The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 697 - The “Influencers” Who Prey On Your Children

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, one of the most famous and influential YouTube stars on the 0.91

00:00:04.080 planet is allegedly a sex predator who preys on young boys. Not a huge surprise, but it does 0.71

00:00:09.200 raise a question. Do you know what your kids are doing online and who they're being influenced by?

00:00:15.060 Also, five headlines, including Joe Biden's gun control push, another shocking twist in an

00:00:19.720 alleged hate crime case, and a Republican legislator sparks controversy by comparing

00:00:25.040 abortion to slavery. But is he right? Well, yes, he is. I'll explain why. Plus our daily

00:00:29.740 cancellation, reading the comments, and much more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:01:50.320 Since the advent of modern media, you know, it's been a challenge for parents to keep track

00:01:55.720 of the celebrities and public figures who are influencing their children. I was a kid in the

00:01:59.700 90s, and it wasn't easy for our parents. But at least back then, an adult who wanted to know what

00:02:06.000 the kids are into these days always knew basically where to look. All they had to do was turn on MTV

00:02:10.300 or a handful of other cable channels, and they could get a view of pop culture basically in its

00:02:16.380 entirety. They may not have liked what they found, but I know that my dad certainly didn't. But what

00:02:22.940 they found on TV was pretty much all there was, right, as far as pop culture goes. For the most

00:02:28.940 part, they didn't have to worry that there was more weirder and darker stuff lurking out there

00:02:34.240 somewhere in the shadows. The situation is very different now. Pop culture is more ubiquitous,

00:02:41.200 but also more spread out, more obscure, harder for a parent to get a handle on. And kids spend

00:02:48.460 much more of their time, much more of their time absorbed in it, like pretty much every second of

00:02:54.280 their day in many cases, absorbed in it. They may still watch a little bit of traditional TV or maybe

00:02:59.220 not, probably not, but most of their time certainly is spent online. And in every sphere where they go,

00:03:05.000 YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, including websites that I probably don't

00:03:09.140 even know about, there are these celebrity-like figures who now just go by the title influencer

00:03:14.940 because literally their only job is to influence the audience. That's kids today. They live in a

00:03:21.380 world run by content creators and influencers. And think about those titles. The ambiguity of those

00:03:28.000 titles is the point because it doesn't matter what the content is. The point simply is to make content,

00:03:33.900 any content and influence. It's not like the influence is a by-product of the music they're

00:03:40.140 making or the art they're producing. Now there still are singers and other artists who are also

00:03:44.500 influencing, but for people who are just influenced, that's all they do. Nothing else. They don't create

00:03:50.860 anything. They don't do anything. They simply, their only job is to influence. And a lot of times

00:03:54.600 they're influencing your kid. Now influence to what end? In what direction? Well, that often depends on

00:04:01.180 the corporate sponsors backing these people. The challenge for parents is that these influencers

00:04:05.760 rise to prominence quickly, seemingly out of nowhere, sometimes falling out of favor as rapidly

00:04:11.180 as they rose into it, like a, like sort of like quarks popping in and out of existence. For parents,

00:04:16.940 it's like an infinite game of whack-a-mole. The result is that if your child spends a lot of time

00:04:21.780 online, there are going to be influencers influencing them that you haven't even heard of, despite the fact

00:04:26.900 that they're massively popular, wealthy, and backed by the biggest brands in the world.

00:04:30.380 A kid in the sixties had, you know, the Beatles. The kid today has a million different versions of

00:04:35.880 the Beatles in a million different places. And all of them have direct sustained and sometimes

00:04:41.660 personal access to him. So that's all a long preamble to bring up the name James Charles.

00:04:48.020 I've mentioned him on the show before. I mentioned him again yesterday on Twitter for a reason that

00:04:52.820 I'll explain in just a moment. But to prove my point, a large number of my followers, many of whom

00:04:57.380 are older, and when I say older, I mean like my age, told me that they had never heard of the guy

00:05:02.520 and had no idea why I would bring up such an obscure, irrelevant figure. Well, James Charles

00:05:08.380 is a YouTube and Instagram influencer. He has 25 million subscribers on YouTube. 25 million.

00:05:16.960 Think about that. 27 million Instagram followers. He's also been sponsored by or worked with a number

00:05:23.380 of major multi-million dollar brands, starting with CoverGirl back in 2016. Charles is specifically

00:05:30.080 a beauty influencer. He models makeup. And as we're told, or we were told with great fanfare a few years

00:05:37.600 ago, he was the first male CoverGirl in history, which was supposed to be a big deal. He's also

00:05:45.060 allegedly a sex predator. Charles, who's a 21-year-old man, has been repeatedly accused of sexting, 0.82

00:05:50.940 sending nude pictures to, and trying to solicit sex from, a series of underage boys.

00:05:55.640 The accusations have come from boys as young as 14. Now, Charles, in an apology video posted to

00:06:01.500 YouTube a few days ago, confessed actually to messaging a couple of these alleged victims,

00:06:08.000 in this case, a couple of 16-year-old boys, by far not the only boys to have accused him.

00:06:12.680 But he confessed to having messaged them. But he also said that he didn't know their age. And after

00:06:17.100 some self-reflection and, quote, research, he decided that he shouldn't be involved with them.

00:06:23.200 Let's listen to that.

