The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1577 - LGBT Activists PANIC After This Huge Move In The Fight To Protect Children

00:00:00.000 Today, the Matt Wall Show, Hungary has passed a constitutional amendment which effectively

00:00:03.480 bans pride parades in the country. The media is predictably hysterical about it, but I'll explain

00:00:07.640 why we should put a similar measure in place in this country. Also, SNL shocks the world with a

00:00:12.120 skit making fun of the idea of gay men having babies. Gayle King says that her carnival ride 0.50

00:00:17.540 into space with Katy Perry makes her an astronaut, and anyone who disagrees is a sexist. And

00:00:21.880 archaeologists discover more evidence of child sacrifice by indigenous tribes. But don't worry, 1.00

00:00:26.420 this was, according to a CBS article, nonviolent child sacrifice. We'll talk about all that and

00:00:30.920 more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:02:06.700 policy position that supposedly progressive people have, the first step is always to escape the world

00:02:12.360 of euphemisms and to start talking in explicit detail about what is actually happening. This might

00:02:17.560 sound straightforward, but every single organ of the left is committed to making sure you don't

00:02:21.960 do this. They would much rather, you know, you debate the abstract concept of a woman's right

00:02:26.840 to choose, for example, than discuss how children are dismembered and discarded like trash by abortion

00:02:31.660 clinics. They would also prefer to use terms like gender-affirming care instead of discussing

00:02:36.280 chemical castration, which is what the drugs do, and on and on. Euphemisms are one of the most potent

00:02:41.920 tools that these people have. They are everywhere in every single debate on every issue, and in every

00:02:47.800 case, they're a gross misrepresentation of reality. They need to be neutralized before any actual

00:02:53.680 discussion can begin. So to that end, take this headline from the other day. It ran in The Guardian,

00:02:59.940 quote, Hungary passes constitutional amendment to ban LGBTQ plus gatherings. The Associated Press ran a

00:03:08.280 similar story, quote, Hungary passes constitutional amendment to ban LGBTQ plus public events seen as

00:03:14.760 a major blow to rights. The article explains that Hungary's parliament just overwhelmingly passed an

00:03:20.180 amendment that will outlaw, quote, public events by LGBTQ plus communities. Now, if you're just skimming 0.98

00:03:28.280 these headlines, this might seem like a surprising development. You might wonder, well, what exactly are

00:03:34.760 public events by LGBTQ plus communities exactly? And what precisely is an LGBTQ plus gathering?

00:03:42.900 And if you take these headlines literally at surface level, then it sounds like the government of Hungary

00:03:47.540 has just made it illegal for gay people to appear in public for any reason. It's a total crackdown on

00:03:54.780 figure skating and musical theater and art exhibitions. Gay people can't even get together and watch, 1.00

00:04:00.140 you know, glee reruns on the couch without getting hauled to prison. This is the current state of 0.98

00:04:04.340 Hungary, if you believe The Guardian and The Associated Press and the rest of the corporate media. But in

00:04:08.380 reality, of course, Hungary has not banned gay people from assembling in public. What they have banned

00:04:14.620 are disturbing and morally objectionable public displays of sexual hedonism that can easily be

00:04:20.880 observed by children. And that includes Hungary's annual pride parade. Pull up any footage of this parade

00:04:28.380 that's posted online and you'll quickly see what I'm talking about. Here's some of it, or at least the

00:04:33.820 parts we can play. This is from Budapest several years back. Watch.

00:04:42.920 More than 10,000 people in Hungary's capital, Budapest, have been taking part in gay pride.

00:04:49.860 They were calling for greater tolerance and protesting against discrimination,

00:04:54.260 as well as a chance to have a good old party.

00:04:56.580 It comes after recent years when street clashes have erupted with violent far-right demonstrators.

00:05:05.960 Dozens of far-right extremists, including neo-Nazis, held anti-gay protests, but a heavy police

00:05:12.260 presence stopped them from attacking people.

00:05:14.340 Elsewhere in Ukraine, Kiev's gay pride was cancelled.

00:05:20.300 So in case you're fortunate enough to be listening to the audio podcast, there is a man

00:05:23.940 in only his underwear waving a pride flag, and then we see a little girl jumping up and down.

00:05:30.300 And again, this is just the most sanitized footage that we could play.

00:05:34.300 This is what the corporate press means when they say that Hungary has banned LGBTQ events and LGBTQ

00:05:39.440 gatherings. This is the truth behind the euphemism. They mean that Hungary has banned

00:05:44.200 public indecency that everyone, including children, can see. They've banned events where

00:05:50.880 men walk around in just their underwear in front of children. In fact, in many cases,

00:05:55.700 these public displays are explicitly directed at children. And this is what pride parades always 0.99

00:06:00.860 entail, as we've discussed dozens of times on this show. So if you actually look at the text of

00:06:04.780 the amendment that just passed in Hungary, and again, it was an overwhelming vote in Hungary's

00:06:08.180 parliament, passing by a margin of 140 to 21. And if you look at it, you'll immediately understand

00:06:13.940 why it passed. This is not simply an amendment about pride parades or gay gatherings or anything

00:06:18.540 like that. It's not, as the Associated Press claims, an amendment that constitutes a major blow to

00:06:24.140 rights. In reality, it's exactly the opposite. This amendment, with very forceful and unapologetic

00:06:29.400 language, affirms the right of everyone, and especially children, to enjoy public spaces without

00:06:35.600 being confronted by someone else's sexual obsessions. As far as I know, this is the first

00:06:41.680 major piece of legislation, certainly the first constitutional amendment, to explicitly state

00:06:45.640 that, you know, essentially gay and trans activists are not, in fact, the only people on the planet

00:06:50.880 with rights that deserve protection. Until relatively recently, that didn't need to be spelled out,

00:06:55.920 but now it does. So here's the National Review summary of the amendment. Quote,

00:07:00.280 The amendment forbids LGBT pride events that conservative lawmakers argued threaten the

00:07:05.700 well-being of children. One of its provisions specifically declares that children's rights to

00:07:09.820 moral, physical, and intellectual development supersede the right to peaceful assembly and

00:07:15.180 almost every other right except the right to life. Hungarian authorities are also allowed to use

00:07:19.680 facial recognition software to identify and potentially fine demonstrators at the newly

00:07:23.680 prohibited pride parades if they're held in defiance of the law. Close quote.

00:07:27.380 Yes, this is an amendment which codifies a law passed by parliament a few weeks ago which states that

00:07:33.120 a child has a right to be protected physically, morally, and spiritually, and that this right

00:07:38.360 supersedes the right of gay people to celebrate their sexuality in the town square. Now, that's exactly 1.00

00:07:45.860 the right way to frame this. It's certainly the honest way to frame it. You know, virtually all of our

00:07:52.420 cultural and political debates, regardless of the particular topic, ultimately come down to a battle

00:07:59.380 of competing rights and interests. And that's not normally how you see policy debates framed, but

00:08:05.520 it's the truth. That's what all of this always comes down to. I mean, even something as simple

00:08:11.020 as a speed limit involves weighing various rights and interests. On the one hand, you have people's

00:08:16.140 reasonable interest in traveling to their destinations quickly. On the other hand, you have people's

00:08:20.580 reasonable interest in not being killed in a high-speed car accident. These two interests are

00:08:25.700 obviously in tension. I mean, if we wanted absolute safety on the highway, we'd set the speed limit to

00:08:32.500 five miles per hour, but we don't do that because we've decided that other interests are also important.

00:08:38.500 And every functioning society has to weigh competing interests like this in every single area of policy.

