The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 609 - What's Really Driving The Trans Epidemic Among Children

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Wall Show, a horrifying documentary on HBO intends to promote

00:00:04.140 the transing of children, but instead it accidentally shows why and how kids really

00:00:09.660 end up gender confused. It's not surprising, but it is illuminating. We'll talk about that today. 0.68

00:00:13.940 Also, five headlines, including the governor of Maryland announcing that we don't have a

00:00:18.600 constitutional right to not wear a mask. We will deal with that bizarre and alarming claim today.

00:00:24.620 And Emperor Cuomo has a message for any police officers who refuse to enforce his royal edicts,

00:00:30.820 plus our five headlines and much more all in the way.

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00:02:35.700 while supplies last. Well, on Monday, a horrifying clip from a recently released HBO documentary went viral.

00:02:41.940 In the scene, congregants at a Unitarian Universalist church are invited by the female

00:02:48.220 pastor to, quote, proclaim their identity publicly as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer,

00:02:55.080 queer or questioning, intersex, pansexual, asexual, or any category I've left out, unquote.

00:03:01.520 A mother then pulls her young son, four years old it turns out, onto the stage to announce that he's

00:03:07.860 really a girl. But the poor child has no interest in being paraded around like his mother's show

00:03:13.900 pony. So he hands the microphone back saying that he doesn't want to do it. The mother takes it upon

00:03:19.620 herself to come out on her son's behalf, informing the audience that her son, Phoenix, would, quote,

00:03:25.640 like you to know that she's a girl and she prefers she and her pronouns. Completing this apparently

00:03:31.920 familiar ritual, the pastor hands the child a pink flower as the congregation repeats its creepy

00:03:38.080 affirmation in unison, quote, may you be well, safe, and whole. We honor you exactly as you are.

00:03:46.420 Of course, that's the exact opposite of what they're really doing. This isn't even the worst

00:03:52.040 scene in HBO's transhood documentary, which is now available on their streaming platform.

00:03:57.500 The film follows four transgender children over the course of five years. It's clearly meant to 0.75

00:04:04.040 promote and normalize the deranged sort of child abuse just described. But any rational person who

00:04:10.220 subjects themselves to the film, which I did, but I wouldn't recommend it, will come away with a

00:04:15.920 number of important insights that the filmmakers did not intend. Phoenix's case is, I think, especially

00:04:22.140 instructive. Before the forced coming out party, we see the boy in a dress, in a different scene,

00:04:28.880 on a bed filled with lots of pink and rainbow colored things, and he's being read a book called

00:04:34.640 Jacob's New Dress by his mother. Here's that scene, if you can stomach it.

00:04:40.320 Emily slid into a shiny yellow dress while Jacob wiggled into a sparkly pink dress.

00:04:45.220 What are you wearing? He asked Mom. It's like a dress. I made it. Dad frowned. You can't go to

00:04:51.480 school with that. Put on some shorts and a shirt under that dress thing, Mom said, and hurry. We're 0.99

00:04:56.660 late for school. You're never late for school, are you? Because you're home school.

00:05:04.380 Let's get the sewing machine, she said finally. Jacob felt the air refill his body. He grinned. Mom

00:05:11.200 smiled back. There are all sorts of ways to be a boy, she said, right? Wait, I'm a boy. No, no. And

00:05:18.280 also. You're a rainbow. And I'm also wearing clothes. Girl clothes. You are wearing, they are your clothes,

00:05:25.320 so they are boy clothes. Dad looked up on his butt. Yeah. Okay, then they're girl clothes. 0.99

00:05:30.460 I am a girl boy. Next, in an interview, the mother, Molly, tells us that Phoenix is, quote,

00:05:40.260 quote, gender expansive, non-binary, gender non-conforming, gender awesome, under the trans

00:05:47.200 umbrella, girl boy, and rainbow boy. All of those things. Before finally concluding that, quote,

00:05:53.480 we don't really have a good term. Well, I have a really good term. It's called boy.