00:06:23.880 Within the past couple of weeks, two different people, both under the age of 18, have recently

00:06:28.320 come forward saying that they had inappropriate messages with me on social media. One of them

00:06:32.420 being from last year and one of them being from more recent. In both of these cases, I added these

00:06:36.540 people on Snapchat, asked how old they were right away, was told that they were 18, believed them,

00:06:41.800 engaged in a flirty conversation, and then later on, found out that they were actually 16. Upon finding

00:06:47.020 out, I was immediately embarrassed and blocked both people. Later on, when I saw them making videos

00:06:51.960 about it and those videos going viral, my immediate reaction, completely honestly, was to be really,

00:06:57.720 really upset. I wanted to get on camera and film another No More Lies video where I gather all my

00:07:02.520 receipts and all my screenshots and try to tell my side of the story and then just move on from the

00:07:06.080 situation. And now, looking back, that was so stupid. Because as I did more research on these topics 1.00

00:07:12.440 and self-reflected, I realized that the receipts and the screenshots and the specific details of the 0.60

00:07:19.780 interaction really don't matter because I f***ed up. He did some research. He had to do some research

00:07:26.060 to find out about, you know, whether he should be messaging underage boys, I guess. I don't know.

00:07:32.220 Now, as I said, those are only two of the accusations and not even the most serious ones.

00:07:38.880 In that same video, he also justified his actions on the basis that he's lonely and desperate.

00:07:43.100 In the past, he's admitted publicly that he's not attracted to older guys.

00:07:50.340 Although he did say, you know, he likes them younger, but he said only down to 18, he said.

00:07:54.960 During an appearance on the Impulsive podcast, another really popular thing that your kid probably

00:07:59.460 listens to and you may not have heard of, he seemingly admitted that he has on multiple

00:08:04.360 occasions at least attempted to fly high school boys out to meet him. Let's listen to that.

00:08:11.180 Talk to guys that live in different states and stuff. And I'm like, hey, like, why don't

00:08:14.460 you come visit? Like, well, I can't afford a plane ticket. That's like, okay, well, I

00:08:17.380 can. So like get on the plane and like, well, I just don't really feel comfortable with that.

00:08:20.840 But like, I love you and I really want to be together. And I'm like, well, we can't be

00:08:24.100 together because you can't afford a plane ticket. You're probably still in either high

00:08:26.960 school or college, a senior in high school or in college. So either you accept the flight

00:08:31.240 and realize that like, this is what I'm bringing to the relationship so we can spend time

00:08:34.960 together if you actually care about me or we literally never meet because you can't afford it.

00:08:41.180 That's the closest thing to an admission of a felony sex crime that you're likely to ever

00:08:45.620 hear on a podcast. At least I hope. So this is a man multiply accused of soliciting sex from

00:08:52.540 children who has come very close to confessing to the charge on multiple occasions publicly

00:08:56.680 in front of an audience of millions. And yet he remains on YouTube. His videos are still

00:09:02.500 monetized. As far as I know, he hasn't even been suspended. His corporate backers, sponsors,

00:09:08.300 affiliates have almost all remained silent and he's got a lot of them. There's little

00:09:12.880 media coverage of the scandal, little public outrage. It's not hard to see why. Charles was

00:09:19.780 hailed by the left and the media five years ago when he became the historic world's first

00:09:23.980 cover boy, right? And he's a, you know, he's a, he's a homosexual man celebrated for breaking 0.99

00:09:30.640 gender barriers and so on. Now for this man to also be a sex predator and for the left and the media to 0.98

00:09:39.340 be responsible for putting him in a position to prey on boys. Well, that's just untenable. 0.95

00:09:44.840 They can never accept that or admit to it ever, especially because people like, like me, you know,

00:09:52.360 the backwards old fashioned types. We took one look at this guy and immediately said that he clearly

00:09:59.040 has serious issues. We were labeled bigots for that. I mean, the left can never admit that we

00:10:06.200 were right because then they'd have to ask why we were right. How could we have been right?

00:10:14.620 I mean, why is it that some of us would look at James Charles, listen to him for five seconds

00:10:21.140 and come to the conclusion that he has to put up mildly issues. Why is it, uh, why is it that those

00:10:29.880 of us who knew about this guy and then heard that he's trying to pick up young boys, why is it that

00:10:37.020 we would respond by saying, well, yeah, you know, no surprise there. How, how did we come to that

00:10:44.300 conclusion? This is a dangerous conversation for the left and one they don't want to have.

00:10:49.200 They want us to believe it's entirely healthy and a laudable thing for a man to reject his 0.99

00:10:55.000 masculinity to this extent. Those of us who say that it is perhaps a troubling sign, a sign of

00:11:02.080 something unhealthy psychologically are labeled bigots and phobes of various sorts. We can't,

00:11:09.660 we can't be allowed to have been right. That can't be permitted. So they'll just ignore it.

00:11:15.980 James Charles will continue preying on children. Allegedly. He'll continue being an enormously

00:11:22.200 influential figure, maybe even influential to your own children, unless you step in between

00:11:29.720 to protect your kids from these predators and degenerates, which you should. And I hope you do.

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00:13:22.900 yesterday some measures that he would be taking for gun control. And, uh, you know, actually a

00:13:30.500 little bit of a, a little bit of a personal tie in here. I should, I should mention that, um, I did

00:13:35.280 go out yesterday and buy a gun myself. Figured it was, you know, good, good time to do that. Uh,

00:13:40.940 especially with all these with, with Joe Biden in office. And, um, you know, I have to say,

00:13:45.380 aside from the fact that I had to show an ID and give lots of personal information and fill out a

00:13:53.860 questionnaire about my mental health and a criminal history and wait for the background check to clear

00:13:58.740 and pay hundreds of dollars. It was so much easier than voting except for all of those things. It was

00:14:04.160 so much easier than voting except for all of the things that made it way more difficult than voting.

00:14:09.320 It was a lot easier. That was just my experience though. Um, and, and that of course is I'm in

00:14:17.360 Tennessee, you know, in many other States, it's going to be, uh, to getting a gun is far more

00:14:22.640 difficult than that. And you'd have to wait a lot more than, than, uh, than a few minutes for the

00:14:26.500 background check to clear. Anyway, Joe Biden announced executive orders to enact gun control.

