The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 669 - Next Stop On The Slippery Slope： A Child With Three Dads

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, we're supposed to celebrate because for the first time,

00:00:03.820 a child has three legal fathers listed on her birth certificate. But I don't feel much like

00:00:09.640 celebrating. I'll explain why if it's not already obvious. Also, five headlines, including Governor

00:00:13.540 Cuomo facing political disaster due to his sexual harassment scandal. But how is it that this is a

00:00:18.900 scandal that takes him down and not the nursing home scandal that resulted in the deaths of

00:00:22.740 thousands of elderly people? And also the cancel mob is coming for Dr. Seuss. We'll talk about that

00:00:27.500 in our daily cancellation. We'll discuss the left's latest linguistic innovation, which is women,

00:00:32.440 but with an X instead of an E. All of that and much more today on the Matt Wall Show.

00:00:44.140 The New York Post announces the big news, a baby with three dads. This is supposed to be a historic

00:00:51.160 first, a major milestone in human history. And it certainly would be if there actually existed

00:00:57.360 a baby with three actual fathers. Turns out, and this is no surprise to the dwindling minority

00:01:02.760 with a rudimentary grasp of basic human biology, that the child merely has a birth certificate with

00:01:07.880 the names of three dudes written on it. Here's the post with the details. It says a gay polyamorous

00:01:13.200 California thruple made history in 2017 when they became the first family in the state to list three

00:01:18.560 parents on a birth certificate. Their reproductive journey and legal battle to become fathers to Piper,

00:01:23.720 now three, is detailed in Three Dads and a Baby, written by one of her dads, Dr. Ian Jenkins.

00:01:29.580 Jenkins and his partners, Jeremy Hodges and Dr. Alan Mayfield, don't see their family,

00:01:34.940 which now also includes their son, Parker, as unusual. Well, of course, it is by definition

00:01:42.000 unusual. It's not possible for a thing to make history and not be unusual. Indeed, unusual is the

00:01:49.720 most polite and measured thing that I can say about this particular arrangement.

00:01:55.260 But more from the post. It says, Jenkins met Mayfield, a psychiatrist,

00:01:59.540 while they were completing, so maybe I should tell you a little something about the psychiatry

00:02:03.320 industry. Well, anyway, he met a psychiatrist while they were completing their medical residencies in

00:02:08.220 Boston. The two were together for eight years when Hodges, who works at a zoo hospital, came into the

00:02:13.260 picture. Although their relationship with Hodges began as a friendship, things quickly turned romantic.

00:02:17.240 After five years of throupledom, the trio started seriously discussing parenthood when friends

00:02:21.980 offered to donate their leftover embryos to them. Leftover embryos. Isn't it inspiring to hear

00:02:28.740 human life referred to this way? Like it's a slab of meatloaf sitting in a Tupperware container in the

00:02:34.280 fridge? I got some leftover embryos. Let me go grab them. I think I got a couple in the trunk. I'll go take

00:02:40.140 a look. As it turns out, the leftover embryo, i.e. human life, wasn't viable. And the next attempt

00:02:47.960 also didn't take. So they took several tries, just tossing out the embryos. No big deal, just human

00:02:53.880 life. Finally, a helpful friend gave them some of her eggs, which were then fertilized in a

00:03:00.120 laboratory and implanted in the uterus of another friend. Meanwhile, some fancy footwork was performed 0.54

00:03:05.100 with the help of lawyers and tens of thousands of dollars of legal fees. And then presto chango,

00:03:10.680 just like magic, a child with three dads was born. Which is to say, a child with one father,

00:03:16.840 a mother she'll never know, who was conceived in a Petri dish, brought to term in a rented uterus, 0.51

00:03:22.400 and placed in the care of three men who immediately set out to monetize her existence with a 0.92

00:03:26.560 self-congratulatory memoir, was born. Tomato, tomato, I suppose. If you're feeling not terribly

00:03:33.440 excited about our new and improved society where babies can have three dads and no mom, 0.92

00:03:37.840 that's because you're a normal and sane person. As a normal and sane person, the whole thing

00:03:43.540 probably seems to you rather, I don't know, unnatural, disordered. You likely have the

00:03:50.160 impression that the interests of the children aren't being taken much into account here. Sure,

00:03:54.080 the men feel great about their dad trio, but their emotional needs aren't the primary concern

00:03:59.760 of normal and sane people. We're worried about the children, who are being treated more as

00:04:06.260 fashion accessories than human beings. To respect their humanity is to acknowledge

00:04:10.820 that children need mothers too. It is an absurd and damnable idea that the role of the mother can 0.99

00:04:17.080 be adequately replaced just by adding more dads into the equation. I'm still not exactly sure what the

00:04:23.600 exchange rate is. So you have one dad, that equals a dad, and then you've got two dads,

00:04:31.160 that equals a mom. So is it each dad equals one mom? I mean, how does it work exactly? Add four

00:04:36.500 more dads and you have two moms, a dad. But if adding dads is the plan, why stop at three?