00:05:59.520 Now, for his part, the father, Zach, mostly sits quietly, a common theme in the film, which we'll

00:06:04.360 return to in a moment. But he agrees that his son's gender is somehow, quote, up in the air right now.

00:06:10.440 Eventually, Phoenix, who never at any point shows any strong desire to be a girl and appears to be

00:06:16.860 mostly confused and bored with the whole thing, is nonetheless socially transitioned into one.

00:06:22.920 But the years pass and Phoenix continues in the nasty habit of being a boy, despite his parents

00:06:28.020 insisting. Otherwise, eventually they get divorced, another common theme, and decide that, never mind,

00:06:33.820 actually their son is a boy after all, it turns out. But the good news is that Molly feels better at the

00:06:39.380 end because she's worked through her issues and is starting a new leaf, where we are not exactly

00:06:44.680 told how her son really feels about having his gender switch back and forth. While his home life

00:06:49.800 is ripped in two and his parents give up on their marriage, his feelings and well-being appear to be

00:06:54.240 more of an afterthought amid his mother's psychodrama. Shades of the Phoenix story can be easily detected in

00:07:01.320 the other three trans kid profiles. There's Jay, age 12, when filming begins. She's a girl making 1.00

00:07:09.660 the, quote, transition into a boy. Her father doesn't appear to be in the picture at all. I don't

00:07:13.860 think we see him at all. But her mother, Bryce, is a lesbian who eventually meets and marries a 1.00

00:07:18.220 defensive lineman from the local women's football league. We're first introduced to Jay when she's

00:07:23.060 being given her first hormone blocker injection before the onset of puberty. Later, she goes into surgery

00:07:28.420 to have a blocker implanted in her body. Bryce, the mother, seems unsure, even at times distraught by

00:07:35.020 all this. But she goes along with it and funds it and facilitates it every step of the way. Similar

00:07:41.300 dynamic with Lena, 15 years old at the beginning of the film, also just beginning the medical transition,

00:07:46.960 in this case from boy to girl. We meet Lena and his divorced father, Mike, as the two are out bikini

00:07:53.520 shopping for the young man. We learn that Mike had his hesitations about the transgender thing when

00:07:58.800 Lena first announced his gender confusion around the time of the parents' divorce nine years prior.

00:08:03.500 There's that theme again. But has since learned to accept it. And now his sons, or his quote-unquote

00:08:08.800 daughters, ambition is to become a victorious secret model. And Mike, along with his ex-wife,

00:08:13.560 accompany Lena to his first modeling tryout. By the end of the film, Lena has decided to take it all the

00:08:19.460 way going under the surgeon's knife. The surgeon is also transgender to make his physical transition 0.96

00:08:25.940 permanent and basically irreversible. The most disturbing story of all is that of seven-year-old

00:08:32.460 Avery. He's a boy who, according to his parents, is really deep down a girl. Avery's mother, Debbie,

00:08:40.200 traipses the child all around the country, doing media interviews, attending marches, rallies, etc.

00:08:45.180 The cameras catch the moments when Debbie informs Avery that he'll be, quote, writing a trans-affirming

00:08:52.340 children's book and then going on a book tour against his will. He doesn't want to do it.

00:08:56.820 And also when Debbie tells Avery that a National Geographic photographer will be arriving shortly

00:09:01.840 to take pictures for the magazine's upcoming cover story on gender. Avery is visibly and audibly

00:09:08.440 unhappy with all of this, all throughout the entire film. He objects to all of his mother's schemes and

00:09:16.560 at one point late in the film, upon hearing that he'll be forced to attend yet another LGBT rally in

00:09:21.680 D.C., says that his life is ruined and voices a level of exhaustion and weariness that no child

00:09:28.600 should ever experience. Let me play that scene for you now.

00:09:31.900 We're going to Washington, D.C.

00:09:33.620 Again.

00:09:34.420 And we're going to be moving to the White House essential area to throw a book in Donald Trump's face.

