The Matt Walsh Show - January 14, 2026


Ep. 1717 - Matt Walsh Reacts To The Trans Athlete SCOTUS Hearing


Episode Stats

Length

54 minutes

Words per Minute

160.21541

Word Count

8,757

Sentence Count

586

Misogynist Sentences

29

Hate Speech Sentences

33


Summary

After years of denying reality as it concerns everything from human biology to Donald Trump, the seams are starting to come loose for the left-wing political movement in this country. It s evident from one news story to another that reality is finally hitting these people in the face, and they re not taking it very well.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 From Amazon MGM Studios comes Melania. Every protocol, every precaution, every move coordinated.
00:00:06.440 This new film takes you inside the 20 days leading up to the 2025 presidential inauguration
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00:00:16.540 witness what it takes to secure her return to one of the world's most powerful roles. Melania
00:00:20.780 only in theaters January 30th. Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the Supreme Court debates the great
00:00:26.140 question of our time. What is a woman? Kataji Brown Jackson humiliates herself as usual and
00:00:30.700 the children's YouTuber Miss Rachel is on a propaganda tour with Mom Donnie. That's just
00:00:35.860 one of the many reasons why you shouldn't let your children watch her slop. We'll talk about all that
00:00:39.720 and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
00:00:56.140 If you know anything about cults, then you know that inevitably their denial of reality
00:01:10.860 catches up with them in spectacular fashion. Heaven's Gate started out innocently enough back
00:01:15.300 in the 1970s. The hippies were convinced that they'd eventually ascend on board an alien UFO
00:01:20.960 and transform into immortal beings with godlike powers. Members eagerly signed up because after
00:01:27.920 all there wasn't a whole lot of downside risk involved. In the worst case scenario, if the
00:01:32.460 prophecy was wrong, your life would continue as normal. Maybe you'd have to leave your family
00:01:37.060 for a bit, but otherwise no big deal. In the best case scenario, you become omnipotent. So it seems
00:01:41.600 like a win-win. Now fast forward a few decades and Heaven's Gate changed the terms of the bargain
00:01:45.580 a little bit. By the 90s, in order to get those godlike powers, you needed to take your own life.
00:01:51.540 So it was a slight revision in the contractual arrangement. But a lot of Heaven's Gate members
00:01:56.740 went along with it anyway. They had bought into the nonsense that they'd been fed. They were in too
00:02:00.640 deep. They had sunk costs. They weren't about to turn back at the last minute as the Haley-Bopp
00:02:06.520 comet approached. So they took the drugs, died, and that was that. The cult of Heaven's Gate was no more.
00:02:12.120 Now at the risk of sounding a note of optimism on this show, we're now seeing a very similar trend
00:02:17.600 play out in the Democrat Party. After years of denying reality as it concerns everything from
00:02:23.160 human biology to DEI to Donald Trump, the seams are starting to come loose for the left-wing
00:02:29.600 political movement in this country. It's evident from one news story to another that reality is
00:02:35.720 finally hitting these people in the face, and they're not taking it very well. So consider,
00:02:40.020 for example, this piece of video footage from the shooting of Renee Good. Most people missed
00:02:44.060 this moment, which isn't surprising because there's so much footage of the shooting online,
00:02:48.080 but Laura Powell noticed a very revealing comment from Good's lesbian friend right after the shooting.
00:02:55.540 listen. She shouts, why did you have real bullets? So she genuinely cannot understand why federal law
00:03:17.020 enforcement officers would load their weapons with actual ammunition. You will not find a clear window
00:03:24.600 into the state of mind of these open borders agitators. They truly believe that they're
00:03:29.640 playing a game. You know, it's all role-playing to them. From the dispatchers we talked about
00:03:34.420 yesterday in the anti-ice signal chats to the legal monitors who are currently running around
00:03:40.040 Minneapolis to document ice and prevent them from abducting, quote-unquote, random brown people.
00:03:45.500 They desperately want to escape their uninteresting and depressing lives and reimagine themselves as like
00:03:52.580 French resistance fighters circa 1942. All of their friends and social media networks and schools and
00:03:59.480 employers have indulged this delusion. So they naturally expected that the federal government
00:04:04.180 would do so as well. They seriously expect that when they drive their cars directly into law enforcement,
00:04:09.780 officers will simply take the hit and get run over in order to keep the fantasy alive. Or if they shoot,
00:04:18.280 they'll shoot, I don't know, super soakers, water guns. Now, if you were a Democrat political
00:04:23.820 strategist and you weren't ideological, you simply wanted your party to win, this would be a major
00:04:28.920 existential concern. We're not talking about one or two lone wolves or bad actors here. We're talking
00:04:34.060 about a critical mass of Democrat voters who are deranged. They support attacking federal law enforcement,
00:04:39.760 assassinating a conservative podcaster, taking shots at the president of the United States,
00:04:44.880 mowing down an insurance executive, most recently gloating over the cancer-stricken body of a
00:04:51.940 cartoonist who dared to say something negative about a demographic that's sacred to them.
00:04:58.300 These are symptoms of a political movement that has lost touch with reality. And now, like all cults,
00:05:03.940 they're losing touch with human decency as well. They're nearing their moment of ultimate
00:05:08.880 self-destruction. And that became even clearer yesterday during oral arguments at the Supreme
00:05:13.140 Court for two cases, Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. BPJ. Now, for background, Hecox refers
00:05:22.540 to a man who wanted to join the women's track and cross country teams at Boise State University in
00:05:28.700 Idaho. And meanwhile, BPJ is a 15-year-old high school student, also a male, who's taking cross-sex
00:05:34.300 hormones and other sterilizing medications who wants to join the girls' sports team at school.
00:05:40.920 Now, both Hecox and BPJ were banned from joining the girls' team because of laws passed by their
00:05:46.000 respective states, which prevent males from competing against females. In a moment, we'll talk in some
00:05:51.580 detail about the legal issues that are involved here, but really, this was the highlight.
00:05:56.400 More than three years after my film, What is a Woman?, the lead attorney for one of the trans-identifying
00:06:01.920 athletes was asked a very basic fundamental question by Justice Alito. He wanted to know
00:06:07.660 what it means to be a man or a woman, a boy or a girl. He wanted the attorney, a very highly educated
00:06:13.300 individual, went to Harvard several times to provide some definition of biological sex so that
00:06:20.420 we can distinguish between men and women. And this is and always will be, of course, the fatal
00:06:24.660 question for trans ideology. It's a question they simply cannot answer. They've had
00:06:28.800 years now to come up with some kind of answer. Years. But they haven't been able to. The entire
00:06:36.800 movement hinges on the notion that a man is someone who says he's a man. A woman is someone who says
00:06:40.380 she's a woman. There's no definition they can offer that isn't circular and therefore meaningless.
00:06:44.940 And that's why the attorney is, you know, in an impossible situation that he's put himself in.
00:06:50.380 And so we tried to punt on the question. Listen. If it does that, then is it not necessary for
00:06:58.240 there to be, for equal protection purposes, if that is challenged under the Equal Protection Clause,