00:14:30.800 Fox has some details about that. Uh, it says an administration official detailed the actions to

00:14:35.100 reporters on Wednesday. Among them, Biden is asking the justice department to propose within a month,

00:14:39.120 a, within a month, a rule to stop quote unquote ghost guns, which are kits people can buy legally

00:14:46.480 to assemble a functioning firearm that does not have a serial number. Biden is also asking the DOJ

00:14:51.720 to propose within 60 days. Yeah. By the way, I'm sure that, um, your average criminal looking to

00:14:58.260 commit a crime is taking the time to assemble their own gun, right? I'm sure that's what's happening

00:15:03.020 in most cases. Biden is also asking the DOJ to propose within 60 days, a rule on braces

00:15:08.840 used for handguns, which make them more accurate to propose action on community violence intervention,

00:15:14.300 to publish suggestions for red flag legislation, and is asking his administration to issue a report

00:15:19.960 on gun trafficking. So those are all the things that he's thinking of doing. Um, and a lot of it is

00:15:26.600 purposefully vague, like there's more to come. So we're not, we're not told everything that's going

00:15:32.700 to happen here. And that's part of the point here is Joe Biden announcing this and talking

00:15:36.440 specifically about the constitutional concerns and then promptly dismissing all of those concerns.

00:15:41.240 Let's listen. Today, we're taking steps to confront not just the gun crisis, but what is actually a

00:15:48.580 public health crisis. Nothing, nothing I'm about to recommend in any way impinges on the second

00:15:56.020 amendment. There are phony arguments suggesting that these are second amendment rights at stake from

00:16:01.640 what we're talking about. But no amendment, no amendment to the constitution is absolute.

00:16:08.660 You can't yell crowd, you can't yell fire in a crowded movie theater. We call it freedom of speech.

00:16:14.020 From the very beginning, you couldn't own any weapon you wanted to own. From the very beginning

00:16:18.580 of the second amendment existed, certain people weren't allowed to have weapons. So the idea is just

00:16:24.020 bizarre to suggest that some of the things we're recommending are contrary to the constitution.

00:16:28.960 Gun violence in this country is an epidemic. Let me say it again. Gun violence in this country is an

00:16:37.020 epidemic. And it's an international embarrassment. You can't yell crowd in a fired movie theater.

00:16:44.800 He actually trotted out that old thing. Yeah, you have to remember when you're hearing a Democrat talk

00:16:51.020 about the constitution, they are very, very selective in the way that they choose to interpret it and

00:16:58.940 which amendments are absolute and which aren't. These are simply not serious people when it comes

00:17:05.600 to constitutional interpretation or anything else. Keep in mind that these are the same people,

00:17:10.660 Joe Biden among them, who would tell you and have told you and insisted upon this for the last four

00:17:16.480 decades that the constitution guarantees the right to abortion. Even though abortion is not

00:17:26.580 mentioned in the constitution or hinted at or referenced or, or there is, there is no language

00:17:33.400 at all in the constitution that comes anywhere close to abortion. And yet they'll say the constitution

00:17:39.540 absolutely guarantees a right to abortion. And they, they, they hinge that, that right on the

00:17:50.360 constitutional right to privacy, even though that's also not in the constitution, the word privacy

00:17:57.820 doesn't appear. So they have located the right to abortion, um, which does not exist in the

00:18:06.040 constitution in the right to privacy, which also does not exist. And yet they can do all of that fancy

00:18:12.380 footwork and all of those maneuvers and they could pull out their decoder pen and, you know, they're

00:18:17.600 looking at the invisible ink and they're putting things together and they're, they're, they're

00:18:21.880 approaching it like a word search. They're circling cert. Oh, there's an A here. Look, a B O R. You 1.00

00:18:27.300 see, it's all coming together. They can do that for abortion. And yet somehow the second amendment,

00:18:33.000 which is perhaps the clearest amendment, uh, in the entire document that doesn't guarantee the right

00:18:40.820 to bear arms with that, all of a sudden now they're saying, well, what's the original intent? And

00:18:47.420 now you care about original intent. What do you think the founding fathers originally intended to

00:18:53.720 codify, uh, the right to kill your, your baby in the womb? Was that their original intent?

00:19:02.840 Uh, Joe Biden also makes a series of just straight up false claims. Well, like we always get one of

00:19:08.500 them, of course, being this claim, I don't think he says it here. He probably, he might have, but, uh,

00:19:13.300 uh, one of them, of course, the claim about it's harder to get a gun than vote. Totally false. Here's

00:19:17.940 a false claim that he said this time, um, about, uh, how easy it is allegedly to get a gun at a gun

00:19:23.000 show. Let's listen. These bills one require background checks for anyone purchasing a gun at a gun show

00:19:30.960 or an online sale. Most people don't know it. You walk into a store and you buy a gun, you have a

00:19:39.960 background check, but you go to a gun show, you can buy whatever you want and no background check.

00:19:46.940 Most people don't know that because it's not true. You know, there's a lot of things that,

00:19:51.060 that most people don't know. Most, most people don't know that, uh, cows can fly to the moon.

00:19:58.720 A cow can fly to the moon. Most people don't know that when you make up facts, you can always

00:20:04.220 make up facts that people don't know. It's a lot of fun actually. No, that's not, that's, uh, not

00:20:10.400 true at all. I wish it were. That'd be a lot of fun. I wish I could just walk into a gun show,

00:20:14.900 get any gun I want. Maybe they hand you an AR-15 walking in the door for free, you know, or it's

00:20:21.920 like a, it's a, uh, when I used to go to birthday parties as a kid, they'd give you these party bags

00:20:26.240 on the way out the door, you know, cause all the kids had to get, we were the participation

00:20:31.720 trophy generation. So all the kids had to get gifts at a birthday party. Otherwise it wouldn't 1.00

00:20:35.500 be fair. Anyway, I wish there was a, uh, like a gift bag when you leave the gun show, got an AR-15

00:20:40.620 in there, you know, that would be fun, but that's not how it works. Uh, it's not true at all. And Jen

00:20:46.980 Psaki was asked about this like 30 minutes later about this, that you just heard Joe Biden say that,

00:20:52.920 right? And here's Jen Psaki denying that Joe Biden said the thing that we all just heard him say.