00:09:42.540 I don't think that we want to say that, no. This one is Time to Thrive, and it's for people who

00:09:48.060 work with LGBTQ youth. We actually go and meet with our senators, some representatives. After we do

00:09:54.600 that, we go and sit and sell some of Avery's books for a little while. Avery, manors.

00:10:03.300 I just don't want to even have a book. I've done too much in this world. It's ruined my life enough, and now

00:10:10.640 everyone in this world is going to know if I sell my book, it's going to go on the news along with me for

00:10:18.680 like the 50th time at this point, and it's just going to make my life worse. A couple years ago,

00:10:25.520 you wanted people to know. Yeah, I did, but now that was a really stupid, silly mistake, and now I don't. 0.99

00:10:34.680 Yeah, that's something. I'll go back now. 0.97

00:10:37.680 Avery doesn't seem too invested in this female persona. Minus the long neon-colored hair and the 0.50

00:10:47.360 overcompensating rainbow outfits that his mother puts him in, he comes across like a relatively

00:10:52.040 normal young boy. Debbie, noticing this with some level of alarm, decides that Avery is just a, quote,

00:10:59.400 tomboy trans girl. Yes, that would be a boy who is a girl who acts like a boy. 0.99

00:11:05.020 As for Avery's father and his view of everything, it's never made entirely clear. Like the other

00:11:11.020 fathers in the film, he's basically a useless lump of nothingness floating along with the tide 0.97

00:11:15.420 while his wife psychologically and physically destroys his son in order to satisfy her own 0.99

00:11:20.200 unquenchable narcissism. These men are literally watching their sons be turned into girls,

00:11:24.660 and that's one of the ingredients that is always present whenever a young boy is forced to sacrifice

00:11:30.200 his masculinity in this way. They always have fathers who have already willingly

00:11:34.860 sacrificed their own. That is a necessary ingredient. And that is one of the important lessons the film

00:11:42.400 doesn't want to teach us, but does anyway. There is no mystery to the transness of Avery, Phoenix,

00:11:48.780 Lena, or Jay, or any trans child. In Avery's case, his mother has, it would seem, very clearly imposed

00:11:56.000 a trans identity onto him. Munchausen syndrome by proxy is a known mental illness where a parent,

00:12:02.060 usually a mother, pretends that their child is sick or sometimes even causes the child to be sick in order to

00:12:07.460 gain sympathy and attention for themselves, from the public. If the psychiatric industry was at all honest

00:12:13.100 and trustworthy, Debbie would be diagnosed with this disorder and her children removed from her care 0.61

00:12:17.540 for their own safety. As it happens, though, and as the film clearly portrays, doctors and therapists are much

00:12:23.220 more likely to feed into this kind of mania than to diagnose and treat it. That's the other piece of the puzzle

00:12:28.420 that removes any mystery from the trans epidemic among children. The entire medical field, with very 0.63

00:12:34.160 rare exception, has bought into this radical left-wing gender theory. A gender-confused child

00:12:39.740 with a parent like Debbie stands no chance. He will find no help, no protection from his pediatricians or

00:12:49.500 his therapist or his school. They're just going to send him off to be drugged, mutilated, and further

00:12:54.380 abused. But not all trans kids have parents like Debbie. The other kids in transhood seem to have 0.98

00:13:01.600 mothers and fathers who are perhaps less exploitative than they are confused, incompetent, 0.93

00:13:06.840 and self-absorbed. All throughout the documentary, we constantly see the parents turning to their kids

00:13:14.340 and asking them for direction, relying on their children to take the lead, asking them,

00:13:21.460 what do you want to do? How are you feeling? How do you identify? You tell us, putting it all on them,

00:13:28.100 on their shoulders, the burden of leadership, placing it on their five-year-old son's shoulders.