00:08:44.980 policy. So the only way to sort through this mess is to come to some kind of understanding

00:08:53.140 about which rights are most fundamental and most important. With this amendment, Hungary has decided

00:09:01.640 that apart from the right to life, the most fundamental right, the right that is most important in a functioning

00:09:08.600 society, is a child's right to protection and care for their adequate physical, mental, and moral development.

00:09:15.860 Now, you can agree or disagree with that philosophical claim. I, of course, strongly agree with it. But

00:09:21.300 regardless of your particular stance on the issue, you can't deny that at the very least,

00:09:25.580 they are dealing with these questions in a clear and coherent way. The opponents of the amendment,

00:09:30.940 on the other hand, are not responding coherently. Instead, they're reacting in exactly the kind of

00:09:34.920 hysterical manner you would expect. They're lying about the content of the amendment, as we just discussed.

00:09:39.260 They're also setting off smoke bombs in Hungary's parliament and blocking the entrance to government

00:09:43.900 buildings. Watch.

00:09:44.980 So again, if you're listening to the audio podcast, you've got guys setting off these smoke bombs in the

00:10:12.660 middle of the parliament. This is the response you expect from people who know that they have

00:10:16.260 no actual argument. They'll blockade buildings. They'll spread propaganda. They'll detonate smoke

00:10:21.000 bombs. The one thing they won't do, because they can't do it, is rationally explain why you're wrong,

00:10:28.760 and they are right. In this case, these LGBT activists simply cannot articulate any reason 1.00

00:10:33.020 to oppose this amendment. And there are a couple of reasons for that. One of the reasons,

00:10:37.540 of course, is that these so-called pride parades are indefensible morally and practically. Every

00:10:44.000 sane person knows that they should be banned from public streets. This, again, would have been

00:10:49.240 commonly understood by basically everyone until 15 seconds ago. And anyone who's ever seen footage

00:10:54.140 of these parades understands this. But the more fundamental issue is that even if the pride parades

00:11:00.420 weren't bizarre and explicit and objectionable, these activists would still have a problem.

00:11:08.420 And this is the really basic philosophical problem that the left has that they just never,

00:11:13.460 ever grapple with. So put simply, the leftist conception of human rights gives no real basis

00:11:21.720 for objecting to this constitutional amendment or to any other law that they don't like.

00:11:27.240 Because these people believe that rights are social constructs that are codified by the government.

00:11:35.760 They generally reject the idea that rights come from God. After all, it's hard to make the case that

00:11:41.760 the right to, let's say, abort a baby created by God somehow comes from God. God creates the baby and

00:11:49.700 then also gives us the moral right to kill the baby. It's impossible to argue that. And so they have

00:11:55.480 to abandon the idea that rights come from God. They also don't believe in God, most of them,

00:12:01.360 or they pretend that they don't. But if rights are social constructs, then, which is what they,

00:12:07.280 again, what they say, then society can abolish a right just as easily and just as legitimately as

00:12:15.680 it creates it. And that's exactly what has happened here, you know, from the perspective of the left,

00:12:22.200 if they're being consistent. Hungary, through its democratically elected government,

00:12:26.560 has decided that the absolute right to gay pride displays no longer exists in their culture.

00:12:33.820 As a result, it makes no sense for the left to object.

00:12:38.080 You know, they can't say that the rights of LGBT people are being infringed in Hungary. We saw that

00:12:42.480 headline. They say, a major blow to rights. Well, no, it's not.

00:12:46.640 That right doesn't exist anymore. Rights are a social construct, according to you. And in that

00:12:53.980 society, in that culture, that right just doesn't exist. That's a construct that they have no longer

00:12:59.840 constructed. They have deconstructed that right. It no longer exists. There is no authority higher

00:13:05.680 than society and government, according to you, if you're on the left. And those authorities have

00:13:11.280 spoken. So that's all there is to it. In other words, gay activists are melting down in Hungary

00:13:17.900 right now because they're realizing, if only subconsciously, that their ideology can be erased

00:13:23.200 just as quickly as it took hold. As it turns out, a fiction that's maintained by a patchwork of laws

00:13:29.280 and government policy can also be eliminated by law and government policy. And it's not just the so-called

00:13:35.300 LGBT community in Hungary that's coming to that realization. In this country, as we've discussed,

00:13:39.560 in America, pride parades are also facing serious problems, mainly because the major sponsors are

00:13:45.400 pulling out and people are losing interest. They're going door to door in San Francisco right now to

00:13:49.840 cover a multi-million dollar funding shortfall for their pride events this summer. In every respect,

00:13:55.820 this movement has become weak and desperate. And if there was ever a moment then to implement a

00:14:02.620 Hungary-style ban on pride parades in this country, now's the time. 1.00

00:14:06.920 Yes, activists in this country would inevitably freak out, just like they're doing in Hungary.

00:14:14.440 But there are some things that are a lot more important than the feelings of screeching left-wing

00:14:19.260 protesters. And one of them is the right of children to grow and develop and have their innocence

00:14:25.040 protected. Hungary is now finally enforcing that right. And for the benefit of every child in this

00:14:31.280 country, we should do the same. Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:15:44.400 the most improved show. If there was an Emmy category, I'd give it to, for most improved show,

00:15:50.040 I'd give it to SNL. I'm not sure if you really want to win that one, but I think they should win it.

00:15:54.480 Now, the bar is very, very low. SNL went through a period of like 15 to 20 years where they did not

00:15:59.900 produce a single funny sketch at all. And now it seems like every episode they come up with one or

00:16:05.880 two ideas that are amusing, sometimes even actually funny. I don't watch the show myself, but I'm just

00:16:11.280 basing this on the clips that I see circulating. So anyway, this SNL skit from this past weekend is

00:16:17.200 getting a lot of attention. Conservatives are saying, some conservatives are saying that it

00:16:21.800 heralds, it's evidence of a vibe shift. And here's just a quick clip of it. Watch.

00:16:31.580 Oh my gosh. Whose baby is that?

00:16:35.260 Excuse me?

00:16:36.180 It's ours.

00:16:37.700 Wait, but how? 0.97

00:16:39.260 Okay, I'm sorry, but gay people can't have a baby? 1.00

00:16:42.380 Why is it when it's us, an interrogation? I don't ask you why you're poor. 0.99

00:16:47.900 I loaned you $10,000.

00:16:51.100 I think we're just wondering who the mother is.

00:16:54.820 Okay, well, between the two of us, I'm more emotional and I like shopping. So me, I think.

00:17:01.580 Now, first of all, the funniest line in the skit didn't even get a laugh. To me, the funniest

00:17:06.600 bit was when he said, I don't ask you why you're poor. And she said, well, I loaned you $10,000.

00:17:11.760 I don't know. I found that. I found that to be pretty funny. No one else laughed in the audience.

00:17:16.440 Anyway, of course, the notable thing here is that the whole joke revolves around the fact that 0.78

00:17:20.560 two gay men have a baby. It's the kind of the absurdity of two gay men having a baby. 1.00

00:17:26.020 And that's the premise for this SNL skit, which is notable. It's hard to imagine.

00:17:33.280 Five years ago, it's just hard to imagine a skit like this existing, especially not on SNL.

00:17:43.360 And so many conservatives are celebrating this, saying that it represents a significant shift

00:17:47.220 in the culture. And then there are other conservatives who are saying that those

00:17:51.400 conservatives are being naive, that this is not any kind of sincere evolution for SNL,

00:17:57.760 that they're just trying to pander to right-wingers, that they see which way the culture is trending.