00:07:04.380 an understanding of what it means to be a boy or a girl or a man or a woman?
00:07:09.980 Yes, Your Honor.
00:07:10.460 And what is that definition? For equal protection purposes, what does it mean to be a boy or a girl
00:07:16.940 or a man or a woman?
00:07:18.520 Sorry, I misunderstood your question. I think that the underlying enactment, whatever it was,
00:07:22.020 the policy, the law, we'd have to have an understanding of how the state or the government
00:07:27.060 was understanding that term to figure out whether or not someone was excluded. We do not have a
00:07:31.960 definition for the court.
00:07:33.060 So let's put the transcript up on the screen so it's clear what was said. Quote,
00:07:39.520 what does it mean to be a boy or a girl or a man or woman? And then after some stammering,
00:07:44.020 the response from the Harvard-educated lawyer before the Supreme Court is,
00:07:48.020 we do not have a definition for the court. That's the answer that the left's attorney gave
00:07:53.800 in a case that's supposedly about how trans-identifying individuals are being discriminated
00:07:57.460 against on the basis of their biological sex. Well, they can't define the words they're supposed
00:08:02.580 to even be arguing about. So this is yet another Hindenburg moment for the modern left. It was
00:08:07.760 just over a year ago that the ACLU admitted before the Supreme Court that there's no evidence
00:08:12.840 that butchering and sterilizing children actually prevents suicides. In fact, as you'd expect,
00:08:17.040 there's a lot of evidence to the contrary. And now, when asked point blank to define the concept
00:08:20.760 of biological sex, the attorney for the trans-identifying plaintiff says simply, eh, pass.
00:08:28.220 Now, in a casual debate among friends, this would be embarrassing enough.
00:08:32.580 It's a concession that you've lost. But in an oral argument before the Supreme Court,
00:08:36.760 it's something else entirely. The lawyer is saying that one of the most fundamental concepts in all
00:08:42.140 of human biology, the distinction between sexes, is null and void. The entire concept of biological
00:08:47.120 sex has no meaning. And if that's the case, if we're really supposed to disregard a category
00:08:51.500 that's easily definable and pretend we can't define it at all, then, of course, nothing is real
00:08:56.460 anymore. If chromosomes and human biology suddenly mean nothing at all, then
00:08:59.560 nothing means anything. Then who's to say that ICE isn't the Gestapo, or that Charlie Kirk wasn't a
00:09:05.480 Nazi, or that Scott Adams wasn't a racist who had it coming, or any of the other left's propositions?
00:09:11.320 All of it is, who's to say they're wrong? As long as we're making everything up, there are no
00:09:16.720 boundaries. The delusions can run rampant, and that's exactly what's happening for Democrats at a
00:09:21.360 large scale. Take, for example, this moment that took place outside the Supreme Court. The Daily
00:09:25.580 Wire interviewed a left-wing activist, and it went, you know, kind of how you would expect. Here's how
00:09:30.780 that was.
00:09:32.140 Why are you splitting up sports? Like, I'm pretty sure a woman could play basketball as well as a man if she
00:09:38.500 practiced. I'm pretty sure a woman could play basketball as well as a man if she practiced.
00:09:47.340 That's all it takes. A little more practice. This is the mainstream view of the average leftist in
00:09:54.220 2026. Yesterday, NPR ran a whole segment about studies that supposedly showed that men don't have a
00:10:00.960 biological advantage over women in sports. You have to wonder why these people aren't outside the
00:10:06.120 headquarters of the NBA and NFL right now, demanding that every team signs a female athlete, just like
00:10:12.100 they have female referees now. It's not like the NBA and NFL are right-wing institutions. They'd
00:10:17.340 be receptive to whatever the activists have to say, and it wouldn't be hard to make the change
00:10:22.420 either. You could just incorporate the WNBA into the NBA overnight. How many games do you think
00:10:28.680 they'd win? Maybe the better question is, how many fatalities would there be before the police had
00:10:33.640 to shut down the entire league? Now, in fairness to the left-wing side of the argument, the ACLU made a
00:10:38.860 slightly different case before the Supreme Court. This is a section from the ACLU's brief, which was flagged by
00:10:44.340 Kristen Wagoner at ADF Legal. Quote,
00:10:47.620 The medical understanding of biological sex encompasses several biological attributes,
00:10:51.780 including chromosomes, genes, gonads, hormone levels, internal and external genitalia,
00:10:56.480 and other secondary sex characteristics. Transgender women may possess some of these
00:11:00.700 biological attributes typical of women. The act's definition of biological sex excludes the key
00:11:05.100 criterion circulating testosterone levels that would have allowed certain transgender women
00:11:10.220 to play on women's sports. So, the ACLU is taking issue with Idaho's definition of biological sex,
00:11:16.940 which includes three criteria, reproductive anatomy, genetic makeup, or normal endogenously produced
00:11:22.360 testosterone levels. So, according to ACLU, anatomy and genetics aren't the key criterion.
00:11:29.420 The really important metric, in their view, is the level of testosterone in your system. This is another
00:11:33.620 way of arguing that sex has no real meaning because anyone can change it at any time. All you need to do is
00:11:38.820 take some hormones and that's it. Now, at the moment, it doesn't look like the Supreme Court is going to
00:11:43.620 side with the ACLU in this. The laws banning men from competing against women, laws that never should
00:11:48.540 have been necessary in the first place in a sane society, will probably be upheld. And that means
00:11:53.740 that contrary to what the ACLU is arguing, these bans don't violate the 14th Amendment or Title IX.
00:11:58.600 Alas, there is no constitutional right for men to pummel women in every available sport. Who would have
00:12:03.960 thought? But just to give you an idea of how absurd these arguments have been, at the lower
00:12:08.340 court level, an appeals court in San Francisco ruled that the laws amounted to sex discrimination
00:12:13.340 because, quote, athletes on girls' and women's sports, but not on boys' and men's teams, are subject
00:12:18.920 to invasive sex verification procedures to implement the law. In other words, the schools were checking
00:12:25.220 to make sure that no males were trying to sneak into the girls' team, but they weren't checking to
00:12:29.540 ensure that females didn't try to sneak onto the men's team. And in the eyes of a federal appeals court
00:12:35.360 in San Francisco, that amounted to unconstitutional sex discrimination. But really, it's common
00:12:38.600 sense. I mean, obviously, you don't have to check to see if girls are sneaking their way
00:12:42.300 onto the boys' team because the girls would have no incentive to do that. They would get
00:12:47.220 absolutely demolished if they tried, and no team would want to pick them up. So even if you
00:12:52.820 pretend that the female athlete could somehow pass as a male, which has never happened in human
00:12:57.420 history, the fact that they'd be completely smoked on the field would be a pretty big clue.
00:13:02.920 Now, separately, this is a line of argument from the left and the ACLU that if a particular
00:13:08.740 male trans-identifying athlete can demonstrate that he specifically has no biological advantage
00:13:14.200 over women, then he should be able to play with women, even though he's a male. So in other words,
00:13:19.960 if a boy has been chemically castrated from a young age and destroyed his muscles and bone
00:13:24.160 growth to the point that he can prove he's as weak as the average female athlete, then he should
00:13:29.780 be allowed onto the girls' team. That's called an as-applied challenge to the Idaho law. This is