00:13:34.620 Phoenix's dad gives the closest thing we hear to a fatherly lecture in the whole film,

00:13:39.560 telling his son-turned-daughter-turned-son that it's okay that he was a girl before, and it's okay that

00:13:45.140 he's a boy now, and it's okay if he's a girl later. And really, it's all up to him. 0.71

00:13:49.200 Well, gee, thanks for the advice, Pop. Very clarifying. Like any other child, Phoenix desperately

00:13:55.920 needs direction and leadership and clarity. What he gets instead are shrugging shoulders

00:14:01.460 and his pathetic, hen-pecked father's refusal to offer any guidance of any kind whatsoever. 0.98

00:14:07.820 So it's up to Phoenix to figure out who he is, what reality is, what anything is. His parents will 0.99

00:14:15.320 provide nothing to the child except food, a bed, a roof, and a bunch of pretty dresses should he 0.75

00:14:19.980 decide he wants to wear them. Other than that, the boy's on his own. And that's how you end up with

00:14:26.120 transgender children. Of course, the documentary wants us to learn a different lesson. In the epilogue 1.00

00:14:30.700 before the credits roll, the last thing we're told is that Lena, right after waking up from his,

00:14:38.240 as they call it in Orwellian speak, gender affirmation surgery, supposedly turned to his

00:14:43.760 mother and whispered, I'm free. Now, I doubt whether he said that at all, but if he did,

00:14:50.020 it was yet another expression of the tragic confusion that has plagued this kid since early

00:14:55.080 childhood. He is not free now that he has rejected himself and his own biological nature in a way that

00:15:00.940 can never really be undone. But that is another lesson he'll have to learn on his own, with no

00:15:07.520 help from his parents. And the sad thing is that when he does, like so many other kids, it'll be too

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00:17:11.340 Okay. Number one, yesterday, the governor of Maryland, Larry Hogan, articulated his argument

00:17:16.840 against people who don't wear their masks like good boys and girls are supposed to.

00:17:22.780 And his argument is it's something. It really is. Listen to this.

00:17:27.120 Well, it's sort of like saying I have a constitutional right to drive drunk. I have a constitutional right

00:17:34.000 to not wear a seatbelt or to yell fire in a crowded movie theater or to not follow the speed limit.

00:17:40.920 It's, you know, we're talking about a quarter of a million people dying already, you know,

00:17:47.600 more than, you know, the Korean War, the Gulf War and the Vietnam War added together.

00:17:54.580 Which part don't you understand? You wear the mask. There's no constitutional right

00:17:58.840 to walk around without a mask. This is, we did it in 1918. I don't know why we can't do it now.

00:18:04.700 Okay. So a couple of things here. First of all, he's doing that dumb thing where he compares war

00:18:09.240 deaths to disease deaths. And that is always dishonest and misleading as it's, as it's supposed 0.95

00:18:14.740 to be. You could do that to make any number sound scarier, right? You could say the flu kills 10 times

00:18:22.080 more people in the year than did the revolutionary war. I mean, you could phrase it that way if you

00:18:27.020 want to, if you're trying to make it sound scarier and mislead. Second, comparing not wearing a mask

00:18:34.600 to driving drunk is completely hysterical and ridiculous. What would just, just, just try to 0.93

00:18:41.260 factor this. What are the chances that you, while driving drunk, would hurt or kill someone,

00:18:47.880 including yourself? Probably pretty high, right? I don't know what the, someone could probably look

00:18:52.420 it up. What are the statistical chances? You get behind the wheel, you're drunk. What's the percentage

00:18:57.720 chance that you're not going to make it home without hurting or killing someone? Pretty high. 0.84

00:19:02.880 And that's why you shouldn't drive drunk. Um, okay. Now what are the chances that you,

00:19:08.540 while not showing any symptoms, will hurt or kill someone because you didn't wear a mask?

00:19:16.100 What are the percentage chances? If you think it's anything close to the chance with drunk

00:19:22.160 driving, you're a lunatic. I mean, it's not even in the same statistical ballpark, not the 0.97

00:19:27.080 same city, not the same planets. So these are, these are just not comparable at all. Um, and if,

00:19:35.940 if, you know, once again, if this is what we're doing and this is the attitude we're going to have,

00:19:41.400 then, um, then we're going to be wearing masks forever.