00:04:42.600 Why not four dads? Four dads, five dads, six dads, seven? It's beginning to sound like a creepy

00:04:48.580 children's book that I'm sure somebody will eventually write. This is not a rhetorical question.

00:04:53.220 It's something we really need to think about because the floodgates are officially open and

00:04:56.280 have been for some time. Once society moves away from the nuclear family, not just in practice, 0.84

00:05:01.640 but in a categorical denial that it is the ideal family structure at all, then there's no remaining

00:05:06.620 boundary, no limiting principle. This is where the so-called slippery slope argument comes in,

00:05:11.500 and it's why those who warn about slippery slopes are usually proven correct, even as the left laughs and

00:05:17.280 guffaws at the whole notion that perhaps sometimes one thing might lead to another.

00:05:20.960 I mean, they call something a slippery slope argument as if simply labeling it slippery slope

00:05:27.340 is enough to debunk it. It's not. Yes, oftentimes slopes are slippery. Oftentimes one thing leads to

00:05:34.500 another. The point with the slippery slope is that when you tear down a boundary without any idea as to

00:05:41.240 where to rebuild it, or you get rid of a word's definition without even a suggestion as to what

00:05:46.740 its new definition ought to be, then you have obviously that it would seem by design sent this

00:05:55.020 new boundary-less undefinable thing tumbling into insanity and incoherence. You haven't actually

00:06:03.160 moved the boundary or changed the definition of the thing, but simply destroyed it. As I've observed

00:06:08.740 many times, this is the process playing out right now with respect to gender. We're told that the word

00:06:13.880 woman no longer means adult human female, which is what it meant since the dawn of time. So what does

00:06:20.120 it mean? If it's not that, then what is it? Those who seek to erase the word's traditional definition

00:06:27.900 have, it turns out, no plans for giving it a new one. They don't seek to promote a new or expanded

00:06:34.840 concept of womanhood, but to annihilate the very concept itself. It is not really a slope, but a freefall

00:06:42.880 plunge into obliteration. Each new stage in our moral and logical descent is predictable and

00:06:50.220 inevitable. If our biological identity has no meaning and can be changed on a whim, then the same will be

00:06:56.680 done with age and race and every other aspect of our identity. It's not a question of if. It will

00:07:04.500 happen. It is already beginning to happen, because there's no reason why it wouldn't happen.

00:07:11.060 Now that the precedent has been set and the logical and moral barriers preventing it from happening have

00:07:16.980 been removed. And so with marriage and family, it's the same. We have seen three men call themselves

00:07:25.280 dead. Soon that's not going to be the strangest or most disturbing combination. Give it enough time

00:07:32.040 and even the self-professed conservatives will be defending the three dad concept as valid and equal,

00:07:37.720 while maybe offering polite pushback to the newer, you know, four dads and three sex robots family

00:07:44.700 units. I wish I was exaggerating, but this is the path that we put ourselves on when we moved away

00:07:51.160 from the mother, father, nuclear family structure. That was, we had it right the first time. That was 0.86

00:07:58.480 right. Everything after that is wrong. And once you give up on that, there is no end. The truth is

00:08:09.440 that every child needs and deserves both a mother and a father. We have to preserve that or preserve

00:08:16.300 nothing. There is no middle option. There is no compromise with moral insanity. You either fight it

00:08:24.400 with all you have on every field of battle, never giving it a single inch or you surrender and let

00:08:31.100 it have its way with the culture. And we have obviously in this culture made our choice and we

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00:09:54.140 online at charitymobile.com. You know, I have to tell you, and this relates to what we're going to

00:09:59.160 talk about in the daily cancellation and a little bit to what we just talked about in the opening

00:10:02.260 monologue. But I am, maybe it's on my mind. I have, it's, I'm kind of crisis of conscience a little

00:10:08.880 bit and it's lent. It's a time for atonement and confession. So I have to confess to a little bit of

00:10:15.800 hypocrisy myself. I was playing Scrabble with my wife a few days ago. And in the early going of

00:10:25.280 the game, she was, she was beating me and she never beats me in Scrabble. I take immense pride

00:10:30.180 in my Scrabble prowess. And in fact, it all, in all, in my prowess in all board games, it's all I

00:10:35.380 have. It's the only thing I'm good at is board games. And so I, I, I cling to those. And finally,

00:10:40.860 we get towards the end of the game and it's getting, the score is pretty close. And, uh,

00:10:45.020 you know, we're at the, we're at the stage of the game. There's not a lot of room left on the board.