00:13:35.360 how far the movement has sunk, by the way. You know, they're trying to argue in court that they
00:13:41.420 should be considered females if they do enough irreversible damage to their bodies. According
00:13:45.220 to this argument, a female is nothing but a severely diminished male. And that brings us to this clip of
00:13:53.700 Ketanji Brown-Jackson, where she brings up as-applied challenges, and she does it as only Ketanji Brown-Jackson
00:14:01.200 can. See if you can decipher whatever this is.
00:14:06.420 To the extent that you have an individual who says what is happening in this law is that it is
00:14:15.960 treating someone who is transgender, but who does not have, because of the medical interventions and
00:14:24.520 the things that have been done, who does not have the same threat to physical competition and safety and
00:14:35.120 all of the reasons that the state puts forward, that's actually a different class, says this
00:14:41.920 individual. So you're not treating the class the same, and you're not... how do you respond to that?
00:14:47.580 In other words, the as-applied challenge essentially redefines the class, or one could think of it
00:14:52.560 as that. And so what's wrong with that, number one, and how do you square that with our holdings in
00:15:00.520 Kaban, which Lair later described in this way? In other words, Lair suggested that Kaban was
00:15:08.740 establishing that as-applied challenges of this nature do exist.
00:15:13.820 Certainly the... I'll take the second question first.
00:15:18.220 Yes.
00:15:19.920 Kaban says nothing about as-applied. I know that Lair says later this was an as-applied case,
00:15:25.320 but simply reading Kaban, it does not say that.
00:15:27.420 So just going to the transcript here, quote,
00:15:33.340 is treating someone transgender, but does not have, because of the medical interventions and
00:15:37.600 the things that have been done, who does not have the same threat to physical competition and safety
00:15:42.980 and all the reasons the state puts forward, it's actually a different class, says this individual.
00:15:47.640 So you're not treating the class the same. How do you respond to that?
00:15:53.220 The lawyer doesn't really respond to it because he has no idea what she's talking about.
00:15:57.420 That's what he should have said. He should have said, uh, I, I don't respond. I don't,
00:16:02.440 I have no clue what you're saying. Total gibberish.
00:16:06.460 Ketanja Brown-Jackson is a perfect illustration of the black woman privilege we've discussed on the show this week.
00:16:12.240 There's really no group in the country more privileged now than black women,
00:16:16.340 because the most mediocre among them, black women who can barely read or speak,
00:16:20.140 like Ketanja Brown-Jackson, are elevated to the most prestigious positions solely because they are black women.
00:16:27.420 Ketanja Brown-Jackson is not qualified to be like a high school principal, let alone a Supreme Court justice.
00:16:32.320 And yet here she is.
00:16:33.780 And for what it's worth, this wasn't the only word salad from Jackson during yesterday's argument.
00:16:37.800 Here's another moment where she stumbled a bit as she tried to define what a woman is.
00:16:43.580 You have the overarching classification, you know, everybody has to be, um, uh, uh, play on the team that is the same as their sex at birth.
00:16:57.020 Um, but then you have a gender identity definition that is operating within that, meaning, a distinction,
00:17:04.600 meaning that, um, for, uh, cisgender girls,
00:17:09.420 they can play consistent with their gender identity.
00:17:12.460 For transgender girls, they can't.
00:17:15.200 So I think that, okay, you're, as to the part about your ability to pass over from boy to girl,
00:17:22.580 where you can go from one way but not the other,
00:17:24.660 I want to be clear that BPJ is not challenging that specific classification.
00:17:28.900 I think that's important to start with.
00:17:30.560 But I think, if anything, that's useful evidence as to the lack of a transgender-based discrimination,
00:17:35.620 because if the legislature were just sort of unsettled by the notion of transgender athletes,
00:17:40.920 I think the answer would have been to then bar them from passing over me when you can see that with their gender.
00:17:45.700 I appreciate that.
00:17:46.340 I guess I was getting at the, um, what I understood the Chief Justice to be trying to discuss,
00:17:52.600 which was this notion that this is really just about the definition of, um, who we,
00:18:00.260 we accept that you can accept, separate boys and girls,
00:18:03.140 and we are now looking at the definition of a girl,
00:18:06.000 and we're saying only people who were, um, girl assigned at birth qualify.
00:18:12.140 Now, putting aside the nonsense at the beginning of that clip,
00:18:14.760 which no one in the court could possibly comprehend,
00:18:16.960 she's outraged that we're limiting our definition of girls to girls who were assigned female at birth.
00:18:23.080 And first of all, of course, anyone using the phrase sex assigned at birth
00:18:25.900 is someone who, as we know, should never be taken seriously for any reason,
00:18:30.120 because for the millionth time, doctors don't assign your sex any more than they assign your height or your weight.
00:18:39.060 They observe it, they record it, they don't give it to you.
00:18:44.140 It can't be overemphasized enough that just 15 years ago,
00:18:46.560 no one on the planet could have been confused about this.
00:18:48.520 So these are all things that were invented yesterday for all practical purposes,
00:18:53.520 and now we have Supreme Court justices parroting the lingo
00:18:56.520 as if it's all completely logical and well-settled science,
00:18:59.080 even though it makes no logical sense.
00:19:01.060 And some of the conservative justices did too, by the way.
00:19:04.060 They also were using this lingo.
00:19:05.940 Amy Coney Barrett, the supposedly conservative female justice on the bench,
00:19:10.000 kept referring to, quote, trans boys and, quote, trans girls.
00:19:13.340 Now, if you're not in the throes of the reality distortion field of the left,
00:19:18.280 then you immediately notice how these people stammer on nonsensically
00:19:21.440 whenever they're talking about basic concepts.
00:19:23.180 You realize right away that they're full of it.
00:19:25.760 At the same time, they really think that they're onto something.
00:19:28.020 They think they're winning the argument.
00:19:30.000 But they're not winning the argument.
00:19:31.060 With every high-profile meltdown like this, from Minnesota to Washington,
00:19:34.520 that becomes obvious to more and more people.
00:19:36.860 Yesterday, the Supreme Court, the Daily Wire's team,
00:19:38.340 noticed that the pro-reality side far outnumbered the trans activists.
00:19:42.260 Although true-to-form, the trans activists were much more obnoxious.
00:19:46.100 Watch.
00:20:02.860 So, you have to keep images like this in mind,
00:20:05.860 especially as we head into a very important election season.
00:20:08.740 Cults don't last forever.
00:20:10.000 Eventually, they burn themselves out.
00:20:11.260 Reality hits hard.
00:20:13.020 And then the cultists, the ones who are still alive and functional anyway,
00:20:16.320 will try to resume their normal lives.
00:20:18.040 They'll forget all about how they pretended they were members of the French resistance
00:20:21.360 in downtown Minneapolis and how men can transform instantly into women
00:20:25.660 and how it's totally normal to drive your car to a federal law enforcement officer.
00:20:30.160 They'll try to back away from all that.
00:20:31.960 But keep in mind, it was just a decade ago that CNN, of all places,
00:20:36.980 was running puff pieces for ICE.
00:20:38.660 They were bragging about getting exclusive access to immigration rates.
00:20:43.480 This is a clip that the account called Maze just unearthed.
00:20:47.760 And it's pretty incredible.
00:20:50.100 Watch.