00:19:44.840 You know, if not wearing a mask is really akin to driving drunk, then we're going to be wearing

00:19:52.660 masks forever. It never ends. There's no limiting principle. Third though, um, he says we don't have

00:19:59.660 the constitutional right to not wear a mask. Okay. No, no governor. Let me just explain how the

00:20:08.500 constitution works because you're, you know, apparently as you don't need to know that in

00:20:13.280 order to become a governor. Um, that that's, that's, that's not it. The constitution is not

00:20:21.180 a comprehensive list of rights that we have. So it's not like, Oh, well, it doesn't listen to the

00:20:28.140 constitution. Therefore you don't have the right to do it. Because if that's the case, then we have

00:20:34.220 very few rights. No, the constitution is a comprehensive list of the powers and authorities

00:20:43.700 that the government has. So it's the other way around. If it's not in the constitution,

00:20:49.400 then you as the government don't have the authority to do it. So the question isn't,

00:20:53.520 um, do we have the constitutional right to not wear a mask? It's, does the government have the

00:20:58.180 constitutional authority to force you to wear a mask? And if you say that it does, then I could

00:21:04.280 say, where is it in the constitution? I don't see it in there. We have, um, the, the government is

00:21:13.780 supposed to have all of the powers and authorities outlined in the constitution. And if it's not in

00:21:20.680 there, then they don't have the power of authority. This idea that what, what, so, so it's, so it's not

00:21:30.260 even just that the constitution is supposed, according to Hogan, the constitution is supposed

00:21:34.100 to list all the rights that we have, but even in the negative, if it doesn't say that you don't have

00:21:40.020 the right to not do something, then you have to do it. What? It's a totally, totally incomprehensible

00:21:49.200 incoherent. Uh, number two, Biden has apparently picked John Kerry to be his climate czar. Um,

00:21:55.200 yes, John Kerry will be the czar of the climate. And you know, this is good for John Kerry and you

00:22:01.780 know, good, good, good to have him back. He is such an aggressively unimpressive, nothing of a man,

00:22:07.540 just an absolute waste of space. He has accomplished nothing, done nothing. What has John

00:22:12.220 Kerry done in his whole career of note? Yet he hangs around and just keeps getting appointed to stuff

00:22:18.160 when Democrats are in charge. This, this is the definition of the swamp and it is far from

00:22:23.480 drained by the way. Um, this is kind of how it is. You know, that, that guy at every office or

00:22:30.640 workplace who is just mediocre and bad at his job yet somehow hangs around forever and never gets

00:22:36.760 fired. Uh, I'm actually not sure who that guy is here at these offices, uh, which means it's probably

00:22:42.100 me. That's the thing. If you're looking around, every office has that guy. And if you, if you can't

00:22:46.880 identify that guy, when you look around at work, it's you, you're the guy. Um, so maybe it's me

00:22:52.840 here, but I know, you know, the worst example that I've ever encountered was at a pizza place that I

00:22:58.100 worked as a teenager. We had an assistant manager who I'm not kidding would sleep on the job. He

00:23:03.340 would go back into the office. Uh, and I don't even know why you need an office at a pizza place,

00:23:07.980 but he had a little office back there. And during rush during, during like Friday night pizza rush

00:23:13.580 for everyone's pizza Fridays, he would be sleeping in the back. And I still, I'm still salty about it.

00:23:19.320 I still haven't gotten over it 17 years later, but somehow he kept his job. Never got fired. No

00:23:24.800 matter what he just hung around. And the point is DC is populated almost exclusively with these kinds 0.62

00:23:33.300 of people, all of DC, just nothing but the guy who's bad at his job, but never gets fired. It's just

00:23:40.620 nothing but my pizza place assistant manager sleeping in the back. That's all it is. John

00:23:46.000 Carey, the perfect example of that. And now he gets to be the climate czar, which is nice.

00:23:51.600 I was kind of hoping to be the czar of the climate though, but, um, I can still hold out to be appointed

00:23:56.400 Lord of the sun. I'm still hoping for that position. He's czar of the climate. I can be Lord of the sun.