00:18:05.000 And so they're just trying to sort of jump on the bandwagon for their own purposes. And that's all

00:18:12.380 this is. And so those seem to be the two camps. But I'm kind of in a third camp on this that

00:18:19.320 says that both are right. Of course, this is not any sort of sincere change of heart by the writers

00:18:29.040 of SNL. This was not intended to be a real defense of the traditional family. One skit on SNL does not

00:18:37.680 mean that we won the culture war. Of course, all that is true. Obviously, it's pandering. Of course,

00:18:44.700 it is. And I think this is mostly SNL realizing that the show cannot be woke all the time. If

00:18:51.600 they want people to watch, if they want people to talk about them, then this is the only way to do

00:18:56.560 it. Wokeness is extremely unpopular. It's especially unpopular in comedy. It's just not possible to do

00:19:02.660 comedy that anyone likes, where you're sticking to the rules of wokeness. Nobody's interested in woke

00:19:10.260 comedy. There's just no market for it. So if this is any kind of pivot, it's a cynical,

00:19:18.380 calculated pivot. But at the same time, that's good. I mean, it does say something significant

00:19:27.680 about the culture that SNL has to put material like this out there. If this is pandering to

00:19:33.880 conservatives, well, the fact they feel the need to pander to conservatives is in and of itself

00:19:38.460 significant. SNL is reading the tea leaves. And that's the point. The point is not that the

00:19:46.360 writers of SNL are brave, social conservative warriors, right? Nobody is saying that. Nobody

00:19:52.580 thinks that. The point is the tea leaves. It's what the tea leaves are saying. It is good when

00:20:02.780 conservatives are being pandered to. I don't know if that's a controversial thing to say, but

00:20:07.660 anytime when we see these little examples of corporate media, Hollywood, advertisers,

00:20:14.980 corporations, these little glimmers where they seem to be sort of pandering to conservatives for a

00:20:21.960 change. And whenever you see that, you always have other conservatives say, well, they're just

00:20:25.760 pandering. This doesn't mean anything. Of course they're pandering. But that's good. We should want

00:20:32.260 them to pander to us. Okay. If companies were to stop putting out Pride Month ads and then start

00:20:39.640 running ads again with American flags and bald eagles and all that kind of stuff, that's good.

00:20:45.740 We should want that. Yes, it's pandering. Yes, the people doing it don't really mean it.

00:20:51.580 Yes, it's entirely cynical. Yes, it's self-preservation on their part. Yes, they're doing it so they can make

00:20:55.780 money. Great. Okay, that's good. We should want that. Not because we think the pandering is sincere.

00:21:04.000 Yes, you're not telling anyone anything that they don't already know when you say, well,

00:21:10.060 it's not even sincere. They don't really mean that. Of course they don't mean it.

00:21:12.920 But it's still good because it is an indication of where the cultural power lies. If the media and

00:21:25.880 Hollywood feel the need to pander to us to survive, that is a good thing because it means that we have

00:21:34.980 the power. It means that we're holding the cards. That's what it indicates. Now, I don't think that

00:21:42.560 I don't think we're there yet, by the way. I don't think we actually hold the cards, so to speak.

00:21:49.300 But if this SNL skit or things similar to it that we've seen in the culture over the last few months,

00:21:53.900 especially, if it represents any kind of shift, my point is that it's not a shift in what the people

00:22:00.700 who make SNL actually believe. That's not the shift. It's a shift that they perceive in the

00:22:06.920 culture, and that is a positive shift. So, yes, in that sense, if we start to see

00:22:16.000 more pandering to the right from corporations, then again, that's not anything that we should object to.

00:22:23.920 That is the corporations, as a conservative, recognizing your cultural power and influence

00:22:30.820 and realizing that they need to do that. So, you don't have to take it as a sincere statement

00:22:38.540 on their part, but also to object to it or to say, this doesn't mean anything. Who cares about this?

00:22:45.180 That's just asinine. That's when you start to get into the territory where it seems like you don't 0.98

00:22:51.960 actually want there to be any cultural progress. You actually want to stay on the losing side

00:22:57.380 forever because you prefer that, which I do think that some people on the right, that's kind of where

00:23:03.700 they stand on this. So, yesterday, we discussed the supposedly historic trip into space taken by the

00:23:12.080 all-female crew that consisted of Katy Perry and Gayle King and Jeff Bezos' girlfriend and a few others. 0.80

00:23:19.980 The problem is that the crew was not really a crew. They were passengers taking a ride. They were in

00:23:25.400 space for like three minutes. There was nothing historic or significant about it. And yet, as we

00:23:30.480 talked about, the media celebrated it as this monumentally historic event because they were

00:23:35.320 women who took the trip. Well, Gayle King is now speaking out and she is upset that more people are

00:23:41.720 not celebrating her. Now, the media was celebrating her. There's a lot of celebration, but not enough.

00:23:46.980 And she thinks that those of you who are not falling at her feet to praise her achievement

00:23:52.800 are sexist. Let's listen.

00:23:55.580 I don't like that people are calling it a ride. A ride, you know, you never see a man,

00:24:02.520 a male astronaut, who's going up in space and they said, oh, he took a ride. We actually duplicated

00:24:07.860 the route that Alan Shepard did. That's why it's called, this particular capsule is called the New

00:24:12.820 Shepard. We duplicated that route. No one said he took that ride. It's always referred to as a flight

00:24:20.560 or a journey. So I feel that that's a little disrespectful to what the mission was and what

00:24:25.880 the work that Blue Origin does. We use space technology all the time, whether it's your

00:24:30.920 GPS, whether it's your satellite. That doesn't just happen. Every time a flight goes up, they

00:24:35.680 get some type of information. Two of the astronauts, I still have a hard time calling myself an astronaut,

00:24:40.360 but two of the astronauts on board, one is a rocket scientist, one is an astrophysicist,

00:24:44.860 activist. We're actually doing experiments. But every time one of those goes up, you get

00:24:51.240 some information that can be used for something else. So I wish people would do more due diligence.

00:24:59.400 And then my question is, have you all been to space? Have you been to space? Go to space or go

00:25:04.320 to Blue Origin and see what they do and how they do and then come back and say, this is a terrible 0.99

00:25:08.840 thing. I've had so many girls and women and some guys who are saying, well, I saw what you did.

00:25:17.120 I'm thinking maybe I should reconsider. Maybe I could do this to the young girls in particular.

00:25:21.580 But it's not just the young girls. We're also encouraging. I mean, the boys look at it and see

00:25:25.880 what women and young girls can do. So, you know, I know there are cranky Yankees. I know there's some

00:25:30.900 haters, but I'm not going to let people steal my joy and steal the joy of what we did or what we

00:25:36.380 accomplished that day. I'm just not going to let it in. I'm not. And these are some of my friends

00:25:41.080 that are just throwing shade. Have you all been to space? Have you been to? No, we haven't been

00:25:47.420 to space, Gail, because we don't have a friend who's dating Jeff Bezos. OK, we don't have a friend

00:25:53.420 who's dating the guy who owns the the rocket ship and the company that makes the rocket ship. So,

00:25:59.660 no, we haven't been to space. So I appreciate the suggestion, though.

00:26:04.220 So, you know, she says, well, why don't you try going to space first?

00:26:09.180 I'd love to, but I don't I'm not I'm not part of that that the crew there. So so that's not really

00:26:17.620 an option for the rest of us. The only way to go to space is to have a billion dollars or more.

00:26:23.560 That's one way to do it or to be friends with someone who's got billions of dollars.

00:26:28.300 Those are like the two ways to do it right now. And that I don't fall into either category.

00:26:33.360 Most of us don't. So she's completely delusional. She actually calls herself an astronaut.

00:26:40.040 OK, so this is not I think when we talked about this yesterday.