00:10:48.160 And, you know, you're putting down words like cat and stuff like that, just because you're trying to

00:10:52.020 get the titles up. And I put down the word Xer, Z-E-R, which is a trans inclusionary, you know,

00:10:59.600 gender neutral fake pronoun thing. And, uh, but Z 10 points, I put it on a triple letter score,

00:11:06.080 ended up with 32 points. I won the game on that basis, even though I know it's a made up word.

00:11:10.860 Um, and I, I did have a moment where I was like this, um, I am abandoning everything I believe

00:11:18.000 just to win this Scrabble game. But when it comes to board games, I basically have no morals.

00:11:25.260 I will do anything to win it only in the realm of board games. Um, but I did win the game. And,

00:11:32.620 uh, that's, you know, that, that's maybe the one good thing about all the leftist

00:11:36.900 in manipulation of language is it, it is great for Scrabble because they're adding a lot of Z's 1.00

00:11:43.080 and a lot of X's in, and those are high scoring tiles right there. So that's maybe the one good

00:11:47.980 thing. All right. Number one, this is from the New York post. It says New York governor,

00:11:50.960 Andrew Cuomo on Monday was accused of making unwanted advances towards a woman and planting

00:11:55.360 an unsolicited kiss on her cheek at a 2019 wedding. Anna Rutch, uh, 33 recalled to the New York

00:12:01.720 Times that he said, he said, can I kiss you? I was so confused and shocked and embarrassed.

00:12:07.660 The allegation comes after two former state staffers accused Cuomo 63 of sexual harassment

00:12:12.820 on the job, including one who claimed the governor kissed her without warning at his Manhattan office,

00:12:17.340 which she has denied. Unlike the other two women, Rutch has never been employed by the governor

00:12:21.580 or the state. According to the Times, former member of the Obama administration of 2020, uh,

00:12:26.260 Biden campaign, Rutch and Cuomo met at a crowded New York city wedding reception in December,

00:12:30.120 2019, uh, within moments of being introduced, Rutch claims the governor put his hands on the

00:12:35.300 small of her lower back, which was exposed in an open back dress. Um, and she said, quote,

00:12:40.460 I promptly removed his hand with my hand, which I would have thought was a clear enough indicator

00:12:44.560 that I was not wanting him to touch me. The governor apparently didn't get the hint.

00:12:47.980 He allegedly noted that Rutch seemed aggressive and then placed his hand on her cheeks and asked

00:12:52.500 her if he could kiss her. Um, she said she turned away, didn't have words in that moment.

00:12:57.340 There's actually a picture, I think of this moment where he's got his hands on her cheek and is

00:13:02.520 talking to her and she looks extremely uncomfortable. And there's been a lot of claims like this now,

00:13:07.440 you know, and this is everyone's turning against him. I mean, the media, um, everyone's turning against

00:13:13.860 him on this and this will probably take him down. I think it's probably going to have to resign if they,

00:13:19.260 if they, if they, if they keep up the pressure, because obviously for Andrew Cuomo, it doesn't matter.

00:13:23.980 Their conservatives can complain about him all they want. As we've discovered, it's not going

00:13:27.040 to make a damn bit of difference. He's the governor of New York after all. But when the left turns on

00:13:30.980 you as a governor of New York, well, then you've got, you've got nowhere to turn. Uh, so that's

00:13:34.840 what's happening here. Media is turning on him. Other elected Democrats, de Blasio throwing them under

00:13:40.700 the bus, which they hate each other. So no surprise there, but I, you know, I hear this and

00:13:46.860 I just can't, I can't quite get over the fact that this is, I'm not surprised. Okay. But even so,

00:13:56.920 this is what takes him down. This, not the fact that he killed thousands of old people,

00:14:05.700 he, he, he, he, through his actions, um, thousands of old people died. Thousands of elderly people 0.89

00:14:14.360 died because of him. And he wins an Emmy and a book deal because of it. Um, or maybe not because

00:14:24.420 of it, but certainly in spite of it, we have known about the nursing home scandal for months now.

00:14:29.680 And even after that came to light, the Emmy book deal, everything, he was celebrated, left, loved

00:14:35.680 him. Media loved him. So that's no big deal. So we say to the media, Oh, you know, this guy,

00:14:43.060 he killed 10,000 elderly people. Yeah. Oh, but he also touched a woman's cheek. Well, off with his head.