00:20:59.420 President said a moment ago, quote, you go to a gun show, you can buy whatever you want. No background

00:21:06.000 check. Is there a special exemption in federal law that he was referring to or just do FLA dealers

00:21:12.220 not have to do background checks when they're at a gun show? All right. Are you asking me if he was

00:21:17.860 referring, no, it's okay. Were you asking me if he was referring to like a specific circumstance or I'm

00:21:22.520 sorry to tell me a little bit more about your question. I mean, is it the president's belief

00:21:26.200 that you do not have to undergo a background check when you are at a gun show? No, it's not

00:21:31.840 his belief. He believes that gun, that background checks should be universal. Right. He says no

00:21:36.860 background check. Well, we know what his position is, right? So let me reiterate that, which is that,

00:21:42.160 uh, got background checks or something that should be universal. They're supported by more than 80%

00:21:47.420 of the public. He supported legislation, advocated for that, um, and, uh, advocated against loopholes

00:21:53.580 as well. So that's his position. And I appreciate you asking for the clarification.

00:21:57.540 You can always tell when Jen Psaki is about to lie because her, her tell is, um, that she acts

00:22:03.760 confused by a really basic straightforward question. That's when, you know, she's geared because her, 0.86

00:22:10.180 she's trying to think of what the lie is going to be. And she's buying a little bit of time.

00:22:13.060 I don't blame her. It is a tough job. I would think. Um, and why a person with a soul and

00:22:19.720 integrity probably shouldn't, shouldn't accept it to, to be a white house spokesperson. And you

00:22:25.400 know, you're gonna have to get up there and lie every single day. So this is her tell. She acts

00:22:29.800 like she's confused. So she's asked, uh, well, the president Biden just said that you need a

00:22:35.960 background. You don't need a background check at a gun show. Is that true? What do you mean? I don't

00:22:40.100 understand your question. Could you rephrase it? I'm, I'm trying to understand. I really

00:22:43.800 want to understand. I just don't understand that, that question you just asked. And then

00:22:47.640 she says that, no, he doesn't believe that. So he, he lied then. She bought herself time

00:22:52.260 to tell her lie. And it wasn't even a very good one because what she said is no, uh, but

00:22:56.400 the president doesn't believe that he doesn't believe what he said. Huh? What's, what do we

00:23:01.420 call that? Well, you say something that you don't believe. Um, what is that? It's a lie.

00:23:07.300 Right. Okay. Well, thanks for clarifying that Jen. All right. Number two, there were reports

00:23:13.300 speaking of lies reports last week about racist graffiti, the good old racist graffiti gambit,

00:23:18.380 um, racist graffiti found around campus at a college called Albion college in Michigan.

00:23:25.500 The graffiti said, here's what the graffiti said. Um, KKK white power die. N words, please. 0.98

00:23:33.720 And, um, we do exist KKK. And then there was a star of David with a, with the number six,

00:23:43.000 six, six written across it. I guess it was supposed to be an antisemitic thing. Um, now

00:23:47.380 this was a big deal locally. Got a lot of attention. The students protested. We got some footage

00:23:51.720 of that. They're pretty long line of them. This is a small college, but it looks like they

00:23:56.220 all came out. Look at them all, all marching. They all came out to March against racism on campus.

00:24:02.720 Um,

00:24:03.720 Uh, and then what is it? I don't, I don't have to tell you what happens next. Do I,

00:24:07.680 you already know you heard racist graffiti. And if you, if you've been paying attention at all over

00:24:12.840 the last 10 years, you know exactly where this is headed. It was a hoax. It was a black student 1.00

00:24:16.540 that wrote the graffiti, you know, even without the, the, the history, even without knowing the 0.60

00:24:22.200 history, you probably would have already guessed that this is a hoax because this just isn't KKK white 0.64

00:24:28.240 power. Who do you think is, is going to sincerely write that? Even if it was a, an actual white 0.97

00:24:37.480 racist, like why would they write that? But as we've covered many times, you know, people who want

00:24:46.940 to invent hate crimes and turn themselves into a victim, they have, they have a lot of trouble doing

00:24:53.680 it persuasively and convincingly because they really have not encountered a lot of racism from

00:25:00.500 white people. So they don't even know what that would be like. They, you know, if, if, if, if racism

00:25:07.600 from white people was common in this country, number one, you wouldn't have to invent it.

00:25:11.340 You wouldn't have to make it up. And number two, if you did make it up, you would have encountered

00:25:18.080 it so often that you should be able to make it up and impersonate it convincingly.

00:25:25.560 But this is obviously someone who has never encountered a white racist in his entire life.

00:25:30.560 He has no idea what a white racist would say, which is good by the way. He's never encountered

00:25:34.960 one. That's a great thing. We should celebrate that. So instead he bases it off of like movies that

00:25:40.320 he saw in TV shows and stuff. That's one way that you know that it's a hoax. And the other way you

00:25:45.500 know it's a hoax is that as far as I can remember, and correct me if I'm wrong, I'll at least say

00:25:51.580 this. I cannot think in the last 20 years, I cannot think of a single case where so-called racist

00:25:57.820 graffiti or a racist note left on a receipt or left on someone's car windshield or slipped under their

00:26:03.820 door turned out to be sincere. Every single case that I can think of, they were all hoaxes. Has there been

00:26:12.260 even one real case? I'm assuming just a law of averages. There has to have been, right? The last 20 years

00:26:19.260 have to have been at least a couple of these racist graffiti cases that was actually done by a white