00:26:44.480 I was kind of joking about how they see themselves as astronauts, but

00:26:48.400 they really do. She actually thinks she's an astronaut now. 1.00

00:26:53.100 Now, Gail, you can call yourself an astronaut in the same sense that my eight year old son

00:26:58.620 can call himself an architect because he builds stuff with Legos.

00:27:04.340 In fact, he has a much more credible claim to the title of architect than you do to astronaut.

00:27:09.980 He is actually building something, at least.

00:27:12.880 You didn't do anything. You experienced something.

00:27:16.680 You experienced something pretty great, which is going to space.

00:27:20.280 You didn't do it, though.

00:27:24.000 Like you did not contribute anything at all to to that journey.

00:27:30.440 So it was an experience for you.

00:27:35.360 Not much different than if you go to a movie and you sit down, you experience the movie.

00:27:41.480 But that doesn't mean you get to take credit for the fact that the movie exists.

00:27:45.200 You didn't make the movie.

00:27:46.280 You are experiencing it, though.

00:27:51.700 And just to be clear, the word astronaut does have a definition.

00:27:55.940 NASA has a definition of an astronaut on their website.

00:27:59.040 And it says this, the term astronaut derives from the Greek words meaning star sailor

00:28:02.360 and refers to all who have been launched as crew members aboard NASA spacecraft

00:28:06.780 bound for orbit and beyond.

00:28:09.880 The term astronaut has been maintained as the title for those selected to join the NASA Corps

00:28:13.240 of astronauts who make star sailing their career profession.

00:28:17.500 Now, even if we take the NASA part out and allow that someone can be an astronaut,

00:28:21.780 even if they don't work for NASA, which they can still,

00:28:24.700 astronaut involves a lot of training that Gayle King and Katy Perry never went through.

00:28:28.560 And it means you were crew.

00:28:30.760 You were part of the crew on a spacecraft.

00:28:33.380 And crew means that you were on the craft and somehow involved in piloting it

00:28:39.280 or maintaining it or working on it in some way.

00:28:44.140 That's what the crew is.

00:28:46.080 When we talk about the flight crew on a commercial flight,

00:28:51.740 we're not talking about the passengers that are sitting there.

00:28:55.540 We're talking about the pilot or even the flight attendants.

00:29:00.160 You were not any of those things.

00:29:01.620 You were a passenger.

00:29:02.360 But most insanely of all, she actually compares herself to Alan Shepard.

00:29:07.760 And in case you didn't know, Alan Shepard is famous because

00:29:10.080 he was the first American to go to space in 1961.

00:29:14.340 He was the second person to go to space.

00:29:18.200 Yuri Gagarin, the Russian cosmonaut, was first.

00:29:21.920 But he actually beat, the Russian beat the American by,

00:29:26.720 I think it was like 20 days, 23 days.

00:29:28.500 So it was very close.

00:29:29.360 But he was the second human and the first American.

00:29:32.940 And he was going into space at a time when the possibility of death was very, very high.

00:29:37.280 This was extremely dangerous.

00:29:39.400 To be first or to be among the first is always dangerous.

00:29:42.740 You're the guinea pig.

00:29:43.900 And that's why we celebrate the pioneers who are the first or among the first to do something.

00:29:50.140 Because for that reason, that you're taking on all of this risk.

00:29:54.300 Like someone has to be the first to go do it.

00:29:57.240 I would love to go to space now.

00:29:58.740 I would take a trip if Jeff Bezos offered it to me, which he never will.

00:30:02.760 I would not have wanted to go in 1962, okay?

00:30:05.780 I would not.

00:30:06.800 If it was offered then, I would have said no thank you.

00:30:09.680 Because the possibility of exploding on the way up was like really, really high.

00:30:16.700 So we don't celebrate the people who do it on a tourist trip 60 years later.

00:30:21.240 We celebrate the people who are the first to do it.

00:30:22.980 And Gail doesn't want us to say that she took a ride, but that is in fact what she did.

00:30:28.500 She took a ride on a remotely piloted craft.

00:30:32.680 Gail King comparing herself to Alan Shepard, it's like making a phone call in the year 2025 and then comparing yourself to Alexander Graham Bell.

00:30:46.640 It's like saying, hey, when I made a phone call, I did exactly the same thing that Alexander Graham Bell did in 1876.

00:30:53.560 Anyone who denies my achievement is sexist.

00:30:57.980 Oh sure, when that man, when that man Alexander Graham Bell, when he makes a phone call, you guys act like it's a big deal.

00:31:04.600 But when I do it, nobody cares.

00:31:07.840 Sexism is alive and well.

00:31:11.300 Oh sure, when Magellan circumnavigated the globe in 1520, everybody thought it was so cool.

00:31:18.140 But when Gail King takes a carnival cruise ship to the Cayman Islands, you know, no one's celebrating her.

00:31:28.080 That's the patriarchy right there.

00:31:29.620 Oh, you know, when Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, everyone was freaking out about it.

00:31:37.240 But then when Gail King walks through the snack aisle for a moon pie, no one, no one, no one, everyone says it's no big deal.

00:31:47.960 You know, that's sexism. 1.00

00:31:50.360 I tell you what, it's a real life handmaid's tale.

00:31:53.520 That's what it is. 0.61

00:31:54.200 And it really is a shame that these women are insisting on being so insufferable about this. 1.00

00:32:01.300 Because like I said yesterday, it is cool to go to space.

00:32:04.600 It is or should be a profound experience.

00:32:08.240 So if they just came back and said, wow, that was amazing.

00:32:11.040 I'm so grateful I was given the chance to do that.

00:32:13.020 I have so much gratitude.

00:32:14.720 Let me tell you what it was like.

00:32:16.760 If they said that, I wouldn't criticize it at all.

00:32:19.080 In fact, I'd be interested to hear their perspective on it because they got to see the world from a perspective that few human beings have ever seen it in person anyway or will ever see it.

00:32:31.980 And that's really cool.

00:32:35.340 It's not an achievement at this point.

00:32:36.820 You didn't do anything, but it's a really cool thing to be able to experience.

00:32:40.080 But they've taken this immense experience and they've turned it into something small and petty because the experience was not bigger than their egos.

00:32:55.940 And it's a shame.

00:32:57.060 This is the tragedy of narcissism.

00:33:00.480 That for a narcissist, that narcissism makes the world a very small place.

00:33:06.140 That nothing that happens in the world, nothing in the world, not even the entire world itself, is bigger than your own ego, than your own need to be admired and to be congratulated.

00:33:21.460 And so she comes back from space.

00:33:23.000 Coming back from space should change your perspective on things.

00:33:27.060 Right?

00:33:28.320 It should be this really humbling experience.

00:33:32.320 And yet these women come back and the first thing they're doing is complaining that people aren't congratulating them enough. 1.00

00:33:41.780 So rather than coming back with more humility, they come back with less somehow.

00:33:47.420 Which is pretty remarkable.

00:33:50.980 Okay.

00:33:53.220 This is, I've had this for a few days, I wanted to mention it.

00:33:55.920 This is not really a headline.

00:33:58.540 But I'm annoyed, so I'm going to talk about it.

00:34:03.920 Jack Dorsey is the former CEO of Twitter. 0.99

00:34:06.840 And he tweeted something a few days ago that I found to be very extremely stupid and bad. 0.98

00:34:11.520 But it garnered a fair amount of support, including from Elon Musk. 0.99

00:34:15.780 And of course, I'm a huge Elon Musk supporter and fan, as you know.

00:34:18.280 I think he's one of the great men of history, as I've said many times.

00:34:21.580 I disagree with him on this issue pretty strongly.