00:14:50.780 You want to talk about priorities. I mean, my God, there could be nothing that better illustrates

00:15:01.400 our backwards priorities in this country than this story. It, it does, it does have vibes of like

00:15:08.200 Al Capone getting taken down for tax evasion after everything that he did. It's like, it's like a

00:15:13.420 little bit of that. And so that's, that's also why people on the right, I think are jumping on this

00:15:18.100 sexual harassment bandwagon. Um, because they realize that this pales in comparison to the

00:15:26.100 nursing home scandal, not even in the same ballpark, not in the same city, not in the same

00:15:30.520 universe. Right. They realize that, but they figure, well, if this is what we can take them

00:15:33.920 down with and let's, let's do it. I can't quite jump on that band bandwagon because I can't stomach

00:15:40.220 it. I can't stomach pretending that this, who cares about this when, when we have this other

00:15:47.620 thing over here. If I'm going to spend any time criticizing Andrew Cuomo in my private life or on

00:15:55.260 this show, how could I carve out time to talk about him saying to a woman, can I kiss you when

00:16:02.700 he killed thousands of elderly people? That's the scandal. 100%. It's not even like it's mostly that

00:16:09.900 and a little bit of this. No, it's all that. The comments he made to women were, it sounds like

00:16:17.540 some of them were inappropriate. Okay. He made some inappropriate comments. Great. I understand. Uh,

00:16:23.160 he shouldn't have made those comments. He shouldn't have said them. Okay. Let's go back to talking about

00:16:28.840 all the dead elderly people. Let's talk about the dead people. These women that he made inappropriate 0.96

00:16:35.620 comments too. They're, they're, they're alive. You know, they're, they're thriving. There are a lot

00:16:43.120 of people who are not alive and not thriving today because of his actions. It is just, it cannot be

00:16:52.080 defended. What we're seeing happen right now. Um, that this is, what's going to take him down and

00:16:58.400 this is, and I'm not defending him. You know, I'm not, I don't, I'm not, I'm not looking to white 0.91

00:17:02.140 night for Andrew Cuomo here. My only point is if we're screaming about what a scumbag he is,

00:17:09.140 yes, he is a scumbag, but it's because of the nursing home scandal.

00:17:14.300 Now, um, Chris Cuomo is his, uh, younger adoring brother was forced to sort of acknowledge some of

00:17:23.460 this on his show yesterday in a way, but in, in his acknowledgement, he kind of, uh, condemned

00:17:31.640 himself and let's listen to it now and see what he says. Before we start tonight, uh, let me say

00:17:37.360 something that I'm sure is very obvious to you who watched my show and thank you for that. You're

00:17:42.920 straight with me. I'll be straight with you. Obviously I'm aware of what's going on with my

00:17:47.980 brother. And obviously I cannot cover it because he is my brother. Now, of course, CNN has to cover

00:17:57.880 it. They have covered it extensively and they will continue to do so. I have always cared very deeply

00:18:07.260 about these issues and profoundly. So I just wanted to tell you that there's a lot of news going on that

00:18:14.900 matters also. So let's get after that. Okay. When he says these issues covering it,

00:18:21.660 these issues are important. He's talking about the inappropriate comments to women. He's talking

00:18:24.800 about touching a woman's cheek or a lower back. That's what he's talking about. Not killing thousands

00:18:29.480 of elderly people. That's he's talking about the comments. That's the issue that matters with Andrew

00:18:35.180 Cuomo. Now, of course the claim that it's a conflict of interest, so he can't cover it is absurd

00:18:41.320 because he, if it's a conflict of interest to talk about a negative story pertaining to a family

00:18:49.700 member, then isn't it also a conflict of interest to talk about the supposedly positive stories? Talk

00:18:55.820 about how, what a, what a great job he's doing as governor, like as Andrew, as Chris Cuomo did for

00:19:00.460 months when he brought them on for their little buddy cop, you know, slapstick duo routine, comedy

00:19:07.520 routine complete with, uh, with props and everything. If, if the one is a conflict of

00:19:14.620 interest, then this is also a conflict of interest. It would seem to me. All right. Number two. So there

00:19:19.920 was a story that a school district in Virginia was banning Dr. Seuss on charges that Dr. Seuss was

00:19:26.060 racist, but CNN has the article running cover for this cancellation attempt, um, as best they can.

00:19:33.080 Let me pull it up here. It says a school district in Virginia recently made headlines for allegedly

00:19:38.940 banning books, uh, books by Dr. Seuss, but Lewdown County public schools, uh, located in Ashburn said

00:19:46.380 it is not banning books by the famous children's author is just discouraging a connection between

00:19:50.740 read across America, which was created to get kids excited about reading and Dr. Seuss's birthday

00:19:55.180 both fall on March 2nd and have often been historically connected to each other. According to the

00:19:59.940 district, um, it said in a statement, research in recent years has revealed strong racial undertones

00:20:05.860 in many books written slash illustrated by Dr. Seuss. Um, and examples of racial undertones in the

00:20:12.660 books include anti-Japanese American political cartoons and cartoons depicting African Americans

00:20:17.220 for sale captioned with offensive language. This according to the LCPS, uh, given this research

00:20:22.500 and LCPS's focus on equity and culturally responsive instruction, LCPS provided this guidance to schools

00:20:28.620 during the past couple of years to not connect read across America day exclusively with Dr. Seuss's

00:20:32.860 books. So that's the, um, that's the claim, at least as it pertains to the school systems and read