00:20:50.460 Just before the sun rises in the Windy City,
00:20:59.560 immigration and customs enforcement agents fan out across Chicago
00:21:03.620 to arrest criminals in the U.S. illegally.
00:21:06.640 TAC-1, TAC-2, TAC-3.
00:21:08.180 CNN was granted exclusive access to witness some of those raids.
00:21:12.600 So we got here and there was a lot of action almost immediately.
00:21:19.480 We came in, saw the individual, we had eyes on our target.
00:21:22.160 You know, he was able to come out of the business for us.
00:21:24.500 We were to apprehend him without incident.
00:21:26.440 At the same time, we also brought out his brother,
00:21:28.880 who also is believed to be illegal in the United States.
00:21:31.900 We were able to run him on our portable fingerprint scanner.
00:21:34.940 He did have a hit with DHS, so he's been previously encountered,
00:21:37.880 I believe, by the Border Patrol.
00:21:39.060 So we're going to take him to the office and verify what criminal history he has,
00:21:42.480 and we'll go from there with him.
00:21:43.700 So that was early 2016.
00:21:45.320 At the end of the Obama administration,
00:21:46.800 the liberals at CNN were showing off the cool hardware
00:21:49.420 that ICE uses on their immigration raids.
00:21:52.760 So it's a perfect illustration of how fake and ephemeral all of this outrage is
00:21:56.800 that we're seeing right now.
00:21:58.320 Leftists know that ICE isn't suddenly targeting brown people
00:22:01.700 because of the color of their skin or kidnapping anyone.
00:22:05.040 The narrative is an obvious fabrication.
00:22:07.100 It's inauthentic.
00:22:07.680 And for that reason, it's not sustainable.
00:22:10.060 Nor is it productive.
00:22:11.800 Just last night, ABC News reported that,
00:22:13.480 quote, for the first time in at least half a century,
00:22:15.460 the U.S. experienced negative net migration in 2025.
00:22:19.160 And they cite a study from Brookings, which states that,
00:22:21.900 quote, we estimate net flows of negative 295,000 to negative 10,000 for the year.
00:22:27.680 Continued negative net migration for 2026 is also likely.
00:22:32.320 So for all the wailing and ice watching and domestic terrorism
00:22:35.880 these people are engaging in,
00:22:37.060 they are failing.
00:22:39.140 Meanwhile, as impotent leftists scream into the void,
00:22:42.100 millions of people, the majority of Americans,
00:22:44.180 are thrilled by what they're seeing.
00:22:46.180 And with every viral meltdown from a leftist agitator
00:22:49.680 and every word salad from the DEI justices on the Supreme Court,
00:22:55.120 Team Sanity is making the comeback that we've all been waiting for
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00:25:07.740 All right, we're going to have probably significantly abbreviated headlines today,
00:25:13.400 mainly because I'm having trouble speaking,
00:25:15.260 having a bit of a Ketanji Brown-Jackson situation myself.
00:25:18.240 Not because I have an IQ of 83, but because my voice is giving out.
00:25:22.140 My annual laryngitis episode has cropped up.
00:25:25.660 For the record, my IQ is at least like easily five points higher than that.
00:25:31.640 So let's just hit a couple things quickly.
00:25:34.500 Here's an easy one, but can't let it go.
00:25:38.920 Just can't.
00:25:39.260 Pramila Jayapal, congresswoman from, where is she from?
00:25:44.040 Washington State, I think?
00:25:45.220 Yeah, from Washington.
00:25:48.260 Very upset by everything happening right now with ICE,
00:25:51.440 and here's what she has to say about it.
00:25:53.080 The majority of Americans across the country, regardless of political party,
00:25:59.440 know that immigrants from all over the world, Somalia, India, wherever they're from,
00:26:04.500 Latin America, Africa, that immigrants have built this country
00:26:08.660 and make this country what it is today.
00:26:11.200 Now, first of all, I think we can all agree, as you watch that video,
00:26:18.120 we can all agree that as much as we might despise her political views,
00:26:21.840 Pramila Jayapal is a very attractive woman.
00:26:25.380 This is a specimen of great beauty, you know.
00:26:29.620 I think we can all, I hope we would.
00:26:31.400 We should be able to agree.
00:26:33.060 I have seen some really mean comments that I won't repeat.
00:26:37.360 But there are people leaving comments about this video,
00:26:41.900 any other video about her.
00:26:44.140 And I'm not going to repeat it, I'm not going to condone it.
00:26:47.680 Yeah, I've seen people saying things like,
00:26:49.240 well, she looks like she lives in a bell tower,
00:26:51.100 it's like a Quasimodo type of thing, Quasimodo vibe.
00:26:54.340 I'm not going to repeat that, I'm not going to say that,
00:26:56.160 I'm not going to repeat that that's what they're saying.
00:26:57.680 I don't agree with that, I think it's really wrong and mean.
00:27:01.760 And I'm not going to stoop to the level of insulting someone's looks.
00:27:07.840 So, let's put that to the side.
00:27:11.400 The claim that she's making, though, I will say,
00:27:13.900 and we've heard this many times, of course,
00:27:16.180 but it bears repeating that it's extremely insane.
00:27:20.800 And it's easy to lose sight of just how crazy it is.
00:27:25.200 But the reality for most of American history,
00:27:27.500 up until the mid-20th century,
00:27:30.600 is that there would have been effectively,
00:27:33.120 like, effectively zero immigrants in this country
00:27:36.360 from any of the places that she just listed.
00:27:39.540 So, she listed Somalia, India, Latin America, and Africa.
00:27:43.620 And, of course, Somalia is in Africa,
00:27:44.920 so she kind of listed twice.
00:27:46.720 But in reality,
00:27:51.200 there were probably fewer than a million total
00:27:57.200 from all of those regions combined
00:27:59.260 in the country up until 1965.
00:28:03.560 So, which is effectively zero.
00:28:07.680 Out of those groups,
00:28:08.960 there would have been the most from probably Latin America.
00:28:11.840 We probably had a few hundred thousand
00:28:13.240 from Latin America in this country prior to 1965.
00:28:18.480 Somalia, like none.
00:28:22.260 I mean, there's just nobody from Somalia.
00:28:25.400 And as we've covered on the show,
00:28:28.200 ad nauseum,
00:28:30.860 Somalian immigration is a very new thing.
00:28:36.040 Somalians didn't start coming here until, like, the 1990s.
00:28:40.660 Indians, again, basically none.
00:28:43.140 Very few.
00:28:43.840 A few thousand, maybe, until 1965.
00:28:46.000 Africa, in general,
00:28:48.200 almost none.
00:28:48.940 And the law has changed in 1965,
00:28:52.660 opening up immigration from those places.
00:28:54.600 So, mathematically, historically,
00:28:56.480 it's impossible to argue with any credibility
00:28:59.800 that people from these regions built the country.
00:29:02.820 Now, that's not to say that
00:29:03.760 none of them have ever contributed meaningfully to the country
00:29:07.700 since arriving here.
00:29:11.000 No one is saying that.
00:29:13.400 Now, well, I am saying that about Somalia, actually.
00:29:16.060 I will go so far as to say that
00:29:17.840 not only have Somalians not built the country,
00:29:21.220 but they have not even contributed meaningfully to it
00:29:24.300 at all, ever.
00:29:28.960 But it's not necessarily true of every single person
00:29:31.440 in all of those other groups.
00:29:33.820 Building the country, though,
00:29:36.440 is a different claim entirely.
00:29:40.860 Building the country,
00:29:42.100 that is something that was done almost exclusively
00:29:44.640 by people of European descent.
00:29:50.280 And that's just a matter of history.
00:29:51.880 That's just a historical fact.
00:29:54.280 And there's no way around it.
00:29:57.840 You know,
00:29:58.920 and we've been through this before.
00:30:00.540 But rather than dwell on that,
00:30:02.800 there's another point I want to make about this.
00:30:06.100 When you hear this argument,
00:30:07.580 we hear it all the time,
00:30:10.460 oh, these people,
00:30:11.680 they helped build the country.