00:34:23.680 He tweeted, rather, Jack Dorsey tweeted, and Elon Musk agreed, tweeted this.

00:34:29.860 Delete all IP law.

00:34:31.540 That was it.

00:34:33.860 That was the whole tweet.

00:34:34.860 Delete all IP law.

00:34:36.540 And of course, that's intellectual property law that he's talking about.

00:34:40.040 And those are the laws that give you ownership rights over your ideas, over your creative output.

00:34:45.680 And he wants to delete it.

00:34:49.900 And Elon agreed, and a bunch of other people agreed, too.

00:34:53.540 And that's why I find this so concerning.

00:34:55.340 Because it is, needless to say, or it should be needless to say, it is a monstrously terrible idea.

00:35:01.800 It would mean that anyone would have the right to steal any of your ideas.

00:35:05.920 You would have no recourse legally, no protection of any kind.

00:35:11.620 Anything that you create, any creative product of yours, can be taken by anyone.

00:35:19.300 And it means that if you, for instance, wrote a book, somebody else could just come and take the book and copy it word for word and put their name on it and sell it under their name.

00:35:29.760 And if they have a bigger name than you and they have a bigger platform, then they can reap the profits and you won't.

00:35:34.960 And there's nothing you can do about it because you don't own the story if you get rid of intellectual property.

00:35:41.480 I mean, you could come up with a story that's entirely yours, and without IP law, you don't own it.

00:35:48.280 Anyone can take it and do anything.

00:35:51.240 A movie studio could come along and make a movie out of it and not give you a dime for it or even give you credit.

00:35:58.840 And you repeat that process with literally anything else, movie scripts, art, anything.

00:36:03.960 Anyone could come along and just take anything you've done and any idea you've had and pilfer it.

00:36:09.220 And the only thing stopping them would be their own sense of propriety, their own ethical sensibilities, which is to say nothing would stop them.

00:36:18.980 The idea of abolishing intellectual property right is really no different than abolishing physical property rights.

00:36:25.320 Saying I have no ownership over my own ideas is like saying I have no ownership over my home.

00:36:31.640 And you could even argue that it's worse in many ways because most of us don't build our own homes from scratch.

00:36:37.860 Most of us don't build our homes at all.

00:36:39.600 But we do build our own ideas, our own stories, our own art.

00:36:46.160 Sure, you're inspired by other things when you're making something creatively, but that's like the lumber that you use to build your own home.

00:36:54.120 You're using pieces of other things, but you're creating your own thing out of it.

00:36:58.080 And so to say that you don't have that ownership, it's just pure communism.

00:37:03.100 This is communism.

00:37:04.360 That's what it is.

00:37:06.480 But here's what makes it relevant, I think.

00:37:11.640 Why is Jack saying this?

00:37:13.940 Is this just trolling?

00:37:15.440 Is this, you know, is this engagement farming by Jack?

00:37:20.640 Is he falling on hard times and he needs to do some engagement farming on X to, you know, get the, for the monetization?

00:37:29.260 Well, no.

00:37:30.500 He's saying this because Jack is a big tech guy.

00:37:33.520 And as a big tech guy, he is, of course, very involved with AI.

00:37:37.380 And this is all about AI.

00:37:39.660 This is why every tech bro will be a communist soon enough.

00:37:44.140 That's why so many of them are starting to sound like communists, strangely enough.

00:37:50.740 It's because they want to be able to build their AI platforms without having to worry about pesky things like intellectual property.

00:37:59.120 And that's because all of these AI platforms are based on theft.

00:38:03.800 I mean, they all just steal with abandon.

00:38:07.540 And because the AI obviously doesn't come up with their own ideas.

00:38:12.520 The AI has no brain.

00:38:15.280 And so all it does is just take from what already exists and spit out an amalgamation based on that.

00:38:21.700 You know, people are very impressed that you can go to chat GPT and ask it to write you a screenplay about, you know, about anything.

00:38:28.160 Just put in, write me a screenplay about this and that and put in a.

00:38:31.360 And then it generates a screenplay in five seconds.

00:38:33.480 And that is really impressive technology.

00:38:35.360 I mean, I can't even, like, wrap my head around what goes into that on the back end, you know, to make that kind of technology possible.

00:38:42.200 But all it's doing is just stealing from other screenplays that have been written and ripping them and just creating this kind of amalgamation of all of them.

00:38:53.960 And so it creates this big problem with intellectual property.

00:38:58.980 Something has to give.

00:39:00.200 Either we're going to start enforcing IP laws against these AI platforms.

00:39:06.620 Either we're going to say that, you know what, actually, you know, AI is a cool technology.

00:39:10.240 But that doesn't mean that we're just going to, doesn't mean that creative, that intellectual property no longer exists.

00:39:15.560 We're not just going to give up on that concept because this technology is super cool.

00:39:19.600 So either we're going to enforce IP laws against these AI platforms or we're going to abandon the entire concept of IP so that AI can take over and destroy human creativity entirely.

00:39:34.420 Which is what would happen.

00:39:37.080 You know, if Jack gets his way, if Jack Dorsey gets his way and we just get rid of IP law, that's the end of human creativity.

00:39:43.620 It's the end of it.

00:39:44.240 But there's, you can't, there's no incentive anymore to create anything.

00:39:50.800 There's no way to profit off of it.

00:39:52.460 So you can't, like, it's over.

00:39:56.540 I mean, you have a great story that you want to write.

00:40:01.580 How, what are you going to do with it?

00:40:04.320 Are you going to send it to a publisher?

00:40:05.900 Well, they could just take the story.

00:40:07.880 That's the problem.

00:40:08.840 You're going to send your great manuscript to a publisher to publish it?

00:40:11.840 Well, without, without IP law, they could just take it.

00:40:16.100 They could say, oh, thanks for this gift.

00:40:18.180 We're going to do whatever we want with it and we will pay you nothing.

00:40:21.220 And there is nothing you can do legally about it.

00:40:25.040 Are you going to self-publish it?

00:40:26.460 Well, again, you're just a, you know, you're just a normal person.

00:40:31.520 You're not famous.

00:40:32.540 You don't have, anyone else could just come along and find this book that sold five copies.

00:40:36.960 And they could say, oh, we're just going to take that.

00:40:40.460 And, and, you know, we've got the platform.

00:40:42.500 We've got the ability to distribute it.

00:40:45.900 We've got the marketing dollars and we're going to take it and we're going to reap the reward.

00:40:50.460 So it just is the, it's the death of human creativity is what it is.

00:40:55.620 And I think that that is a big deal.

00:40:57.880 I think that that's a problem.

00:40:59.160 I think that's something that we need to avoid, like we avoid the plague or even more so.

00:41:05.760 I mean, this is one of the basic things that makes human life worth living.

00:41:12.620 It's one of the things that gives life meaning.

00:41:14.720 It's one of the most basic fundamental things is creativity, art.

00:41:19.240 You know, this is like what separates us from animals.

00:41:23.060 And we cannot sacrifice it or give it up under any circumstance.

00:41:30.080 I mean, you, you, you, we must defend that to the death.

00:41:33.960 It's one of the most important things on this earth to defend.

00:41:39.360 And, but Jack prefers that we get rid of all that because it means that he makes billions of dollars on his AI stuff.

00:41:48.240 That's all this is about.

00:41:49.600 All these AI guys like get the IP laws, kind of the one thing standing in the way, sort of right now.

00:41:56.780 It's a, it's an inconvenience for them.

00:41:59.300 And they're worried about laws that, that protect the IP even more.

00:42:03.020 And that'll be inconvenient to them.

00:42:05.580 And they just want to erase all of that and make a trillion dollars all, you know, so they can each become trillionaires.