00:26:26.220 person. Maybe. Anyway, MLive has the report, says Albion College and the Albion Department of Public

00:26:34.400 Safety says that a student is responsible for racist graffiti found in a dorm last weekend. Albion

00:26:40.040 police brought the 21-year-old black male in for questioning on April 6th. The student admitted to

00:26:45.720 creating most of the graffiti and video evidence from Albion's campus safety department confirms the

00:26:50.040 statements made by the student. So I take it from that that he was on security camera footage. They

00:26:56.100 said video evidence confirms it. So I'm assuming that probably he was right in front of a

00:27:02.900 of security camera scrolling this thing. When it comes to hate crime hoaxes, they're really not

00:27:09.840 sending their best. But here's the response to this from Albion College. And I could be pronouncing

00:27:17.240 the name of the college wrong. Never heard of them before now. But here's what they tweeted. This is

00:27:21.600 this. They put they put this out. I think it was yesterday. This is after it was already known who was

00:27:25.540 responsible for this. And this is their tweet. OK, they said earlier today, we identified the

00:27:31.740 individual responsible for the racist and anti-Semitic graffiti in Mitchell Towers. The

00:27:36.260 student who was acting alone acknowledged their responsibility for these for these incidents.

00:27:39.980 They have been immediately removed from campus and placed on temporary suspension while we conduct

00:27:44.000 a full investigation as part of our student judicial process. But we know the acts of racism that have

00:27:49.260 occurred this week are not about one particular person or one particular incident. We know that there's a

00:27:53.500 significant history of racial pain and trauma on campus, and we're taking action to repair our

00:27:57.960 community. We will change and heal together as a community because we are committed to doing the

00:28:02.180 work. Right now, we encourage all members of our community to listen, respond and care for one

00:28:06.480 another and lean on the faculty, staff, community members who have been gathering today to make sure

00:28:10.560 we're supporting you. We have your back. OK. Aside from the normal tripe about we'll do the work.

00:28:17.020 We're committed. The phrase do the work has become to me as grating and annoying as the phrase lived

00:28:24.320 experience. And they're always said by the usually in the same sentence by the same sorts of people.

00:28:31.240 I'm surprised lived experience didn't appear in this statement here. We'll do the work to understand

00:28:36.400 your lived experience. But do you notice? So we got to do the work. We got the buzzwords and everything.

00:28:42.300 You notice what's missing from this statement? They never say it was a hoax. They never say that

00:28:49.260 it was a black student who did it. In fact, they intentionally give the impression that it was a 0.51

00:28:55.100 white student. They don't say that. But they tie all this into historic racism, racial trauma,

00:29:02.160 so on and so forth. They're clearly trying to give the impression without saying it that

00:29:08.460 the graffiti really was done by a white racist. That's the way the school has decided to handle 0.50

00:29:13.760 it. And if that doesn't work, then they will at least try to disperse the blame.

00:29:24.860 You know, it's we're not going to blame this one individual. We're going to blame the institutions.

00:29:29.360 This, this is not, this is not about one particular person. It's about a history of racial pain. No,

00:29:37.660 it is definitely about one particular person. It's about the guy who did it.

00:29:43.220 A guy who they say is kicked off a campus. That's good. He should also be charged with a crime.

00:29:48.720 You know, a hate crime hoax is a hate crime. I'm not a fan of the hate crime designation at all.

00:29:57.400 I don't think it should exist, but as long as it does, it should be used equally and in a way

00:30:00.900 that's at least sort of coherent. And what that means is that a hate crime hoax should be considered

00:30:05.240 a hate crime. It's, it is a hate crime against the group of people that you're trying to frame.

00:30:13.620 That's what it's a hate crime against. So a black student putting that graffiti up, 0.62

00:30:19.800 pretending that a white racist did it, that is a hate crime against white students. 0.96

00:30:22.380 He is trying to inflame hatred towards the white students and guilt by association. He's trying to, 0.93

00:30:31.760 um, to, you know, uh, defame them as, as racist.

00:30:40.320 That's the way we should, that's the way these things should be handled. All right. Um, next here,

00:30:44.880 we have a report here from KFOR in Oklahoma, local news affiliate there over the controversy

00:30:50.300 surrounding a Republican legislator who, while arguing in favor of pro-life legislation,

00:30:55.460 compared abortion to slavery. And we were, this is a big controversy. We're supposed to be upset

00:30:59.560 about this. Uh, let's listen to the news report. Representative Jim Olson was introducing his bill

00:31:05.780 to the house public health committee when he made these comments that immediately sparked outrage from

00:31:11.120 some of his fellow house members. What was going through my head was shocked and appalled. A

00:31:18.660 controversial comparison made in a debate over an abortion bill. Republican representative Jim

00:31:24.460 Olson introducing his bill that would make performing an abortion a felony. In his argument,

00:31:30.140 comparing the fight to abolish abortion to a long push to abolish slavery. This is absolutely worth

00:31:37.040 doing, even if it takes a long time. But that message was amiss for some in the room. Saving the

00:31:42.980 lives of an unborn child is, is more important than saving the lives of slaves. None of us would like

00:31:48.320 to be a slave. Um, if I had my choice, I guess I'd be a slave. At least the slave has his life. Later,

00:31:56.420 Representative Olson doubling down, saying it's in no way an endorsement of slavery. In the context of

00:32:02.940 history in general, I did compare one evil to another. And very frankly, I make no apology for

00:32:11.180 it. That's triggering. That's traumatizing. That's hurtful. Oh, shut up. It's you were traumatized,

00:32:18.600 were you? By someone making a point rhetorically? You're, you were traumatized by that. You're

00:32:23.820 suffering trauma. You have to go to therapy now. That's trauma. Okay. Trauma is like someone survives

00:32:30.100 a plane crash. Okay. Trauma is someone who was sexually abused as a child. That's trauma.