00:24:03.760 Uh, someone else, you know, that there's still a position, uh, you know, uh, King of the seven seas.

00:24:10.620 That's sort of my backup, my position, my safety school, if you will. All right. Number three,

00:24:15.040 reading from the, uh, daily wire, the administration of democratic governor, Tom Wolf announced

00:24:21.820 Monday that alcohol will be barred from being sold at restaurants and bars in Pennsylvania

00:24:26.320 from Wednesday evening until Thanksgiving morning. An apparent edict intended to slow the spread of

00:24:32.400 the China originated novel virus. Um, according to this is a, the, the Dr. Rachel L. Levine,

00:24:39.520 the secretary of health for the Commonwealth on Wednesday, November 25th, restaurants and bars

00:24:43.260 are ordered to suspend alcohol sales at 5.00 PM until 8.00 AM on Thursday, November 26th.

00:24:50.400 And I'm looking through here.

00:24:54.400 Yeah. There's no reason given for this. They never explain how this is going to make anyone safer.

00:25:01.780 Just suspending alcohol sales for a few hours the night before Thanksgiving. Another completely

00:25:10.180 arbitrary, pointless thing. Uh, but there's a pandemic, which means the government apparently

00:25:15.400 could do whatever it wants and come up with any rules it wants without giving any reasons for them.

00:25:19.820 Number four, Governor Cuomo yesterday had a, uh, a message for any police officers who refuse to enforce

00:25:26.140 his Royal edicts. And here is that message. Listen, I believe that law enforcement officer violates his or

00:25:34.800 her constitutional duty. I don't consider them a law enforcement officer because you don't have the 0.77

00:25:42.180 right to pick laws that you think you will enforce. And you don't enforce laws that you don't agree with.

00:25:51.160 Right. That's not a law enforcement officer. Uh, that's a dictator. Okay. A couple of issues here.

00:25:58.200 First, law enforcement officers have a moral duty and a constitutional duty, a moral and constitutional

00:26:05.180 duty. Uh, and they may determine that, for example, arresting people for having 11 family members

00:26:14.000 over for Thanksgiving violates both their moral duty and the constitutional duty. And I would agree with 1.00

00:26:19.920 them that it does refusing to enforce a quote law in that case is what a legitimate law enforcement

00:26:25.360 officer would do. They aren't supposed to be drones or robots. If a law is invalid, if it's

00:26:30.040 unconstitutional, if it's oppressive, if it's tyrannical, they should refuse to enforce it.

00:26:35.600 Also speaking of refusing to enforce laws, where was Cuomo on the rioting and looting? Okay. Those,

00:26:41.740 those are, those are good. The laws against rioting and looting. Those are good laws. Those are laws you,

00:26:46.980 you, you, you need in order to have a functioning society. And those laws weren't being enforced.

00:26:53.860 I don't remember governor Cuomo speaking out about that. Number five, finally, this, uh, again,

00:26:59.860 from the daily wire, another big controversy, this surrounding, uh, the issue of racist lip balm.

00:27:07.100 So if you're keeping a, a list at home of all the things that are racist, uh, your chapstick

00:27:12.380 is now also racist. Just so you know, personal care company, Burt's Bees has apologized over an

00:27:18.740 allegedly offensive ad featuring a black family wearing the business's pajamas. Oh, they sell 1.00

00:27:23.720 pajamas too. Okay. Not just, so your pajamas are also racist, your pajamas and your chapstick. Just

00:27:28.280 so you know, outrage erupted online when an ad appeared to feature four families. All the families

00:27:34.040 in the ad included a mother, father, and children, except the black family where there was a mother with

00:27:38.180 her two children. People were upset that the ad was apparently enforcing harmful stereotypes about

00:27:43.000 black people. Um, now why did this happen? Burt's Bees, of course, issued a groveling apology. 1.00

00:27:49.660 We're so, so sorry for this. We're sorry that you were offended by the ad for chapstick. I don't even

00:27:54.160 know. Now this is, uh, where did they see this? This was, this was, I don't know if Burt's Bees tweeted

00:28:00.000 the ad or what, but my question is where, how are you even looking at a chapstick ad for long enough

00:28:07.840 to notice anything supposedly offensive about it? But they issued the, uh, the, the, the, the groveling

00:28:16.140 apology. They said, we are so deeply sorry. We have learned a lot this year about impact and intent.