00:20:38.000 across America that, well, they're not, they're not canceling the books. They're just de-emphasizing

00:20:42.440 them, which read as canceling them, but it goes beyond the school systems. So here's the latest,

00:20:48.320 um, from mediaite. This is what they report. The official organization that controls the legacy of

00:20:56.380 Dr. Seuss has announced it will see sales of six of the author's children's books over racist and

00:21:01.080 insensitive depictions. In a statement time for the late author's birthday, uh, Dr. Seuss Enterprises

00:21:07.320 told the Associated Press that the books, here are the books. And to think that I saw it on May,

00:21:12.040 on Mulberry street, if I ran the zoo, McElligott's pool on beyond zebra scrambled egg, super, and the cat's

00:21:20.380 quizzer will no longer be published due to hurtful depictions in the books. So we've got the school

00:21:26.680 system, but then also Dr. Seuss Enterprises, the people that control Dr. Seuss's legacy, control

00:21:34.580 his, uh, control everything. They're throwing them under the bus too. They're, they're, they're taking

00:21:41.320 part in the metaphorical book burning. That's how bad it's gotten. You know, I see all of this now

00:21:47.100 that Dr. Seuss and of course, Dr. Seuss is canceled. Listen, some of us have been, have been warning you

00:21:52.660 about this for, for years now. Um, it, every they're coming for everybody, everybody. If you

00:22:01.500 were a prominent person, an author, historical figure, a politician, anything, and it's someone

00:22:08.960 who existed. Well, I, I used to say it was like, if it was, if you, if you existed 40 years ago or

00:22:16.420 earlier, you're going to be canceled, but now we could probably move that up and say, if you existed

00:22:21.180 20 years ago or earlier, 10 years ago, everyone's going to get it. Of course, they're going to come

00:22:27.880 for Dr. Seuss. And yeah, if you go back in history, you go back to people, author, it doesn't matter.

00:22:35.620 Anyone who lived 60 years ago, 70, 80, 90 years ago. Yes. They're going to have views

00:22:43.480 that are not acceptable by our modern standards. And if they were prominent people, they'll probably

00:22:51.140 have expressed those views in some form. That's the case for everyone. There was not a person who

00:23:00.000 lived 80 years ago who did not have at least one viewpoint that people in modern society,

00:23:08.120 especially on the left would recoil in heart if they heard. Not, not, not a single person

00:23:15.980 who lived even 80 years ago. You want to go back, you want to talk about 200 years ago or 300 years

00:23:21.440 ago, forget about it. So now they're coming for Dr. Seuss. And I do take this somewhat personally.

00:23:28.780 This is a cancellation that hits me, you know, a little bit more than some of the others,

00:23:33.920 because I've, I've, as a kid, I was a huge Dr. Seuss fan. I partially taught myself to read

00:23:39.180 using Dr. Seuss books. I was in, I was in the Dr. Seuss book club. I had all the books and everything,

00:23:44.020 um, with the, the cat in the hat book enders. And then I had, I had the whole, I had the whole

00:23:50.160 Dr. Seuss catalog up on the, up on our bookshelf in our house. And I would read, I loved Dr. Seuss as

00:23:54.960 a kid. My kids love Dr. Seuss. They're still going to love Dr. Seuss.

00:23:58.380 They're coming for him too. Now I, and you know, I have always said, if we are going to cancel Dr.

00:24:04.980 Seuss, um, it shouldn't be for racism. It should be, if anything, it should be for elder abuse with 0.73

00:24:11.240 the book hop on pop, because that is a really influential to kids. And I've read that to my

00:24:16.140 kids. And now because they've been brainwashed by that book, they think that anytime they see dad

00:24:21.880 laying on a couch, it doesn't matter. Uh, they can just run and jump right on me, 0.55

00:24:27.560 elbow, right to the gut. And I think it has a lot to do with that book. So if we're going to

00:24:32.740 cancel him, it should be for that. All right. Number three, former CIA director, John Brennan

00:24:36.700 has gone full critical race theory. Now, not a surprising development either, but here he is

00:24:41.400 on MSNBC. Let's listen. We started with Kate, Katie Benner's great new reporting about the

00:24:46.860 investigation to police officer. It renders, you know, at best hypocritical at worst cynical and

00:24:52.520 false. Any notion that the Republicans care about the lives and the safety of law enforcement.