00:30:12.500 Well, you can't have it both ways.
00:30:15.680 Like, this is a trying to have your cake
00:30:17.400 and eat it too sort of situation,
00:30:18.860 which is what the left tries to do on every issue,
00:30:21.820 but in particular on this one.
00:30:25.380 So you notice what they're doing.
00:30:27.840 By claiming that Somalians built the country,
00:30:31.700 people from Africa built the country,
00:30:34.020 they're making a kind of blood and soil argument.
00:30:38.820 That's what she's appealing to.
00:30:42.200 She's actually appealing to this kind of
00:30:44.340 blood and soil nationalist idea.
00:30:49.640 They're arguing that Somalians have a right to be here
00:30:52.300 because historically, ancestrally,
00:30:55.600 they worked and bled and sacrificed for this country.
00:30:59.900 There's no reason to bring it up.
00:31:01.460 Leaving aside the fact that it's not true,
00:31:03.500 even if it were true.
00:31:05.020 Well, what's the point of bringing that up?
00:31:07.720 The point of bringing it up is to say,
00:31:10.660 well, they have historical, ancestral ties to the land.
00:31:17.660 That's what's being claimed.
00:31:19.660 Again, not true at all, obviously,
00:31:23.080 but that's the kind of argument they're making.
00:31:25.440 So you would think,
00:31:26.720 if you didn't know any better,
00:31:29.560 you would think,
00:31:31.020 and you heard that argument from Pramila Jayapal,
00:31:33.360 and you saw her say that,
00:31:36.280 and you thought,
00:31:37.160 my God, what a beautiful woman,
00:31:39.320 and then you hear that argument,
00:31:40.740 and you would think,
00:31:41.420 well, this is progress in a way
00:31:43.960 because you would think,
00:31:46.200 well, on the bright side,
00:31:47.620 at least they're admitting,
00:31:48.920 like what she's saying is totally false and ridiculous,
00:31:51.960 but at least she's admitting
00:31:54.040 that your ancestral ties to the land do matter,
00:31:59.320 that it's something that actually matters.
00:32:01.260 And if they admit that,
00:32:04.940 you might think as a naive person,
00:32:07.380 well, then it's just a matter of proving
00:32:09.360 that actually Somalians have no ancestral ties to the country.
00:32:13.700 Okay?
00:32:14.340 It's good that now we all are acknowledging,
00:32:16.580 apparently,
00:32:17.160 that your ancestral historical ties to the land matter.
00:32:21.080 Now that we're all on the same page,
00:32:26.340 let's take a look and see
00:32:28.120 who actually has those kinds of ties
00:32:30.620 and who doesn't.
00:32:33.520 But the problem, of course,
00:32:36.600 is that they will immediately switch streams
00:32:40.100 and in the next breath claim
00:32:41.420 that it's horribly racist
00:32:42.320 to make that kind of argument anyway.
00:32:44.300 So they'll say,
00:32:45.160 the Somalians helped build this country.
00:32:47.540 Hey, the Somalians are deeply rooted in America.
00:32:52.600 And then you say,
00:32:53.520 like, what are you talking about?
00:32:54.340 They got here in the 90s.
00:32:57.960 Okay?
00:32:59.400 They got here in the 90s.
00:33:01.540 How did they help?
00:33:02.240 What, they built the country in the 1990s?
00:33:08.160 So they came and they were pioneers
00:33:10.920 building the country
00:33:12.720 at a time when, like,
00:33:14.320 Nickelodeon existed.
00:33:15.480 And you respond that way
00:33:19.020 and then they immediately switch and say,
00:33:20.320 oh, well, it doesn't matter anyway.
00:33:23.380 What?
00:33:23.900 This is blood and soil.
00:33:25.420 This is white nationalism.
00:33:28.180 Yeah, but it's what you just said.
00:33:29.440 It's like, this is the argument you were making.
00:33:31.020 I'm just telling you you're wrong about it.
00:33:32.820 It's racist.
00:33:34.340 So this is the game they play.
00:33:35.480 It's like trying to wrestle a giant slug, you know?
00:33:40.700 You can't,
00:33:41.420 that's the thing about the left.
00:33:42.680 Their arguments are so bad and so baseless
00:33:45.980 and so ungrounded,
00:33:48.860 like, they're not grounded in anything,
00:33:50.660 that it's just,
00:33:51.880 it's like trying to wrestle a giant slimy slug.
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00:33:54.940 you can't get a hold on anything.
00:33:56.660 The minute you get a hold on it,
00:33:57.680 they slither out,
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00:35:34.640 Miss Rachel is the YouTuber
00:35:36.500 who makes videos for preschoolers.
00:35:39.340 And we've talked about,
00:35:41.580 I think we've talked about her a little bit in the past.
00:35:44.140 And now she's out with Mom Donnie
00:35:45.820 doing a propaganda tour with him.
00:35:48.260 So she's,
00:35:48.820 in the past,
00:35:51.120 and she's done,
00:35:51.720 she's done this before.
00:35:52.240 She's done the LGBT thing.
00:35:53.600 She's done the gay pride thing.
00:35:54.720 She's done the pronoun thing.
00:35:56.240 And I think that's when we've talked about her in the past.
00:35:59.120 And that's reason enough to not,
00:36:00.800 not put her content on for your children.
00:36:03.560 You know,
00:36:03.760 you should not allow your children to watch it
00:36:05.280 for that reason alone.
00:36:06.960 And here she is with Mom Donnie.
00:36:09.240 You'll see the tweet there.
00:36:11.220 Mom Donnie says,
00:36:11.900 Yeah, I'm sure the four-year-olds
00:36:26.600 are very interested in that conversation.
00:36:28.760 You sat down with four-year-olds
00:36:30.120 to talk about universal child care?
00:36:34.780 Which, by the way,
00:36:35.760 is really bad for four-year-olds.
00:36:37.280 It's really bad for kids
00:36:38.380 because that's just,
00:36:39.500 that is the state's way,
00:36:40.660 the government's way.
00:36:42.520 In this case,
00:36:43.100 the city's way
00:36:43.940 of getting more kids into child care
00:36:47.980 and away from their parents.
00:36:49.820 So,
00:36:50.560 that's really what he's saying.
00:36:52.660 Good news, kids.
00:36:54.120 We're going to make sure
00:36:54.880 you spend even less time
00:36:56.360 around your parents.
00:37:00.080 You're going to spend even more time
00:37:01.680 with government workers.
00:37:04.660 Government workers are the best.
00:37:08.320 Ask your parents
00:37:09.220 to bring you to the DMV sometime.
00:37:10.720 And you'll see a whole bunch
00:37:12.220 of government workers.
00:37:13.180 They're the nicest people.
00:37:15.000 Don't you want to spend
00:37:16.060 every day all day with them?
00:37:17.900 Well, with universal child care,
00:37:19.620 you can.
00:37:22.300 So, I guess that was the message.
00:37:23.480 But we don't even need to get into that.
00:37:28.000 Enough people have covered that base
00:37:29.600 about Miss Rachel.
00:37:31.520 And so, this is the debate.
00:37:33.160 Like, is she a political propagandist?
00:37:36.420 Because she's very popular
00:37:37.600 with kids.
00:37:39.740 And she's got, like, billions of views.
00:37:43.200 I mean, so,
00:37:45.920 and should you be exposing your kid to this
00:37:47.740 given that she's a political propagandist?
00:37:49.820 And the answer is,
00:37:50.880 no, you should not be exposing your kids
00:37:52.760 to this political propagandist.
00:37:55.020 But,
00:37:56.080 put that to the side.
00:37:57.620 I want to make a more basic point
00:37:59.180 about this Miss Rachel person
00:38:01.500 and anyone like her.
00:38:03.640 And I've said that
00:38:05.200 I find almost all
00:38:07.320 of these children's YouTubers
00:38:08.900 to be
00:38:09.600 very creepy.
00:38:12.360 Like, these are creepy, weird people.
00:38:15.700 And as a parent,
00:38:16.940 you have to have
00:38:18.020 a radar for that kind of thing.
00:38:20.920 It's very important
00:38:21.820 to have a radar for that.
00:38:25.020 And if your radar's not going off
00:38:26.920 when you turn on
00:38:28.800 and you see these children's YouTubers,
00:38:30.620 if you're not immediately like,
00:38:31.640 who is this person?
00:38:33.640 Uh, then, then, then I don't know.
00:38:37.080 I mean, you're oblivious.
00:38:38.860 So, even, even before you get into the content