00:42:11.340 And they become trillionaires and human creativity is dead as a result.

00:42:15.920 That's the cost the rest of us pay.

00:42:17.940 I don't know.

00:42:19.880 I don't think that's a great deal.

00:42:22.440 I don't think that like I give up, that, that humanity has to give up art.

00:42:26.620 And then Jack Dorsey gets to be a trillionaire.

00:42:28.640 Like I don't, I don't, to me, to me, that's not, I don't find that deal very appealing.

00:42:33.840 I don't think that we quite, it's great for him.

00:42:36.460 I can see why he likes it, but for the rest of us, not so much.

00:42:41.280 Let's get to the comment section.

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00:43:54.360 Anytime you tell someone who claims to have ADHD that it isn't real, they lose their minds.

00:43:58.760 People love defending their mental illnesses. 0.87

00:44:01.220 It's so strange.

00:44:02.120 Yeah, this is a phenomenon that I've been dealing with for many years,

00:44:05.980 and I've obviously been outspoken about fake mental illnesses for a long time.

00:44:10.280 And so I'm consistently running into this.

00:44:11.700 People get very upset when you question whether they really have a mental disorder,

00:44:15.380 which at a surface level doesn't seem to make a lot of sense.

00:44:18.880 Because if you say that ADHD or anxiety or depression are not mental illnesses,

00:44:24.160 you are not saying that the experience isn't real.

00:44:28.120 You aren't saying that the people aren't experiencing the things they say they're experiencing.

00:44:35.320 It's not about denying the experience.

00:44:37.940 It's a debate about categories.

00:44:40.000 It is an academic debate and a philosophical debate, really, about categories.

00:44:47.880 What category do you put these experiences in?

00:44:52.340 And my point is simply that ADHD is a category error.

00:44:57.580 And yes, I think that depression and anxiety are also category errors.

00:45:01.320 I think the DSM is full of category errors, which, again, doesn't mean that those things,

00:45:07.600 if you say, I'm depressed, I'm feeling this way, I'm not denying that.

00:45:12.820 I totally accept that your feelings are completely real and legitimate and even important.

00:45:20.720 What I'm saying is that to put it into the category of mental illness is an error, I think.

00:45:30.280 And we can debate that.

00:45:32.760 I actually think it's an interesting conversation.

00:45:34.320 The fact that people get so emotional about it, and they take it as a personal attack,

00:45:39.860 if you say that, hey, look, I think what you're experiencing is real.

00:45:42.660 I don't think that it qualifies as a mental illness, however.

00:45:46.100 People get so upset by that.

00:45:47.800 And it does seem, as I said, on the surface, it's a little confusing.

00:45:52.660 Because even if I'm wrong, why would that make you angry?

00:45:56.960 And I think the answer is that people cherish their, quote-unquote, mental illnesses, 0.78

00:46:02.500 and they cling desperately to the label because it makes them a victim.

00:46:06.100 It removes any accountability, any agency from them.

00:46:09.660 It means that they can't actually do anything about it or change it without drugs anyway.

00:46:14.140 And a lot of people find comfort in helplessness.

00:46:16.760 They find comfort in being a victim.

00:46:18.100 They find there's this, there is just this sense of relief, and people won't admit it.

00:46:26.240 Most people will not admit this, but we all know it's true,

00:46:29.120 that there is a sense of relief that people feel when they're given a diagnosis.

00:46:36.200 You know, when they're feeling a certain way, when they're experiencing something mentally,

00:46:40.860 when they're struggling internally with something,

00:46:43.420 and they go to a psychiatrist, they go to a psychologist, whatever,

00:46:46.080 and they get a diagnosis, and the medical professional says,

00:46:50.320 oh, here's what that is, and it's an illness, and it's not your fault.

00:46:56.100 I think a lot of people leave that feeling relieved.

00:47:00.720 It just, it's a relief.

00:47:02.080 It's like, okay, well, that's what that is.

00:47:04.560 I don't have to think about it anymore.

00:47:05.920 It's not my fault at all.

00:47:06.940 There's nothing I can do about it.

00:47:08.580 Takes the pressure off of me.

00:47:10.600 Here's a drug.

00:47:11.820 Take the drug.

00:47:13.640 And then there are people that go even farther than that,

00:47:15.380 and they actually take pride in it.

00:47:16.880 They think that the mental illness makes them interesting. 0.96

00:47:18.940 It makes them whatever.

00:47:20.060 It makes them unique.

00:47:22.840 They start describing themselves as neurodivergent and all these things,

00:47:26.000 and they actually take pride in that identity in a really similar way that people,

00:47:30.220 it's almost like it's an LGBT. 0.79

00:47:31.740 They almost, you know, I don't know if we've included N for neurodivergent in the LGBT alphabet soup yet, 1.00

00:47:38.680 but it will end up there because, like, some people embrace it as an identity in that kind of way.

00:47:45.940 So I think that's what you're noticing.

00:47:48.360 And I'll admit that, and maybe this is why people get especially angry at me,

00:47:57.000 because I do have a disconnect here that I just, I can't relate to that desire to be diagnosed.

00:48:06.720 I feel exactly the opposite way.

00:48:09.920 Anyway, if anything, I will get offended if you tell me that I don't have control over something,

00:48:16.460 which has its own problems, I admit.

00:48:19.120 You know, I'm going to be on the opposite end of this extreme,

00:48:22.520 where I want to feel like I have control over everything,

00:48:25.800 and if a doctor comes to me and says, well, you have no control over this or this,

00:48:28.700 I don't want to hear that.

00:48:30.420 I don't want to hear it.

00:48:31.260 Don't tell me that.

00:48:32.460 Okay?

00:48:32.700 If anything, I'd rather you tell me I have more agency than I actually do than less.

00:48:40.980 So that's just the way that I'm wired.

00:48:43.640 And to me, it's, like, intuitive.

00:48:45.160 I don't know.

00:48:47.100 To me, it just seems, as a human being,

00:48:51.060 if you're going to err on one side or the other,

00:48:53.420 it makes sense to err on the side of wanting to feel like you're more in control than you actually are.

00:48:58.740 But this desire to feel like you have no control,

00:49:03.640 like even your mind is not under your control,

00:49:05.980 I cannot relate to that desire.

00:49:08.440 To me, it's a nightmare.

00:49:11.220 And to want that makes no sense to me.

00:49:15.500 But all of that is almost irrelevant,

00:49:17.580 because whether you want it or not,

00:49:19.300 you know, no matter how we're,

00:49:20.920 no matter which reality we would prefer,

00:49:23.640 what matters is what is the actual reality.

00:49:25.780 And I think in actual reality,

00:49:29.620 in particular, ADHD is just a category error.

00:49:34.200 All right, Matt, I'm an adult with ADHD.

00:49:35.960 It's not a scam.

00:49:36.720 Trust me, it's real.

00:49:37.480 I still struggle in my adulthood with ADD.

00:49:40.000 I'm not hyperactive anymore,

00:49:41.220 but have issues to stay focused on things that don't interest me.

00:49:44.600 It's proven that our ADHD brains can't control dopamine properly.

00:49:49.960 Well, as for that last part, that's not true.

00:49:51.580 It's not proven that ADHD is a neurological disorder at all.

00:49:57.240 If you were listening to the monologue yesterday,

00:50:00.200 that's what we talked about yesterday.

00:50:03.760 That is not proven.

00:50:04.960 I'm sorry.

00:50:05.540 I'm sorry.

00:50:06.320 That is not the case.

00:50:08.600 Okay, so if you're someone going around saying,

00:50:10.300 well, it's proven ADHD is a neurological disorder.