00:24:57.560 Well, I must say to Claire's point, I'm increasingly embarrassed to be a white male

00:25:02.700 these days in light of what I see of my other white male saying, but it just shows that with

00:25:08.880 the, with very few exceptions, like Mitt Romney, Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, there are so few

00:25:14.740 Republicans in Congress who value truth, honesty, and integrity. And so they'll continue to gaslight

00:25:21.140 the country the way that Donald Trump did. And the fact that this has such security and safety

00:25:26.820 implications for the American public and for the members of Congress, again, as Claire said,

00:25:32.420 it is just a disgusting display of craven politics that really should have no place in the United

00:25:38.440 States in 2021. Yeah. He's embarrassed to be a white male. Well, I got to tell you, John,

00:25:43.960 feelings mutual. We, we, we feel the same, same way about you. We feel ashamed of you. You ridiculous

00:25:50.220 goober. What does it, what does it tell you that these are the kinds of people we had running our

00:25:55.040 law enforcement agencies, the CIA, you know, these kinds of people, these empty suits, these big fat

00:26:03.520 nothings. You're embarrassed to be a white male. What, what does that mean? You, you would never hear

00:26:13.300 anyone of any other race ever say anything like that. You'd never hear it.

00:26:20.720 Never hear it. But with, with, with, but if you want to be on MSNBC and you're a white male,

00:26:27.120 well, then that's the sort of token, um, atonement you're supposed to, uh, supposed to, supposed to

00:26:33.360 offer, supposed to display to show how ashamed you are. I mean, eventually that's going to be a

00:26:41.860 prerequisite for employment at a place like MSNBC. If you're a white male, even getting the door,

00:26:48.720 you have to apologize for being one. And I always think what these guys, John Brennan is however old,

00:26:56.120 old he is. He's an old guy. Um, and here he is sounding like a, uh, you know, a 19 year old girl

00:27:05.640 in a gender studies class bought into critical race theory. I'm embarrassed to be a white male

00:27:12.040 at his age. You're supposed to get firmer and more stubborn in your old age, but you've got these,

00:27:21.940 these Democrats at their old age, they're buying into all this stuff because they are again,

00:27:29.420 nothings. They have nothing going on inside. Empty shells. All right. Number four, this is another

00:27:35.460 one. Um, kind of a, uh, related to our priorities. So this is the, who is this? The New York post says

00:27:43.860 Lady Gaga's dog Walker, who was shot while out for a stroll with the stars, French bulldogs in Los

00:27:50.100 Angeles, penned an emotional social media post on Monday morning, describing the ambush and thanking

00:27:55.160 the star for her support. Ryan Fisher, uh, 39 years old. He wrote this, he wrote on Instagram.

00:28:00.580 It was a lengthy thing. He started talking about, uh, when he was walking the Lady Gaga's dogs and the

00:28:07.100 gunman cut came, shot him and he's laying, it's a horrible story. He's laying in a pool of his own

00:28:12.480 blood and he was, he was in the hospital. He's recovering now. He was on a breathing tube. I think

00:28:17.320 he's off of the breathing tube now. Um, but this story, you know, I first saw this story about Lady

00:28:24.480 Gaga's dogs getting kidnapped last week. And I thought, who, who cares? And what does it tell you

00:28:33.060 that? It took like five days for anyone to even ask, what about the human being who got shot?

00:28:39.320 Can we hear an update on this guy? All the headlines and everything, everyone that was so

00:28:44.840 concerned, it was all about the dogs getting, who cares? Yeah, I'm concerned about the person.

00:28:51.560 Turns out the person is going to be okay. It looks like, thank God.

00:28:57.140 This is one of those, it just shows me how little I understand, I guess the American public at this

00:29:01.480 point, because if, if I, if someone had come to me with the scoop on that story, if I had, let's say

00:29:07.760 a source in law enforcement in Beverly Hills or wherever this was, uh, and, and they came to me

00:29:13.680 and they said, Hey, listen, we got, uh, Lady Gaga's dogs are just, we're just kidnapped. We're just dog

00:29:18.400 napped. Big story. Um, you know, you, you could break the story. I would have said, no, I'm not going

00:29:23.140 to, I would have just tossed that one in the trash bin. I would have tossed that tip in the trash bin. 0.67

00:29:27.480 I would have figured that nobody would care. What to say? What? Her dogs were kidnapped. So

00:29:32.080 am I going to, that's not breaking news. I would have lost that. You know, that could have been

00:29:38.880 something that made my journalistic career. If I had got that story, um, people cared a lot.

00:29:45.060 Even on Drudge Report, this was the big story. Sirens blaring. Lady Gaga's dogs were kidnapped.

00:29:51.760 Who? Of all the things. If I were to make a list, what day did that happen? Last Thursday?

00:30:00.780 If I were to make a list of, of every news item from last Thursday and rank it by importance,

00:30:06.740 Lady Gaga's dogs getting canceled would literally be the very last item on that list. 0.76

00:30:11.580 All right. Um, but the dogs were recovered by the way, if you're concerned about that. So the dogs

00:30:18.400 are okay. Person was shot. Um, and that's that story. All right. Number five, the Daily Mail has

00:30:25.280 this says work is due to start on the world's first space hotel in low earth orbit in 2025. And it will

00:30:31.720 come equipped with restaurants, a cinema spa and rooms for 400 people developed by the orbital assembly

00:30:37.840 corporation. The Voyager station could be operational as early as 2027 with the infrastructure built in

00:30:43.540 orbit around the earth. That seems a little bit optimistic to me, but they're hoping to have,

00:30:49.160 they're hoping to have a, a space hotel fully operational in the next seven years.

