature instead of

00:56:27.280 giving people in this

00:56:28.080 case mothers what they

00:56:29.320 actually want and need

00:56:30.420 in the end that will

00:56:32.280 lead to more unhappy

00:56:33.260 mothers more confused

00:56:34.240 children and yes more

00:56:35.500 pointless laws that we

00:56:36.560 can't even count and

00:56:38.760 that is why the people

00:56:39.460 trying to dodge the real

00:56:40.840 problem by focusing on

00:56:42.160 maternity leave are

00:56:43.720 today canceled that'll

00:56:46.360 do it for the show

00:56:46.720 today thanks for

00:56:47.160 watching thanks for

00:56:47.620 listening talk to you

00:56:48.440 tomorrow have a great

00:56:49.180 day godspeed

00:56:50.300 thank you

00:56:57.220 you

00:56:58.680 you

00:56:58.980 you

00:57:07.880 you

The Matt Walsh Show - April 08, 2025

Ep. 1571 - Debunking John Oliver’s Insane Defense Of Men In Women’s Sports

Episode Stats

Length

Words per Minute

Word Count

Sentence Count

Misogynist Sentences

Hate Speech Sentences

Summary

Transcript