00:32:36.680 Trauma is not a guy made a point you disagreed with.

00:32:41.880 And this Jim Olson guy, I don't know anything about him, but based on that alone, uh, I like him.

00:32:47.620 And the suggestion that he was defending slavery, but what he was, his, that was exactly the opposite

00:32:56.200 point he was trying to make. He's trying to make a point about how evil abortion is by comparing it

00:33:00.900 to slavery. Now you could disagree, but to suggest that he was what, what was the phrase that he was

00:33:08.700 defending slavery or justifying it? What? That's exactly the opposite of what he was saying.

00:33:15.820 And in fact, as it happens, and I've made this point myself many times, um,

00:33:20.140 there is a similarity here. There's a similarity because what you find throughout history is that,

00:33:27.320 um, and, and, and this is true today and it goes going all the way back. And this has always been

00:33:31.260 the case in human society. Unfortunately, that there are always groups of people who are pointing

00:33:37.580 to other groups of people and saying that those people aren't people. Okay. Throughout history,

00:33:43.580 you always have that. You have some people trying to deperson other people. And this comes in various

00:33:50.760 different forms. Um, and leads to, and always leads to atrocity and death and oppression and

00:33:57.900 horrible, horrible things. And what you find is that, and this is a really important point that the

00:34:03.260 people who are doing this, who are doing the depersoning, they always make the same kinds of

00:34:08.720 arguments always. It never changes for thousands of years. It has hardly changed.

00:34:17.100 No, I've, I've, uh, I, this is something I go through in a lot of my speeches, but I'll go through

00:34:20.720 it here just to make that point as the point's been raised. Um, in fact, I was giving a speech,

00:34:25.200 a right to life in, uh, here in Nashville and in Tennessee a couple of days ago, and I went through

00:34:29.740 the same thing. So let's go through it. Okay. Just, just to make, to make the point. Um, every pro,

00:34:36.740 every pro abortion argument has mirrors our arguments, pro slavery arguments from the 19th

00:34:43.220 century. And let's, let's go through them. There's the argument from ownership. This slave

00:34:49.280 slash baby is my property slash body. You can't tell me what to do with it. There's the argument 0.99

00:34:54.360 from privacy. No one is forcing you to have slaves slash abortions. Mind your own business. 0.65

00:34:59.300 There's the argument from superseding rights. My property slash body autonomy rights come before

00:35:04.180 the rights of a slave slash fetus. There's the argument from inevitability. Slavery slash abortion 0.92

00:35:09.240 has been around for thousands of years. It's never going away. We might as well have a safe and legal

00:35:12.640 system in place for it. There's the argument from pseudoscience. Slave slash fetuses aren't really

00:35:18.420 people. They aren't like us. Look at them. They're physically different. Therefore we are human and

00:35:22.820 they are not. There's the argument from socioeconomics. If slavery slash abortion ends, most of these slaves 0.98

00:35:28.400 slash babies will end up on the street without a job. There's the argument from the courts. This is a big 0.52

00:35:33.180 one. Slavery slash abortion has been vindicated by the Supreme Court. It's settled law. There's the

00:35:38.940 argument from faux compassion. Slavery slash abortion is in the best interest of the Africans 1.00

00:35:42.920 slash babies. The world can be a cruel place. It's best to protect them by keeping them enslaved slash 1.00

00:35:47.840 killing them. Then there's the argument from the assumed hypocrisy of the other side. You say you want 1.00

00:35:53.000 to end slavery slash abortion, but you don't want to live with free blacks slash adopt unwanted babies 1.00

00:35:57.020 yourself. And that's only a partial list. Every single one directly correlates with arguments made 0.99

00:36:09.600 today for abortion. And finally, we have time for this. Yeah, we'll make time because we got to make

00:36:17.960 time for this. You know, I love playing the TikTok videos for you. And here's a good one. No

00:36:24.180 introduction needed. Here's another TikTok woman screaming in her car. Always fun. Let's watch. 1.00

00:36:29.140 So f***ing done with this world. I'm so tired of it. I'm so f***ing tired of this selfish, idiotic 0.95

00:36:35.320 behavior. I have one, two, I have three f***ing trailers. Three. And I don't want to carry this 1.00

00:36:44.560 f***ing iron lung with me anywhere I f***ing go. Just in case that these don't work and you have the

00:36:50.320 nerve to tell me that I, you have a doctor's note not to wear this. If any doctor gave you that,

00:36:57.280 it's because you're that f***ing weak. You can't wear a piece of cloth. You're a f***ing selfish, 0.99

00:37:03.340 f***ing. And if your husband does that too in public, I hope you both catch COVID. I hope you 1.00

00:37:09.200 both understand how serious this is. My four-year-old needs me. My disabled husband who broke his spine

00:37:15.960 in 2016 needs me. I'm the only one doing anything at my house because they need me. And you're selfish

00:37:23.980 trying to take me away from them. Okay, darling. Um, first of all, if you have trouble breathing,

00:37:32.100 calm down, stop screaming. This is not, this isn't, this is not helping your asthma. I'll tell you that

00:37:37.540 much. Um, second of all, mind your own business, my body, my choice, right? Remember one of the

00:37:46.940 pro-abortion arguments, except it actually like really applies here. Whereas it doesn't apply

00:37:52.200 for abortion because again, as we talked about, they've talked about many times, abortion is the,

00:37:56.760 the direct killing of another person is the direct destruction of another person's body.

00:38:00.980 Not wearing a mask is not the direct destruction of another person's body by not wearing a mask.