00:30:55.700 My only question is how much would it cost to have a pizza delivered to your room?

00:31:00.920 Sorry. I just read this story just for that joke. The whole story was leading up to that bad joke.

00:31:04.760 And I apologize for that, but that's all I have to say about that. That's it.

00:31:07.840 All right. Let's go to a reading the comments. Now this is from Anna. She says,

00:31:12.020 we know that public schools have failed us because apparently the only historic event anyone ever

00:31:15.700 learned was about world war two. Can anyone ever come up with a historic reference from any other

00:31:20.300 time period is exactly what that's the only thing that offends me about the constant Nazi comparisons

00:31:25.740 is just how there are so many other historical events. And oftentimes the thing you're comparing to

00:31:33.080 the Nazis, there is a historical analog. It's just not that. So I agree with you. Uh, Jonathan says,

00:31:41.520 came for Ben, laughed with Klavan, learned a little from Knowles, staying sane with Matt.

00:31:46.940 So you're saying you don't laugh with me or learn from me?

00:31:49.020 You're banned from the show. How dare you? Um, I'm so damn Gucci says, Matt, this may be unrelated,

00:31:57.140 but I want to know what do you think about amateur predator catching groups? I guess child predator

00:32:01.900 catching groups. And if their evidence should be allowed in a court of law? Uh, yeah, I'm in,

00:32:08.500 there's probably no measure being taken against child predators that I would object to.

00:32:14.160 And there are a lot of measures not being taken right now that if they were taken,

00:32:19.380 I also would not object to. So, um, um, I'm, I'm fine with it. Whatever, whatever can be done

00:32:24.360 to bring these scumbags down is cool with me. Uh, Johan Broham says, I think that Matt Walsh would

00:32:30.520 be a fantastic press secretary, Matt Walsh, press secretary, 2024. I would be terrible at that job.

00:32:35.500 I would be, I would be worse than Jen Psaki. Um, which maybe that's what you mean by great is that you

00:32:42.880 would enjoy watching me. You would enjoy watching the, uh, crap show up on, up on your screen every

00:32:50.380 day. So if that's what you mean, then I guess you're right. Vincent Andrews says, Matt, you're

00:32:54.120 not going to read this comment. Are you? No, I'm not. Um, and stabby troll, a lot of great usernames

00:33:00.880 today. Stabby troll says, stop, please stop telling people that the leftists call everything Nazi

00:33:05.500 without explaining every single time that they call others Nazis to hide the fact that they are Nazis.

00:33:10.400 It just makes people who don't know the insurgency tactics feel bad and believe them.

00:33:15.260 This is exactly, there's a nice bookend here, a nice symmetry first comment to the last because

00:33:20.640 you stabby troll are demonstrating what was observed, uh, astutely by the person in the first comment

00:33:25.840 that no, the leftists are not Nazis. There's many things you can say about them. Many bad things,

00:33:31.980 many criticisms you can offer. I spend all day, every day offering those criticisms,

00:33:35.240 uh, but they're not Nazis. No, they have very little, there's very little comparison that could

00:33:42.280 be made. I mean, a few things, both leftists and Nazis were both environmentalists, for example,

00:33:48.600 big into animal rights, um, if nobody else's rights, but no, there's, there's no, there's no

00:33:53.580 real comparison. Um, so we, and it's, it's not about, you know, being offended. It's just,

00:33:59.500 if you're looking for historical analogies, find one that makes sense because the, the only thing

00:34:06.800 you mean by that, when you say they're the Nazis, what you mean is Nazis are bad and leftists are

00:34:13.820 bad. And so they're the same, but that's not right. Even if you want to go back to what there's,

00:34:22.080 there's a better comparisons to be made between leftists and like the Soviets. If you want to go

00:34:28.580 back to that period in history and look for an analog, then I think that's where you would want

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00:36:43.220 So we begin today with the streaming platform Twitch. As I understand it, Twitch is a place where

00:36:47.780 people play video games and other people watch those people playing video games. I find this

00:36:53.040 concept utterly mystifying. I mean, this is what I'm up against. You understand it was, it was hard

00:36:56.460 enough for me to wrap my head around why anyone plays video games to begin with. Now I, now I have

00:37:00.280 to try to understand why people not only play them, but watch other people play them. I mean,

00:37:05.680 what's next? Will you listen to a podcast where someone describes themselves playing a video game in

00:37:10.040 real time? Unless that's already a thing. Is that already a thing? Please tell me that's not already a