00:50:12.560 No, it is not proven.

00:50:15.620 That is not proven.

00:50:17.200 In fact, as we talked about yesterday,

00:50:20.020 some of these scientists who are the reason why you think that have recanted.

00:50:26.120 They have since admitted that, well, you know, maybe that's not true.

00:50:31.880 Okay, but this is the problem.

00:50:34.640 It's like the chemical imbalance theory of depression.

00:50:37.080 That has been debunked.

00:50:38.220 It is not true.

00:50:39.400 That is not the case.

00:50:40.680 There is no evidence that there is any kind of chemical imbalance that leads to depression.

00:50:44.680 But this is what doctors said for a long time.

00:50:47.080 And people just, they refuse to let it go.

00:50:49.440 They refuse to let that go.

00:50:51.920 And I think it's the same thing with ADHD.

00:50:54.080 And as for the rest, look, man, having trouble staying focused,

00:50:58.640 that just makes you a human.

00:51:02.000 Okay, that's called being a human being.

00:51:03.880 That is a normal human experience, especially these days.

00:51:07.580 Everybody struggles to focus.

00:51:09.180 Everyone.

00:51:10.400 We're surrounded by distractions all the time.

00:51:12.600 And you might say that, well, yeah, you know, I struggle more than most people.

00:51:16.020 How do you know that?

00:51:17.500 How could you possibly know that?

00:51:20.800 Like how, you have not been in anyone else's mind.

00:51:23.560 How do you know?

00:51:24.180 Well, yeah, but I struggle much more.

00:51:26.340 How could you possibly know that?

00:51:30.300 You can't.

00:51:31.980 You only know what's going on inside your own brain.

00:51:34.540 And you've come to this determination that it's like worse or it's in a whole different category for you as opposed to other people.

00:51:43.080 That is a total fantasy.

00:51:45.480 You cannot know that.

00:51:47.100 And even if it was true, even if it was true that, you know, you experience, that you are more distractible than the average person, that doesn't make it a disorder.

00:52:01.800 All human traits come with variance.

00:52:04.060 Okay, every human trait that we can think of, there are going to be people who are more that and less that, whatever it is, whether we're talking about, you know, people, some people are more focused, some people are less focused, some people are more optimistic, some people are more pessimistic, some people are more inclined to, you know, being cheerful, some people are more inclined to melancholy.

00:52:25.060 But melancholy, any personality trait, anything that you can think of, it all exists, I mean, to use the phrase everyone likes, it all exists on a spectrum, right?

00:52:34.700 And so you're going to have extremes, you're going to have people that have these traits more than others.

00:52:43.240 What you're basically saying is that, like, for all these traits, there's the normal right down the middle, and anything that's on this side or that side is a disorder.

00:52:52.400 But how can that be true?

00:52:56.240 What you're saying, then, is that the proper order of things is that we all have, what, exactly the same temperament, exactly the same personality?

00:53:04.600 That's the way it should be?

00:53:06.520 And if it's not that way, then it's evidence of this epidemic of mental disorders?

00:53:10.920 I just, I think it doesn't make any sense.

00:53:12.840 Finally, I agree, okay, but the point is that some children are struck by the boredom much more than other children, and that's what we call ADHD.

00:53:23.260 I agree it happens for everybody, but it's a spectrum of intensity.

00:53:26.260 And I totally agree that this disorder is able to happen only because in today's sick world, young boys are confined to stay still in a desk and listen to a middle-aged depressing woman, 0.95

00:53:34.760 unpassionately reciting some math or other things.

00:53:36.840 But that's the world we live in, and by its standards, these boys are indeed disordered because they aren't fit to live in it, like it or not.

00:53:43.760 That legitimizes ADHD and its way of treatments.

00:53:46.680 No, no, no, no, no.

00:53:48.660 I hate everything about your comment. 0.99

00:53:50.980 I hate everything. 0.99

00:53:51.740 I find it grotesque, honestly. 0.95

00:53:54.520 I find it disgusting.

00:53:55.960 You're telling me that society has set itself up a certain way, and anyone who struggles with it is disordered?

00:54:08.720 That is an awful way of looking at things.

00:54:11.880 Because what if society is disordered?

00:54:15.780 What if we have set things up in a way that is disordered?

00:54:18.920 Have you considered that?

00:54:19.680 Have you considered that the school system, the way we approach it, is disordered?

00:54:26.860 That maybe we approach education in a way that's just wrong?

00:54:31.120 Okay, if the school system needs to drug half the kids in order to even function,

00:54:36.260 maybe that's an indication that the school system is broken.

00:54:39.600 Not that the kids' brains are broken, but there's something wrong with the school system.

00:54:45.140 Our children are not disordered.

00:54:46.800 The school system is.

00:54:47.800 And rather than try to fix that or to approach that in a different way,

00:54:56.160 what you're saying is, well, look, man, it's just the way it is.

00:54:59.580 Put the kids on drugs, even if it destroys them, even if it stunts their growth

00:55:03.600 and causes all kinds of health problems down the line.

00:55:06.380 Well, we just got to do it because they got to get with the program.

00:55:08.700 Can't change the program.

00:55:09.900 The program is the program.

00:55:12.000 And anyone who doesn't click with the program, we just have to,

00:55:15.180 even if they're not really mentally ill, we just have to treat them as though they are. 0.67

00:55:19.500 It's basically what you're telling me.

00:55:20.900 And I strenuously object to that approach.

00:55:27.300 Well, a quick shout out to everyone in the live chat right now, dailywire.com and the Daily Wire Plus app.

00:55:32.980 I see you.

00:55:33.520 I appreciate your comments.

00:55:35.020 Thank you for being here.

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00:55:38.220 Join the conversation real time, unfiltered with thousands of people just like you.

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00:55:47.300 Now let's get to our Daily Cancellation.

00:55:55.180 Over the years, I've made my position on the hagiography of so-called indigenous cultures about as clear as I possibly can. 0.98

00:56:01.200 These cultures were barbaric, violent, and altogether vastly inferior to the ones that replaced them. 1.00

00:56:08.480 There's no elevation of these primitive cultures that isn't also a reflection of a deep-seated hatred for this country, 0.95

00:56:14.420 for white people, for civilization in general.

00:56:17.460 Even if we pretend that the various tribes were indeed the first ones to lay claim to this land, which they weren't,

00:56:24.700 it still doesn't change the fact that the world is a much better place today because of men like Christopher Columbus and the Conquistadors.

00:56:32.100 Public school teachers and Democrats will say otherwise, even though there would be no public school or Democrats if these people had their way,

00:56:40.500 which is maybe one mark against Columbus and the Conquistadors.

00:56:44.280 The good news is that today we have one of these opportunities to talk about this again.

00:56:49.740 But before I go any further with the specifics of this story, let's do a little thought experiment.

00:56:53.880 Try to put yourself in the shoes of someone who has to pretend, as a matter of professional survival,

00:56:59.880 that the indigenous tribes were, in reality, enlightened, peaceful, progressive people. 0.72

00:57:08.240 Imagine that you have to revere the Aztecs and the Incas, or else you'll lose your grant funding and your employer will terminate you.

00:57:14.660 Let's say you're an archaeologist or an anthropologist employed by Harvard or something.

00:57:17.940 Now, if we're being honest, it has to be kind of a tough gig, at least in some respects.

00:57:23.240 After all, your entire career is based on a lie, and you have to maintain that lie every single minute of your professional life,

00:57:28.600 or else everything will fall apart.

00:57:30.380 It's a little like being, you know, Milli Vanilli or Beyonce, and you have to act like you can actually sing instead of just lip sync.

