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

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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 1.00

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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 1.00

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. 0.83

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. 0.54

00:03:45.500 They desperately want to escape their uninteresting and depressing lives and reimagine themselves as like 1.00

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 0.96

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 0.73

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 1.00

00:09:38.500 practiced. I'm pretty sure a woman could play basketball as well as a man if she practiced. 1.00

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 1.00

00:10:06.120 headquarters of the NBA and NFL right now, demanding that every team signs a female athlete, just like 0.75

00:10:12.100 they have female referees now. It's not like the NBA and NFL are right-wing institutions. They'd 1.00

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 0.98

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 0.98

00:12:35.360 in San Francisco, that amounted to unconstitutional sex discrimination. But really, it's common 0.99

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 0.97

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 1.00

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 1.00

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. 1.00

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, 1.00

00:16:20.140 like Ketanja Brown-Jackson, are elevated to the most prestigious positions solely because they are black women. 1.00

00:16:27.420 Ketanja Brown-Jackson is not qualified to be like a high school principal, let alone a Supreme Court justice. 1.00

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. 1.00

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. 1.00

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. 0.99

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. 1.00

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

00:22:59.220 and which this country has desperately needed for a very long time.

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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. 0.98

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, 0.57

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, 0.94

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. 1.00

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. 1.00

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, 1.00

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, 0.97

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 1.00

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, 0.51

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.

00:33:54.240 You can't get a,

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,

00:33:58.920 and now they're over here.

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00:35:31.980 All right.

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. 1.00

00:35:53.600 She's done the gay pride thing. 0.86

00:35:54.720 She's done the pronoun thing. 0.86

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? 0.98

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? 0.98

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. 0.73

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, 0.98

00:43:40.880 a moo, 0.99

00:43:41.680 a cock-a-doodle-doo. 0.79

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, 0.94

00:43:51.500 please.

00:43:53.120 Just stab me

00:43:54.340 and kill me. 0.94

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 0.96

00:45:38.000 and women are different 1.00

00:45:39.080 and women are, 1.00

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 0.84

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, 0.97

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 0.93

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.

The Matt Walsh Show - January 14, 2026

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

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