00:28:22.140 Our intent was never to promote an awful stereotype about black families or to inflict harm on anyone.

00:28:26.640 We understand that even so there is an impact and this image causes harm. Really? In what way?

00:28:33.580 It could, hum me a few bars there. I want, I want to understand in what way is someone harmed

00:28:38.940 by the chapstick advertisement or I'm sorry, the pajama advertisement from the chapstick company.

00:28:44.260 I want to know exactly. Okay. So there's a, there's a process here. Step one,

00:28:49.860 um, Burt's Bees puts out a pajama advertisement. Step three, people are harmed. What happens in step

00:28:58.860 two? How do we, what's the, what, what, how does this translate into actual harm to real living human

00:29:04.480 beings? That's never explained either. Um, and, uh, they explained though, they said that, uh, what

00:29:11.580 happened was they invited a bunch of families to come in and take pictures in their pajamas and, um,

00:29:17.380 everyone showed up. But, uh, uh, but in this case, the father of the black family had to work 0.93

00:29:22.300 and, uh, he didn't want to take off work to go shoot, to do a photo shoot for Burt's Bees in his

00:29:28.760 pajamas. I don't blame him. You know, I mean, if my wife came to me and said, oh, you know, we got

00:29:33.520 invited to put our pajamas on and take a photo shoot for a chapstick company. I would probably also

00:29:38.260 say, oh, what is that? Oh, is it? I got to work. Oh, it's Saturday at 5 AM. I still, I got to work.

00:29:44.520 I have a thing. I forgot to tell you. So there's a thing I have to do. So the father couldn't make

00:29:50.220 it for whatever reason, legitimate or not. And, um, and that's why they just decided to shoot it

00:29:54.220 anyway. Perfectly valid excuse and reason, but yet they still apologized. See, that's it. Burt's Bees

00:30:03.120 says, well, we, we learned about impact and intent. No, if you don't have the intent, if, if what you do

00:30:08.700 is completely innocuous and innocent and you have zero intent to cause any offense at all,

00:30:16.240 which of course you have zero intent, you're putting an ad for pajamas. The idea that you

00:30:21.500 intended to make some sort of statement about black families is ridiculous. So you have zero 0.99

00:30:27.500 intent to, to cause any offense. What you did was completely innocuous. That means there should be

00:30:33.880 zero apology. Anyone who's offended, it is their problem. Not yours. You didn't do anything wrong.

00:30:41.740 They misinterpreted it. That's their problem. But of course, that's not the message we're going to

00:30:46.400 get from Burt's Bees. Before we get to our daily cancellation, you know, it's, it's, it is our

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00:33:16.500 All right. Um, let's get to our daily cancellation. Today for our daily cancellation,

00:33:22.260 we're going to be canceling whatever the hell this is. Watch.

00:33:34.620 Okay. Actually, I do sort of know what the hell that is. That's a performance at the American Music

00:33:41.420 Awards this weekend. The performer there is named Megan Thee Stallion. Two E's. So I guess it is

00:33:47.640 Thee. Megan Thee Stallion. And she's performing her new hit, which if you couldn't tell, is called

00:33:53.280 Body. Now, Misse Stallion is getting canceled this afternoon for two reasons primarily. The first is

00:34:00.180 that this was a music award show live in person with musical performances and everything in California

00:34:06.700 in the middle of a pandemic that's supposedly so severe and contagious that we're meant to cancel

00:34:11.480 our Thanksgivings because of it. So we can't see our grandmothers over the holidays, but a bunch of

00:34:15.760 rich brainless drug addicts in the music industry can still get together to pat each other on the back 0.95