00:38:07.620 You are not intentionally and directly killing another person. You're not. Anyone who says you

00:38:12.660 are is insane, a lunatic and should be disregarded. So in this case, I'll say, yeah, my body, my choice. 1.00

00:38:18.860 Simple as that. I don't want to wear it. So I'm not going to. Um, but I do also have to say,

00:38:22.760 you know, with all due respect, um, she says that she's the only one doing anything for her health

00:38:28.240 and she's trying to look out for health. Well, the number one risk factor for COVID. Yeah. Asthma

00:38:36.400 is not, not good, but really the number one risk factor is obesity. And, uh, we're a year into this

00:38:43.600 thing and you say that you care, you're, you're taking this so seriously, right? You're taking it

00:38:48.940 so seriously and, uh, your, your health is so important to you, but you haven't, you're, you're

00:38:55.100 still very overweight. And so you're, you're in a high risk category. If you were taking your health

00:39:01.040 as that, that seriously, you'd be taking care of that because that's something that you can do

00:39:04.960 yourself. Can't blame anyone else for that. That is something you can do. Um, and if you did,

00:39:12.700 it would lower your COVID risks substantially. So if you're not even doing that, then I guess I

00:39:16.860 question how seriously you're really taking it. All right. Let's move on to quickly reading a few

00:39:24.160 of these comments here. Anna says, thanks for talking about aging. I'm tired of this youth

00:39:29.480 obsessed society, how society pretends no one ages. And if they do, there's something wrong with them.

00:39:34.720 Yeah. Well, and, and that, and that, as we talked about yesterday, it's, uh, partially a symptom of

00:39:40.500 our fear of death. Uh, we, we, we probably live in one of the most death phobic societies in human

00:39:46.820 history. I mean, human beings have always been afraid of death, but we are so, uh, pardon the phrase

00:39:53.940 dead set on denying it, not thinking about it, avoiding it to an extent, to an extent that I

00:40:01.300 think sets us apart from, from many other human societies in history. And that's, it's a symptom

00:40:05.420 of that. It's also one of the reasons why, and I've never understood this, why asking somebody their

00:40:11.860 age is like embarrassing. You're not supposed to ask that question. That is, that is a social

00:40:17.760 convention that I think is so ridiculous. And I reject it. And I don't, I ask people their age all 0.97

00:40:23.340 the time. I don't care how old or young they seem to be. Cause sometimes it could be something

00:40:29.660 you're curious about. It kind of, it relates to the conversation you're having. I have no

00:40:33.800 problem. So how old are you? And yeah, oftentimes people will look at you like you just asked them

00:40:38.420 how much money they have in their bank account or, you know, if they have herpes or something

00:40:44.420 like they look at you, like you've just asked this incredibly personal. It's not, who cares?

00:40:49.720 It's your age. It's simply how long you've been on earth. Why is that a really personal,

00:40:55.360 embarrassing detail? I don't get it. If you've been around a long time, that's good. You should

00:41:03.080 be proud of that. It's not embarrassing. So what, if you're 52, you're embarrassed that you've been,

00:41:08.560 it's embarrassing that you've been on earth for 52 years. You would rather that you've only been on

00:41:13.520 earth for 22. Why? If anything, it's embarrassing to be younger because it means you have less

00:41:19.700 experience, less wisdom, less credibility in a lot of areas. I like getting old. I can't wait to be

00:41:29.580 older. Um, once I get to like 70, you know, that's going to be, that's really, I've been,

00:41:35.580 I've been 70 years old really spiritually my whole life. And so when I get to 70, that's when I will know

00:41:40.220 that I'm home. Um, let's see. T Smith says, Hey Matt, just listen to your rumination on the

00:41:49.420 meaning of life for non-religious people. We're reminded of a segment a while back when you

00:41:53.400 critiqued Sam Harris's position on free will. Are you up on Sam's philosophy relating to the

00:41:58.640 meaning of life from his waking up podcast? I'd be curious to hear your thoughts. I'm not sure

00:42:03.440 exactly what you're, what you're referring to. I did hear a clip of his a while ago that someone

00:42:07.340 sent me that I thought was interesting, where he talks about the reality of death and, uh, you know,

00:42:11.780 how, how to live in spite of the fact that we're going to die. And he's, he's approaching this as

00:42:15.200 an atheist. I think he did his, he does as good a job as an atheist can do in dealing with that

00:42:21.520 subject and basically, basically explaining how you can live with joy and purpose, even knowing

00:42:28.720 from the atheist perspective that you're soon going to be dead and erased from existence. And, uh,

00:42:32.960 everyone's going to forget about you and you will just evaporate into the ether and nothing you

00:42:36.700 ever did will matter. Like even knowing that, how do you live with joy and purpose? Sam Harris,

00:42:41.880 I've heard him address that a few times. He does as good a job as you could possibly do with that,

00:42:47.220 but that's still not very good because you can't get around on the atheist worldview,

00:42:52.140 the inherent meaningless of life. You can't get around it. Um, and finally, Tristan says,

00:42:59.480 would I be wrong in thinking that as a species, we are sick and insane? No, you would not. 0.96

00:43:03.480 In fact, that's, that's, uh, go from the atheist worldview to the Christian worldview. That's a,

00:43:11.040 that is one of the fundamental facets of the Christian worldview that we are a sick, uh, people 1.00

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00:45:07.120 Today for our daily cancellation, we turned to a website called openly the bill. They build

00:45:11.520 themselves as an impartial in quote, impartial LGBT plus news organization. Now, my first issue here

00:45:18.300 off the bat is that they've left off the queue. I'm not sure why that is. This has been a really

00:45:23.360 bad year for the letter Q I think, but in any case, openly published a lengthy thread, which went viral

00:45:28.040 and is supposed to demonstrate the validity of quote, non-binary identities by showing that cultures

00:45:34.120 across the world have their own versions of non-binary or trans people. Now, many on the left

00:45:38.760 think they succeeded. Now I think they succeeded too. It's just that they succeeded in proving my point,

00:45:44.140 not their own point. So let's take a look at the thread. This is what they said, quote,

00:45:48.660 the gender binaries of male and female aren't as universal as you think from Samoa to Albania.