00:57:35.980 You're going through life with a permanent case of imposter syndrome.

00:57:38.920 And every moment, the professional defenders of indigenous peoples are going through something similar.

00:57:45.120 They have to maintain a carefully constructed fiction at all costs.

00:57:48.460 And that's not easy, because of course, whenever you're trying to maintain a lie, especially an absurd one,

00:57:53.620 the risks are high that eventually you'll make a mistake and give the game away.

00:57:57.480 And indeed, that's exactly what just happened to an archaeologist named Maria Belen Mendez, 0.60

00:58:02.220 who made the mistake of speaking to CBS News about a recent discovery of ruins in Guatemala.

00:58:06.380 She tried a little too hard to sell the fake narrative that everyone in her profession is expected to sell.

00:58:12.580 And here's how the CBS article begins.

00:58:14.540 Quote, an altar from the culture that honestly I can't pronounce at the pre-Hispanic heart of what became Mexico

00:58:21.700 was discovered in Tikal National Park in Guatemala, the center of Mayan culture.

00:58:27.100 And this is footage of what this discovery looks like.

00:58:30.940 Now, you know, when you look at it, so far there's no problem.

00:58:35.600 The archaeologists have apparently discovered an altar of some kind.

00:58:38.260 You can see it there.

00:58:39.020 Pretty cool.

00:58:39.760 You know, pretty awesome.

00:58:41.040 It's something, some sort of very ancient structure, really interesting.

00:58:45.620 But it looks pretty unassuming, as you can see.

00:58:48.440 Doesn't seem to be any cause for alarm.

00:58:50.780 But then we're treated to this line in the story.

00:58:52.800 Quote, Larina Paez, the archaeologist who led the discovery,

00:58:56.760 said that the altar was believed to have been used for sacrifices, especially of children.

00:59:01.500 Close quote.

00:59:01.920 Now, this is where the story starts to get potentially problematic.

00:59:05.960 Because if you're a true believer in the narrative that indigenous tribes were generally peaceful 1.00

00:59:10.400 and that violence and brutality were introduced to this hemisphere by white Europeans, 0.87

00:59:16.000 then you've got to come up with some explanation for why they systematically murdered children.

00:59:21.480 You have to explain why they found the skeletal remains of small children right next to the altar.

00:59:25.860 Now, normally, activists and academics will deflect from the issue somehow.

00:59:28.720 They'll claim that, well, you know, most tribes didn't engage in child murder or something like that.

00:59:34.040 Even though child sacrifice and cannibalism and human sacrifice in general were really, really common in indigenous cultures,

00:59:40.780 especially in Mesoamerica.

00:59:42.420 But anyway, that's not the approach that archaeologist Maria Belen Mendes took.

00:59:47.440 Quite the contrary.

00:59:48.180 In her conversation with CBS News, Mendes decided to basically go all in on defending child sacrifice.

00:59:54.180 She took the Leroy Jenkins approach, if you will, presumably to the shock and horror of her fellow archaeologists.

01:00:00.220 She kind of said the quiet part out loud.

01:00:02.100 So here's how CBS reports on what she said.

01:00:04.500 Quote, Maria Belen Mendes, an archaeologist who was not involved with the project,

01:00:09.620 said the discovery confirms that there has been an interconnection between both cultures

01:00:13.300 and what their relationships with their gods and celestial bodies was like.

01:00:17.540 And then Mendes added this, which is the money line.

01:00:19.980 Quote, we see how the issue of sacrifice exists in both cultures.

01:00:24.640 It was a practice.

01:00:25.860 It's not that they were violent.

01:00:27.800 It was that they, it was their way of connecting with the celestial bodies.

01:00:32.580 Yes, according to this archaeologist, stabbing a child through the heart and killing him

01:00:37.720 is not in fact an act of violence. 0.73

01:00:40.460 If you think murdering children is violence, that's just your settler, colonial, white supremacist mindset talking.

01:00:46.520 Instead, we're told that, you know, stabbing children through the heart is really just a way for indigenous folks

01:00:51.160 to connect with celestial bodies.

01:00:54.180 Now, we've heard of mostly peaceful riots, as CNN told us about back in 2020.

01:00:59.860 Well, now we have nonviolent child sacrifice, which we can kind of add to that list.

01:01:04.900 So there's nothing to see here, really.

01:01:06.300 This is an actual thought that a professional archaeologist had, and then CBS News printed it.

01:01:11.040 Everybody involved in this publication thought it was a completely reasonable sentiment.

01:01:14.440 After all, who among us hasn't ripped out a human being's heart in order to connect with a celestial body?

01:01:20.040 It's the most natural thing in the world, at least if you're an archaeologist or a CBS journalist, apparently.

01:01:25.720 That said, we all know how this made it to print.

01:01:29.780 I mean, these are the same people who don't believe that it's violence to mutilate a child in the womb.

01:01:34.200 They view abortion as a way to assert their own empowerment.

01:01:37.020 And if that's the standard, then it stands to reason that these people wouldn't object to so-called indigenous tribes killing children for their own superstitious reasons. 0.65

01:01:47.960 Legalize human sacrifice as the official platform of the Democrat Party.

01:01:51.240 That's why, if anything, the altar of child sacrifice in Guatemala will only make these people appreciate the indigenous folks even more.

01:01:57.660 At the same time, we can assume that it wasn't the archaeologist's goal to communicate that to the public.

01:02:04.320 What Maria Mendez was doing was attempting to protect the very fragile fantasy that indigenous cultures were peaceful and enlightened.

01:02:12.380 Self-described experts like Mendez don't want the public to dwell on the fact that so many of these cultures practice the most nightmarish forms of violence mankind has ever seen.

01:02:23.640 Because if people realized how violent these cultures were, then they might come to some unapproved conclusions.

01:02:32.680 We might begin to suspect that it's actually good that these civilizations were conquered and destroyed.

01:02:38.980 And also, by the way, we might start to be more understanding of the European colonizers and settlers and pioneers who came here

01:02:46.480 and had, in some cases, a rather brutal approach to the indigenous tribes themselves.

01:02:53.380 But we might be more understanding of that if we come to understand that this is the kind of thing that these Europeans were witnessing.

01:03:01.020 You know, and if it's 500 years ago and you arrive on the shores of some wilderness and you witness a tribe of people in loincloths cutting a child's heart out, 0.88

01:03:15.200 you know, you might start to assume certain things about those people and it might be hard for you to perceive them as exactly equals in the way that we do today.

01:03:25.340 So, you know, but these are the kinds of things you might start wrestling with and thinking about, and those are all not permissible thoughts.

01:03:32.060 So we are left, as always, with absurd, self-describing rationalizations.

01:03:36.700 This one just happens to be more absurd than most.

01:03:39.740 The truth, which neither CBS News nor these archaeologists want to say out loud, is that this latest discovery in Guatemala is yet more evidence that the conquest of the Americas was a historic act of heroism.

01:03:50.520 It made life as we know it possible.

01:03:53.700 And we should celebrate it at every opportunity, just like we should relentlessly mock the professional frauds who deny reality,

01:04:00.040 even when reality hits them over the head in the form of a literal altar for child sacrifice.

01:04:03.980 And that is why the archaeologists defending human sacrifice, along with CBS News, are today canceled.

01:04:10.960 That'll do it for the show today.

01:04:11.660 Thanks for watching.

01:04:12.120 Thanks for listening.

01:04:12.640 Talk to you tomorrow.

01:04:13.320 Have a great day.

01:04:14.260 Godspeed.

01:04:20.520 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - April 16, 2025

Ep. 1577 - LGBT Activists PANIC After This Huge Move In The Fight To Protect Children

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