00:34:19.880 for producing ugly semi-coherent tripe and pouring the sludge directly into the minds of our impressionable 0.99

00:34:24.780 children. That's, that's how this is supposed to go. Now you may tell me that they did it safely

00:34:30.060 and they took precautions and it was fine. Well, I don't doubt it. Okay. Don't get me wrong. Just like

00:34:36.060 I don't doubt that going to Walmart with 10,000 other shoppers the day after Thanksgiving, as so

00:34:41.480 many people will be doing, is probably fine and safe. But if all of that can be done safely,

00:34:48.580 then so can all the other things that the government has banned or strongly discouraged. 0.96

00:34:53.920 If there's a way for Megan Thee Stallion to get on stage with a bunch of dancers and shake her butt 1.00

00:34:59.100 while screaming random obscenities without getting infected or infecting anybody else,

00:35:03.160 then I'm thinking there's probably a way for you to have a turkey dinner without getting infected or

00:35:07.640 infecting anybody else. Though perhaps your turkey dinner will have just as many obscenities. I don't

00:35:12.140 know. Hopefully it doesn't involve as much butt shaking. Also, if the risk involved in hosting the

00:35:19.600 AMAs, however severe or mild that risk may be, is worth it in order so that a bunch of pop stars can

00:35:26.040 tell each other how talented they are, then I'd say Thanksgiving is worth it so that you can be

00:35:31.100 with your families. And that's part of the reason why the AMAs and Megan Thee Stallion are canceled.

00:35:36.740 The other part is, of course, simply that, and I have to just mention this, that the song is really 0.99

00:35:42.920 extremely fantastically bad and stupid. It sounds very much like something a character would listen 0.99

00:35:49.160 to in the movie Idiocracy. That song and songs like it are a dog whistle to morons. Only those 1.00

00:35:55.860 with room temperature IQs can hear whatever is supposed to be appealing about it. Now, I understand

00:36:00.980 that it's trite to complain about bad pop music, but we must reach our limits eventually. At some point,

00:36:07.440 we must, as a society, say, this has gotten stupid enough and make that our cutoff. 0.99

00:36:13.160 Eventually, right? We have to just say, okay, all right, enough. If this isn't the cutoff, 0.99

00:36:19.760 then what is? I mean, listen to these lyrics. Here are the lyrics.

00:36:23.860 Body, adi, adi, adi, adi, adi, adi, adi, adi, adi, adi, adi, adi, adi, adi, adi, adi, adi, adi, adi, adi, adi, adi, adi, adi, adi, adi, adi, adi, adi, adi, adi.

00:36:34.660 if Shakespeare came back from the dead and found out that this is what passes for poetry in modern

00:36:41.260 society, he would throw himself in front of a bus. The only thing I wonder when I read lyrics

00:36:46.520 like this is whether the, quote, artist actually wrote them down ahead of time. Like, I wonder if,

00:36:52.220 and I always do wonder this, does she have, you know, writing sessions where she thinks long and

00:36:57.400 hard and goes, ah, yes, I have it, inspiration, this is it, and then starts writing, body, body,

00:37:02.800 body, body, body, body. Is that how it works? Actually, I like to imagine that she writes it

00:37:15.620 in calligraphy with ink and a quill pen. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou hath the

00:37:21.820 finest body, body, body, body, body, body. The point is that the music is very dumb, even by the standards 0.98

00:37:29.320 of dumb pop music, and I simply won't allow for stuff like this to be popular. I won't tolerate 0.98

00:37:33.700 it. I won't permit it. You aren't allowed to like this, and you can't. If you do, you are canceled,

00:37:40.820 and Megan Thee Stallion is canceled, and the AMAs are also canceled, as they should have been from

00:37:47.160 the beginning, because these are all the same people who lecture us and do the PSAs telling us

00:37:51.320 how dangerous the pandemic is. So, they're all canceled. All right, that's it for us today.

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Ep. 609 - What's Really Driving The Trans Epidemic Among Children

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