00:37:16.160 thing, but we can, we can return to that issue another time. I guess the reason Twitch is appearing

00:37:20.800 in the daily cancellation for this episode is a tweet they sent out yesterday in honor of women's

00:37:25.280 history month. This is just to emphasize women's history month. If you didn't know that coming up 0.99

00:37:30.940 in a week, March 8th is also international women's day. And that falls in the middle of international

00:37:36.320 women's week. So it will be women's day during women's week during women's month. And I'm still 0.97

00:37:42.220 concerned that we may not be appreciating women enough. I think we need maybe a women's hour. 0.96

00:37:46.980 A women's hour on women's day during women's week and women's month. 0.94

00:37:50.780 This is how we will defeat sexism once and for all. Now Twitch tried to do their part. They tweeted,

00:37:55.920 quote, join us in celebrating and supporting all the women creating their own worlds,

00:38:00.640 building their communities and leading the way on Twitch. Seems pretty standard. The problem is that

00:38:05.960 they spelled women with an X. Wimixin, which is, I guess how that's supposed to be pronounced.

00:38:11.300 And this is supposed to be the gender-neutral trans-inclusionary spelling of women, similar

00:38:16.460 to Latinx, the gender-neutral trans-inclusionary spelling of Latino, and Spaghettiics, which is the

00:38:23.200 gender-neutral trans-inclusionary spelling of SpaghettiOs. And you can go on and on.

00:38:27.080 But Twitch's inclusionary gambit didn't pay off. There was massive backlash to it, not from the

00:38:32.060 right, but from the left. Thousands of leftists complain that Wimixin, though intended to include

00:38:38.140 trans people, actually excludes them. Trans women are women, as the claim goes. If you change the word

00:38:44.160 women to include them, then you're not really including them at all. And of course they're 1.00

00:38:48.780 right. It's sort of like if you're a kid and some other kids have a group they call the Best

00:38:52.260 Friends Club, and you ask if you can join it, so they say sure, but then they change the name to

00:38:57.420 the Casual Acquaintances Club. I mean, it's nice that they're trying to bring you into the fold,

00:39:02.120 but the message they send by changing the name is that they aren't really bringing you into the

00:39:05.360 fold at all, at least not the same one that you wanted to be in. So a similar thing is happening

00:39:09.520 here, but of course, that's not the problem with adding X to women. The problem is not that it makes 1.00

00:39:15.160 trans people feel singled out. I mean, just adding trans to women already does that. The very word 0.95

00:39:21.380 trans already makes clear that trans women are not the same as actual women. If they were, 1.00

00:39:26.240 we'd just call them women. The very fact that you have to say the phrase, trans women are women,

00:39:31.360 tells me that they aren't. In any case, none of that is the point. The point and the problem with

00:39:37.700 Wemixen is that it's gibberish. So is Latinx. So are the new pronouns that get shoved into the lexicon

00:39:45.100 every day. This is all gibberish, and that's the problem with it. The left objected to Wemixen

00:39:51.360 while still not objecting to Latinx or any similar innovation, not because it's invented gibberish,

00:39:57.920 but because it is invented gibberish that didn't have the political and ideological effect that

00:40:02.360 they intended. That's a very different sort of criticism. My issue, my criticism with people

00:40:08.100 speaking gibberish is simply that it is gibberish. And gibberish, when we're forced to pretend that it's

00:40:12.940 not gibberish, is an assault on human language. Now, the defense usually offered for this kind of thing

00:40:19.720 is that language evolves, right? People sound different today than they did 50 years ago or

00:40:24.080 100 years ago and so on. Words change meaning over time. New words, new expressions are adopted.

00:40:31.220 It's the evolution of language. And it's true that language does evolve, but Latinx is not a product

00:40:37.660 of evolution. Neither is Wemixen. These are changes that are engineered artificially and for expressly 0.98

00:40:45.360 ideological reasons. It is not evolution, but design, though perhaps not very intelligent design.

00:40:51.720 Normally, language evolves so that different people in different eras can better express their meaning

00:40:56.360 and better be understood. But these artificial changes have the opposite effect and intent.

00:41:01.920 They make speech less clear, meaning more obscured. And that's why it should be opposed.

00:41:07.960 Not for the reason that the left opposed this particular change, but for the real reason that it is simply

00:41:14.520 gibberish. But Twitch somehow managed to attract the ire of both left and right. I mean, they managed to be

00:41:21.200 so aggressively stupid and hopelessly woke that even their fellow maniacs recoiled. And if that's not worthy

00:41:26.540 of cancellation, then I don't know what is. And so Twitch is officially canceled. And also because, look,

00:41:35.360 what are you doing sitting around watching other people play video games? Like, read a book. Go for a

00:41:39.820 jog. Okay? Go climb a tree or something. Either way, Twitch is canceled. Okay, we'll leave it there.

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