00:38:40.900 or the political propaganda,
00:38:42.660 even before any of that,
00:38:46.240 like, I see it,
00:38:47.880 and, and I, I just,
00:38:48.960 I don't like the vibes, okay?
00:38:51.420 And sometimes, yeah,
00:38:52.540 that, as a parent especially,
00:38:54.240 sometimes that matters.
00:38:56.060 Vibe-based arguments
00:38:57.300 are often not valid,
00:38:59.720 especially in political discussions.
00:39:01.440 But as a parent,
00:39:02.440 very often,
00:39:05.220 you know, you,
00:39:07.260 the vibe should matter to you.
00:39:08.620 You look at something,
00:39:09.360 you see someone,
00:39:10.040 and you're like,
00:39:10.360 I don't like the vibes here.
00:39:11.280 This is weird.
00:39:12.580 This person's not going to be around my kids.
00:39:15.840 That's it.
00:39:16.360 It's just weird.
00:39:18.740 And, uh,
00:39:19.280 and I'm definitely not going to sit my kids down
00:39:21.020 to watch this YouTuber
00:39:23.600 because I just don't like the vibes.
00:39:26.400 You know,
00:39:27.720 and, and these are people
00:39:28.820 who have figured out
00:39:31.320 that children's content,
00:39:32.980 making content for three-year-olds,
00:39:34.940 right?
00:39:35.380 So these are adults
00:39:36.380 that are making content
00:39:37.260 for like three- and four-year-olds,
00:39:38.960 and they figured out
00:39:40.420 that it's extremely profitable to do it.
00:39:42.140 So,
00:39:42.440 they just start churning it out.
00:39:45.240 Okay,
00:39:45.500 these are slop merchants
00:39:46.760 for,
00:39:47.680 for toddlers.
00:39:49.280 We've got slop merchants
00:39:50.720 who are just churning out slop
00:39:52.820 all over the place
00:39:54.500 for all different age brackets,
00:39:55.640 and these are people
00:39:56.800 who churn out the slop
00:39:57.920 for four-year-olds.
00:40:00.440 And it boggles my mind
00:40:02.100 that there are parents
00:40:02.900 who are like,
00:40:03.380 yep,
00:40:04.820 this is what my four-year-old needs
00:40:06.640 is some slop.
00:40:08.180 Bring on the slop.
00:40:09.680 Here you go.
00:40:10.160 Sit down, junior.
00:40:11.960 It's slop time.
00:40:14.700 Go ahead.
00:40:15.020 Just,
00:40:15.160 just spend three hours
00:40:16.520 watching this like
00:40:17.720 mind-numbing,
00:40:19.540 weird
00:40:21.160 dreck.
00:40:23.200 And that's what parents do.
00:40:25.220 And I don't get it.
00:40:27.520 And the other thing
00:40:28.380 I can't stand
00:40:29.120 are these,
00:40:30.740 especially,
00:40:32.900 and this is what,
00:40:33.900 this is,
00:40:34.300 this is where it gets,
00:40:36.320 this is where the weirdness
00:40:37.280 kicks in.
00:40:38.060 Because you have these like
00:40:39.280 children's content creators
00:40:40.800 or whatever we call them
00:40:41.580 who act and dress
00:40:44.360 like children themselves.
00:40:48.300 This has become the thing now,
00:40:49.840 and it's not,
00:40:50.260 it's not that new
00:40:51.160 over the last
00:40:52.880 like couple of decades
00:40:53.980 really,
00:40:55.380 where you,
00:40:57.280 in many cases,
00:40:58.320 you have people that make
00:40:59.200 entertainment,
00:41:00.140 make content for kids,
00:41:01.180 and they speak
00:41:02.940 and act like kids
00:41:04.320 themselves,
00:41:04.980 even though they're adults
00:41:06.060 in their 40s and 50s.
00:41:07.220 You see Miss Rachel
00:41:11.760 and, you know,
00:41:12.600 she's got the overalls
00:41:13.940 and the sneakers
00:41:15.860 and the headband.
00:41:16.720 It's like,
00:41:17.580 what adult?
00:41:18.480 You're in your 40s.
00:41:19.940 Why are you dressed like that?
00:41:22.680 And,
00:41:23.100 and,
00:41:23.900 and she speaks
00:41:25.260 and acts
00:41:25.600 like a kindergartner.
00:41:26.740 And that's what almost
00:41:27.560 all of these children's
00:41:28.700 YouTuber types do.
00:41:30.040 And it's so common,
00:41:32.520 I think it's one of the reasons
00:41:33.180 maybe a parent's radar
00:41:34.860 doesn't go off.
00:41:35.640 Maybe you don't see
00:41:36.200 the red flag
00:41:36.900 because you see that
00:41:38.220 and you're like,
00:41:38.540 yeah,
00:41:38.700 this is what kids' content is.
00:41:39.760 This is what they do.
00:41:41.560 No,
00:41:42.080 it's,
00:41:42.760 it's not normal.
00:41:43.520 It's weird.
00:41:44.760 Like,
00:41:45.100 would you talk to your kid
00:41:45.900 that way all the time?
00:41:48.960 Do you dress like that?
00:41:50.420 With,
00:41:50.880 like,
00:41:51.040 if you want to relate
00:41:51.600 to your kid,
00:41:52.100 do you dress like a toddler
00:41:53.500 to do it?
00:41:56.600 And here's the thing,
00:41:57.560 it's not actually good
00:41:58.500 for kids.
00:42:00.040 It talks down to them.
00:42:01.940 It's patronizing.
00:42:03.280 And it doesn't help them
00:42:04.700 learn and grow.
00:42:07.680 You know,
00:42:08.320 you compare it to,
00:42:09.080 like,
00:42:09.560 Mr. Rogers,
00:42:10.500 right?
00:42:11.320 Mr. Rogers made content
00:42:12.840 for children.
00:42:14.060 But he didn't present himself
00:42:16.020 like a child.
00:42:18.720 He was a grandfatherly
00:42:20.980 type of figure
00:42:21.720 and that was his vibe.
00:42:24.460 And so,
00:42:25.360 you know,
00:42:25.560 he passes the vibe check
00:42:26.840 if you're a parent.
00:42:28.060 The vibe is,
00:42:30.420 oh,
00:42:30.560 he's like a grand,
00:42:31.120 he's like a grandfather.
00:42:33.180 You know,
00:42:33.780 a friendly,
00:42:34.400 grandfatherly type
00:42:35.420 person.
00:42:37.420 And that's wholesome
00:42:38.320 and that's constructive
00:42:39.200 and that's edifying.
00:42:40.720 Children can learn from that.
00:42:42.340 It helps them grow.
00:42:44.740 But when you put on
00:42:45.660 the overalls
00:42:46.420 and start speaking to them
00:42:47.680 in this, like,
00:42:48.160 absurdly,
00:42:49.040 over-the-top,
00:42:49.960 childish,
00:42:51.460 patronizing way,
00:42:52.740 they're not learning anything.
00:42:54.560 So,
00:42:57.380 just for example,
00:42:58.100 I went to Miss Rachel's page
00:42:59.440 and pulled up just one,
00:43:00.660 like,
00:43:01.200 randomly,
00:43:01.580 one of the videos at the top
00:43:02.580 because any one of them
00:43:03.940 makes the point.
00:43:07.020 And if you have not seen
00:43:08.040 this person,
00:43:08.520 again,
00:43:08.800 there's, like,
00:43:09.160 billions of views
00:43:10.200 for this stuff.
00:43:10.840 This video has hundreds
00:43:11.620 of millions of views,
00:43:12.200 I think.
00:43:13.040 Billions of views overall.
00:43:14.720 Nothing political here.
00:43:16.260 There's nothing overtly
00:43:17.340 objectionable
00:43:18.160 or inappropriate
00:43:19.000 about this.
00:43:21.600 I'll just play 20 seconds.
00:43:23.080 It's all I can tolerate
00:43:23.920 and it's all you're
00:43:24.580 going to be able to tolerate.
00:43:26.060 But watch.
00:43:28.880 Hi, friends.
00:43:30.540 Today,
00:43:31.160 we're going to learn
00:43:32.220 all about animals together.
00:43:35.200 It's going to be
00:43:36.160 so much fun.
00:43:37.640 Can you do this rhyme with me?
00:43:40.000 An oink,
00:43:40.880 a moo,
00:43:41.680 a cock-a-doodle-doo.
00:43:43.560 Who's in the barn
00:43:44.780 playing peek-a-boo?
00:43:48.300 My God.
00:43:49.720 Stab me in the face
00:43:50.780 and kill me,
00:43:51.500 please.
00:43:53.120 Just stab me
00:43:54.340 and kill me.
00:43:56.680 I would rather
00:43:57.680 be stabbed to death
00:43:58.700 than watch
00:43:59.300 five minutes of that.
00:44:01.700 I would rather
00:44:02.580 jump out of the
00:44:03.780 100th story
00:44:04.920 window
00:44:05.820 than watch that.
00:44:09.220 When the next regime
00:44:10.340 comes in
00:44:10.860 and they start
00:44:11.200 arresting people like me,
00:44:12.620 if they give me an option,
00:44:13.700 they say,
00:44:14.000 we're going to put you
00:44:14.880 in solitary confinement
00:44:16.040 and make you watch
00:44:16.780 Miss Rachel
00:44:17.480 and I'm going to
00:44:19.020 or we could
00:44:20.680 just throw you
00:44:21.240 off a building.
00:44:22.100 I would say,
00:44:22.680 please the building.
00:44:24.580 I would thank them
00:44:25.400 for it,
00:44:25.660 actually.
00:44:26.080 I'd be so grateful
00:44:26.800 to not have to
00:44:27.460 thank God.
00:44:28.540 Thank you.
00:44:29.140 Yes,
00:44:29.400 absolutely.
00:44:32.380 So,
00:44:33.220 this is pure slop.
00:44:35.580 Okay?
00:44:35.920 Just because it's for kids
00:44:37.240 and there's bright colors,
00:44:39.140 this is what parents think.
00:44:39.920 Oh,
00:44:40.140 it's for kids
00:44:40.720 and there's bright colors,
00:44:41.580 so automatically
00:44:42.320 it's wholesome.
00:44:42.880 it's slop.
00:44:45.860 Pure slop
00:44:46.840 for little children.
00:44:48.600 This is the
00:44:49.260 four-year-old equivalent
00:44:50.760 of like Mr. Beast.
00:44:54.540 And this is not,
00:44:56.860 why are you talking
00:44:58.000 like that?
00:44:58.940 Okay?
00:44:59.560 And if you say,
00:45:00.440 well,
00:45:00.600 she's talking to kids.
00:45:01.540 Really?
00:45:01.880 Is that how you talk
00:45:02.720 to your kids?
00:45:03.440 If you're a parent,
00:45:04.140 you talk to your kids
00:45:04.820 like that all the time.
00:45:06.380 Hey,
00:45:06.960 friends,
00:45:07.960 let's have some fun.
00:45:10.160 Let's make
00:45:12.860 animal noises,
00:45:14.140 friends.
00:45:14.600 And you've got your overalls
00:45:15.760 and you're dressed
00:45:16.220 like a kid.
00:45:16.920 Really?
00:45:17.340 Is that how you parent?
00:45:19.740 No.
00:45:22.440 This is not how anyone
00:45:23.680 has ever raised kids.
00:45:25.160 This is a very new thing
00:45:26.880 that we've come up with.
00:45:29.080 That if you want to,
00:45:30.000 if you're an adult
00:45:30.640 making,
00:45:31.180 you know,
00:45:31.660 entertainment for children,
00:45:32.840 it's like you got to put
00:45:33.620 on that whole act.
00:45:36.900 Now,
00:45:37.360 it's true that men
00:45:38.000 and women are different
00:45:39.080 and women are,
00:45:40.160 they're going to be
00:45:40.660 and should be softer
00:45:42.160 and more maternalistic
00:45:43.960 in their approach.
00:45:45.500 And they will speak
00:45:46.580 to children more
00:45:47.640 on the child's level
00:45:49.020 than a father will.
00:45:52.320 This is why you need both.
00:45:53.500 It's why it's important
00:45:54.020 to have a mother and father.
00:45:55.060 Like one of the many reasons
00:45:56.160 why it's important
00:45:56.680 to have both approaches.
00:45:59.140 But that's not this.
00:46:00.400 This is not soft
00:46:02.540 and maternalistic.
00:46:04.100 This is obnoxious
00:46:05.620 and grating
00:46:07.080 and incredibly,
00:46:09.600 ridiculously patronizing.
00:46:12.660 And if you think
00:46:13.620 it's not possible
00:46:14.360 to patronize
00:46:15.220 like a five-year-old,
00:46:17.000 then again,
00:46:17.800 you're just clueless.
00:46:19.320 It's patronizing.
00:46:21.840 Here's a good general rule.
00:46:23.460 If your child
00:46:24.280 is watching content
00:46:25.820 that you as the parent
00:46:27.700 find so obnoxiously annoying
00:46:31.340 that you could not possibly
00:46:33.000 be in the same room
00:46:34.380 while it's on,
00:46:35.260 which is how any parent
00:46:38.260 must feel about that.
00:46:39.360 There's no way
00:46:40.040 that you as an adult
00:46:41.120 could tolerate that.
00:46:42.600 There's no way
00:46:43.120 that you could sit
00:46:43.600 and watch that
00:46:44.200 for any amount of time.
00:46:47.100 But if that's the case,
00:46:48.220 that's a good indication
00:46:49.180 that your kid
00:46:49.900 shouldn't be watching it.
00:46:51.980 Not because it's political,
00:46:54.280 not because there's
00:46:55.560 anything about it
00:46:56.600 that is on paper
00:46:57.740 inappropriate,
00:46:58.840 but just because
00:47:00.240 it's vapid
00:47:02.060 and irritating
00:47:03.660 and stupid
00:47:05.100 and bad
00:47:07.440 for their minds
00:47:08.200 and their souls
00:47:08.960 because of that.
00:47:13.000 You know,
00:47:13.740 as an adult,
00:47:15.900 there isn't going
00:47:16.520 to be any,
00:47:18.660 I mean,
00:47:19.740 there's not going
00:47:20.480 to be any,
00:47:20.840 like,
00:47:21.260 children,
00:47:21.740 even a,
00:47:22.660 there are some
00:47:23.180 good children's shows,
00:47:25.000 books for children,
00:47:26.460 like,
00:47:26.640 there's plenty,
00:47:27.380 there are,
00:47:28.160 that exists,
00:47:29.120 and there's not
00:47:30.040 going to be
00:47:30.420 a children's show
00:47:31.580 or book
00:47:32.320 that you will find
00:47:33.700 deeply absorbing
00:47:34.820 or entertaining.
00:47:36.320 Like,
00:47:36.480 it's not for you,
00:47:37.660 so the point isn't
00:47:38.720 that you should find
00:47:39.700 it really entertaining,
00:47:41.180 but if it's something
00:47:43.100 actually wholesome
00:47:44.060 and edifying
00:47:44.720 and well-made,
00:47:46.100 made with respect
00:47:47.260 for the audience,
00:47:50.260 okay,
00:47:50.640 and again,
00:47:51.060 that should not
00:47:51.500 sound silly.
00:47:52.460 Like,
00:47:52.940 yes,
00:47:53.180 if you're making stuff
00:47:53.960 for a five-year-old,
00:47:54.760 you should,
00:47:55.160 you should have respect
00:47:57.160 for your audience
00:47:57.820 of five-year-olds.
00:47:59.600 It's all the more
00:48:00.320 important to have
00:48:00.740 respect for the audience.
00:48:02.820 You don't have any
00:48:03.320 respect for the audience
00:48:04.060 when you're churning
00:48:04.600 out this garbage.
00:48:08.620 And,
00:48:09.140 you know,
00:48:09.440 if it's something
00:48:10.240 like that,
00:48:10.800 wholesome,
00:48:11.180 edifying,
00:48:11.780 well-made,
00:48:13.000 then,
00:48:13.360 you know,
00:48:13.860 as a parent,
00:48:14.460 you might not,
00:48:15.100 like,
00:48:15.300 it's not the kind
00:48:15.760 of thing that you
00:48:16.320 would put on
00:48:16.760 and watch yourself,
00:48:17.740 but it's,
00:48:18.420 you can stomach it.
00:48:20.160 It's tolerable.
00:48:22.000 And there are
00:48:22.620 some children's shows
00:48:23.440 that are like that,
00:48:24.180 even today.
00:48:26.340 And this,
00:48:27.020 the problem is not
00:48:28.300 exclusive to
00:48:29.020 Miss Rachel.
00:48:29.900 It's not new.
00:48:31.420 You know,
00:48:31.680 there was a shift
00:48:32.400 in children's programming
00:48:33.380 going back to when
00:48:34.200 I was a kid.
00:48:35.460 And that's when
00:48:36.300 you started to see
00:48:37.140 this kind of,
00:48:37.880 like,
00:48:38.380 hyper,
00:48:39.060 weird,
00:48:39.700 patronizing,
00:48:40.500 overstimulating,
00:48:41.820 bright colors,
00:48:42.880 noises,
00:48:43.540 random stuff happening
00:48:44.900 type of content
00:48:46.520 for kids.
00:48:47.140 And that's when
00:48:47.400 you first started
00:48:48.120 to see it.
00:48:48.720 Teletubbies came out
00:48:49.500 back in the,
00:48:50.020 back in the 90s.
00:48:51.380 And I remember
00:48:51.840 that my parents
00:48:52.700 wouldn't let
00:48:54.160 my younger siblings,
00:48:55.300 Teletubbies were
00:48:56.120 after my time.
00:48:57.340 I think I was,
00:48:57.900 you know,
00:48:58.420 whatever,
00:48:58.800 10 or 12 when it
00:48:59.380 came out.
00:49:00.340 But I had younger
00:49:01.060 siblings that were
00:49:01.640 in the age group
00:49:02.260 for it.
00:49:02.920 And my parents
00:49:03.660 wouldn't let them
00:49:04.120 watch it.
00:49:04.700 And it's not
00:49:05.200 because they,
00:49:06.460 you know,
00:49:07.180 thought that there
00:49:07.920 was necessarily
00:49:08.720 anything objectionable
00:49:11.600 or political
00:49:12.180 in the show.
00:49:13.780 It's just that it
00:49:14.580 was,
00:49:15.520 it was,
00:49:16.340 you know,
00:49:16.640 my dad was the
00:49:17.240 same way.
00:49:17.580 He'd look at it
00:49:17.900 like,
00:49:18.040 this is just weird.
00:49:18.900 What the hell
00:49:19.360 is this?
00:49:20.780 Right?
00:49:21.000 He would walk in
00:49:21.560 and see something
00:49:21.960 like,
00:49:22.200 what is this?
00:49:22.800 What the hell
00:49:23.280 is this?
00:49:23.800 Why are you,
00:49:24.940 why are we letting
00:49:25.380 them watch this?
00:49:27.440 And it's just
00:49:28.060 babyish and
00:49:28.860 patronizing.
00:49:29.620 It was,
00:49:29.960 you know,
00:49:30.120 this was what
00:49:30.500 Teletubbies was.
00:49:31.060 It was like,
00:49:31.360 it was like a,
00:49:32.560 what they were
00:49:33.080 going for was
00:49:34.140 a show for
00:49:36.040 babies that
00:49:37.040 seems like it
00:49:38.060 was made by a
00:49:38.920 baby.
00:49:39.640 That's,
00:49:40.120 that's,
00:49:40.380 that was the
00:49:41.080 vibe.
00:49:42.080 And that is
00:49:43.000 not the tone
00:49:44.160 you want for
00:49:45.040 wholesome,
00:49:45.600 constructive,
00:49:46.220 edifying children's
00:49:47.040 content.
00:49:48.280 And now you
00:49:48.960 have these
00:49:49.360 YouTubers who
00:49:50.060 have stumbled
00:49:50.620 onto this
00:49:51.180 formula and
00:49:52.240 they just
00:49:52.540 start churning
00:49:53.200 this stuff
00:49:53.760 out.
00:49:55.180 Nobody knows
00:49:56.020 who these
00:49:56.300 people even
00:49:57.060 are.
00:49:58.640 They,
00:49:59.160 they come
00:49:59.600 along and
00:50:00.100 next thing
00:50:00.500 you know,
00:50:00.780 they're getting
00:50:01.100 literally billions
00:50:02.140 of views.
00:50:04.520 This is what
00:50:05.160 parents are
00:50:05.600 allowing.
00:50:06.140 You just
00:50:06.360 like,
00:50:06.740 you see a
00:50:08.320 video and
00:50:09.400 it's got a
00:50:10.260 lot of bright
00:50:10.640 colors and
00:50:11.400 it has a
00:50:11.940 picture of a
00:50:13.060 cow,
00:50:13.800 right?
00:50:14.400 And it's got
00:50:14.860 someone in
00:50:15.260 overall sitting
00:50:15.960 there smiling
00:50:16.680 and parents
00:50:18.500 go,
00:50:18.800 oh,
00:50:18.860 this is kids
00:50:19.280 content.
00:50:19.660 It must be
00:50:20.040 fine.
00:50:20.360 And you
00:50:22.360 don't stop
00:50:22.700 to think
00:50:23.000 like,
00:50:23.220 who is
00:50:23.480 this person?
00:50:24.340 This person
00:50:24.740 is like a
00:50:25.540 multi-millionaire
00:50:26.600 now making
00:50:27.240 content for
00:50:27.820 kids.
00:50:28.060 Who are
00:50:28.400 they?
00:50:28.960 What's
00:50:29.240 their game
00:50:29.640 here?
00:50:29.960 What are
00:50:30.700 their views?
00:50:32.080 Why are
00:50:32.640 they doing
00:50:32.940 this?
00:50:36.400 Kind of
00:50:36.920 question you
00:50:37.260 think you'd
00:50:37.560 ask.
00:50:40.320 And all
00:50:41.100 of this
00:50:41.380 stuff,
00:50:42.000 all it
00:50:42.900 does is
00:50:43.440 turn your
00:50:43.820 kids into
00:50:44.360 overstimulated
00:50:45.400 dopamine
00:50:46.660 addicts.
00:50:50.360 Miss
00:50:51.120 Rachel,
00:50:51.760 as I
00:50:52.180 discovered
00:50:52.520 when I
00:50:52.700 went to
00:50:52.900 her page
00:50:53.260 just to
00:50:53.560 find that
00:50:53.980 one example,
00:50:55.540 the first
00:50:55.960 video at the
00:50:56.360 top of her
00:50:56.680 page is
00:50:57.700 for babies.
00:51:00.080 So her
00:51:00.400 first video,
00:51:01.660 so she
00:51:01.880 makes content
00:51:02.860 for toddlers
00:51:03.660 and like
00:51:04.300 preschoolers.
00:51:05.300 She also
00:51:05.980 makes videos
00:51:06.640 for actual
00:51:07.580 babies,
00:51:08.340 like for
00:51:09.360 one-year-olds.
00:51:12.740 Who the
00:51:13.460 hell is
00:51:15.220 putting
00:51:16.200 YouTube on
00:51:17.340 for a
00:51:18.340 baby?
00:51:18.760 Why?
00:51:20.360 And then
00:51:22.660 when I've
00:51:23.040 asked this
00:51:23.340 question,
00:51:23.680 I always
00:51:23.860 get the
00:51:24.100 answer,
00:51:24.820 oh,
00:51:25.020 well,
00:51:25.580 she teaches
00:51:26.140 the ABCs.
00:51:28.060 She teaches
00:51:28.900 colors.
00:51:31.540 Can't you
00:51:32.160 do that?
00:51:33.640 You're the
00:51:34.260 parent.
00:51:36.560 Well,
00:51:36.900 without Miss
00:51:37.740 Rachel,
00:51:38.120 how am I
00:51:38.480 going to
00:51:38.660 teach my
00:51:39.060 kids the
00:51:39.580 ABCs?
00:51:40.340 I don't
00:51:40.520 know,
00:51:40.900 teach them?
00:51:42.760 Like,
00:51:43.600 the way
00:51:44.840 that parents
00:51:45.320 taught kids
00:51:45.960 for thousands
00:51:46.500 of years
00:51:46.900 before YouTube
00:51:47.540 existed,
00:51:48.380 before Miss
00:51:48.860 Rachel was
00:51:49.440 a thing?
00:51:53.620 That's what
00:51:54.140 you should
00:51:54.540 be doing.
00:51:56.440 Turn the
00:51:57.000 damn YouTube
00:51:57.400 off and
00:51:57.840 read your
00:51:58.180 kid a
00:51:58.500 book.
00:51:59.060 How about
00:51:59.280 that?
00:52:02.080 So,
00:52:03.620 that's the
00:52:06.580 real problem.
00:52:08.760 And I said
00:52:09.180 it would be
00:52:09.400 abbreviated
00:52:09.840 headlines,
00:52:10.240 but I
00:52:10.380 ended up
00:52:10.660 ranting
00:52:10.920 about Miss
00:52:11.360 Rachel for
00:52:12.000 25 minutes,
00:52:15.160 and that's
00:52:15.460 fine,
00:52:15.720 because it's
00:52:16.680 important.
00:52:17.860 It's
00:52:17.980 millions of
00:52:18.860 kids are
00:52:19.240 spending
00:52:19.480 hours a
00:52:20.040 day with
00:52:21.200 this stuff,
00:52:21.880 and it
00:52:22.200 really does
00:52:22.600 matter.
00:52:24.380 So,
00:52:24.860 turn it
00:52:25.100 off,
00:52:25.360 read your
00:52:25.580 kids a
00:52:25.840 book.
00:52:26.320 That's my
00:52:26.740 point,
00:52:27.020 that's my
00:52:27.320 message,
00:52:27.940 and we
00:52:28.360 will leave
00:52:29.320 it there for
00:52:29.700 today.
00:52:29.980 Thanks for
00:52:30.200 watching,
00:52:30.440 thanks for
00:52:30.680 listening.
00:52:31.860 Have a great
00:52:32.260 day,
00:52:32.500 Godspeed.
00:52:32.760 What was it
00:52:41.940 like,
00:52:42.440 Merlin,
00:52:43.080 to be
00:52:43.980 alone with
00:52:44.900 God?
00:52:50.060 Is that
00:52:50.780 who you think
00:52:51.240 I was alone
00:52:51.720 with?
00:52:56.220 Meritin,
00:52:57.120 I knew
00:52:57.460 your father.
00:52:58.700 I am yet
00:52:59.140 convinced that
00:52:59.900 he was not
00:53:00.380 of this world.
00:53:02.760 all men
00:53:04.780 know of
00:53:05.400 the great
00:53:05.940 Taliesin.
00:53:07.140 You are my
00:53:07.700 father,
00:53:08.320 that the
00:53:08.600 gods should
00:53:09.120 war for
00:53:09.860 my soul.
00:53:11.480 Princess
00:53:12.060 Garrus,
00:53:13.020 saviour of
00:53:13.960 our people.
00:53:17.020 I know
00:53:17.620 what the
00:53:17.820 bull god
00:53:18.120 offered you.
00:53:19.540 I was
00:53:20.160 offered the
00:53:20.580 same.
00:53:21.560 And?
00:53:23.040 There is a new
00:53:23.820 power at work
00:53:24.340 in the world.
00:53:25.180 I've seen it.
00:53:27.420 A god who
00:53:28.060 sacrifices what
00:53:28.740 he loves for
00:53:29.200 us.
00:53:29.380 We are
00:53:30.200 each given
00:53:30.600 only one
00:53:31.080 life,
00:53:31.380 singer.
00:53:32.700 No.
00:53:33.780 We're
00:53:34.160 given another.
00:53:37.580 I learnt
00:53:38.420 of Yazoo the
00:53:39.020 Christ.
00:53:39.960 And I
00:53:40.360 have become
00:53:40.780 his follower.
00:53:41.820 He's waiting
00:53:42.360 on Merlin,
00:53:43.300 and I think
00:53:43.860 you can
00:53:44.320 give him
00:53:44.680 one.
00:53:45.380 Trust in
00:53:45.940 Yazoo.
00:53:46.720 He is the
00:53:47.180 only hope
00:53:47.860 for men
00:53:48.660 like us.
00:53:49.660 Faith to
00:53:50.000 Britain never
00:53:50.560 rests in the
00:53:51.160 hands of the
00:53:51.620 great light.
00:53:52.680 Great light,
00:53:53.820 great darkness.
00:53:55.260 Such things
00:53:55.840 mattered to me
00:53:56.400 then.
00:53:56.700 What matters
00:53:58.400 to you now,
00:53:59.020 mistress of
00:53:59.520 lies?
00:54:01.360 You,
00:54:02.920 nephew.
00:54:06.020 The sword
00:54:07.060 of a high
00:54:07.840 king.
00:54:10.280 How many
00:54:11.020 lives must be
00:54:11.780 lost before
00:54:12.340 you accept
00:54:13.060 the power
00:54:13.640 you were
00:54:14.760 born to
00:54:15.380 wield?
00:54:18.040 Circling
00:54:18.560 to the
00:54:18.940 promises of
00:54:19.520 a god
00:54:19.880 who has
00:54:20.120 abandoned
00:54:20.620 you.
00:54:21.220 I cannot
00:54:21.760 take up
00:54:22.340 that sword
00:54:22.720 again.
00:54:24.020 You know
00:54:24.740 what you
00:54:25.080 must do.
00:54:26.700 Great light,
00:54:28.380 forgive me.
00:54:36.320 The time
00:54:37.120 has come
00:54:37.540 to be
00:54:39.100 reborn.