00:45:53.880 Here are eight cultures throughout history showing that the concept of non-binary gender is far from

00:45:59.020 new. Now we'll stop right there for a second. This is a tactic that the left likes to trot out from 0.77

00:46:03.980 time to time, usually in an effort to normalize one of their preferred lifestyles. But this strategy

00:46:09.620 creates some problems for the people who use it. The problem is that the, look, other cultures in

00:46:15.300 the world agree with me, knife, cuts both ways. There are many societies across the globe still

00:46:21.140 today and certainly throughout history that, for example, considered homosexuality to be sinful.

00:46:26.180 In many cultures, there are still very traditional ideas about the role of women. There are plenty of

00:46:30.500 cultures where fathers decide who their daughters marry and so on. If we're meant to embrace gender 0.59

00:46:35.560 fluidity because other cultures allegedly practice it, then should we also revert back

00:46:40.620 to traditional marriage and patriarchal family structures on the same basis? Oh no, of course

00:46:45.440 not. No, we're supposed to celebrate and embrace other cultures based entirely on how those cultures

00:46:51.640 conform to Western liberal ideas. That's what the left thinks. I don't know about you, but that sounds a

00:46:58.320 little, what's the word they like to use? Um, colonialist to me. Now let's look at the examples

00:47:05.180 they provide. We'll go through some of these. Um, two-spirit North America. Identifying with

00:47:11.880 masculinity and femininity, indigenous North American two-spirit people are often said to

00:47:17.060 contain both male and female spirits. They're often revealed in their communities, seen as a channel

00:47:22.340 between the physical and the spiritual. Then we go to Samoa. Identifying as a separate gender, 1.00

00:47:28.420 Fa-Fafinz. I'm going to mispronounce a lot of stuff when I read this, but just, we'll just go with 0.89

00:47:34.260 me. Fa-Faninz roles in society moves fluidly between the traditional male and female. While they're 0.55

00:47:39.480 assigned male at birth, Samoa also recognizes Fa-Fatama, an equally fluid gender for those assigned

00:47:46.260 female at birth. And we go to South Asia, the Hydras. They say the centuries-old third gender 1.00

00:47:52.740 associated with sacred powers usually refers to those assigned male at birth, but don't identify

00:47:57.120 as such. In 2014, India legally recognized Hydras as a third gender after they were criminalized by

00:48:03.400 the British in 1871. Then we have the sworn virgins in Albania. In this dying practice, 0.83

00:48:09.600 women take on the social identity of a man for life while taking a vow of chastity. By taking on this 1.00

00:48:14.480 identity, they're elevated to the status of a man entitled to the rights and privileges of the

00:48:18.480 patriarchy. Then we go to the Metis in Nepal. Officially recognized as a third gender in Nepal 0.53

00:48:24.500 in 2017, or rather 2007, Metis have a long history in the Himalayan region. Assigned male at birth,

00:48:30.280 they assume a traditional feminine appearance. Nepal set a global precedent with a third gender

00:48:34.760 category on official documents. And finally, the Toms in Thailand. One of the dozens or more common

00:48:40.600 gender identities in Thailand, Toms are women who adopt masculine mannerisms and style while using male 1.00

00:48:45.920 speech patterns. Toms are often attracted to Ds, women who follow traditional Thai gender norms. 0.89

00:48:52.360 Okay, let's run through a few issues here. First of all, we're just assuming for the sake of argument

00:48:58.000 that all of the information provided here is actually correct. And that is a wild assumption

00:49:02.180 and probably a bad one. But that has to be our starting point for the sake of argument.

00:49:07.300 Just remember to apply a healthy portion of salt to everything that you just heard.

00:49:11.420 I don't even know if all that is true. For all I know, it's all false. For example, I do know that

00:49:16.260 the two-spirit term, the first thing they mentioned for Native Americans, that term dates back to 1990.

00:49:23.100 LGBT activists came up with it about 30 years ago. It's not some ancient idea stretching back into the

00:49:28.560 distant past. They just came up with this. I suspect if I researched all of these other examples,

00:49:34.240 I would find similar caveats. But again, for the sake of argument, let's pretend that all of the

00:49:38.560 information in the thread is correct and not at all misleading. On that assumption,

00:49:42.520 it actually defeats the very point that it's supposed to make. Why? Well, first of all,

00:49:48.440 in some of these cases, the supposedly non-binary identification is religious in nature. We're

00:49:53.820 told about the third gender people in South Asia who are believed to have sacred powers. But they don't 0.63

00:49:59.800 really have sacred powers, of course. This is obviously an incorrect belief about the way the world

00:50:04.920 works. It's a doctrinal, religiously-based belief. Some might call it superstitious.

00:50:11.200 Now, there's nothing wrong with religious beliefs in principle. I have my own religious beliefs.

00:50:17.260 Though it is interesting that leftists will laugh at Christian doctrine while asking us to take

00:50:21.240 seriously the belief in mystical third-gendered people with sacred powers. This is not a comparison

00:50:28.280 that works in the left's favor. Though ironically, I think it's a pretty good comparison.

00:50:31.680 You know, it works in my favor. I think it actually is a pretty good comparison,

00:50:36.080 but not for the reasons that they think. Yes, it's true that the left's theories on gender are

00:50:41.440 really religious more than anything. They, the left, I mean, they see gender as this mystical,

00:50:47.720 supernatural thing. And that's how they come up with the concept of women being trapped in male 1.00

00:50:52.420 bodies and so forth. If they would just come out and admit this, you know, if they would admit it and

00:50:57.720 say that this is their religion, then I would say, fine, you're entitled to your religious beliefs,

00:51:02.300 but don't try to force it on me and keep it out of the schools. But they won't, they won't admit

00:51:08.020 that it's a religious belief, even as in this case, they themselves compare it to the religious

00:51:12.560 beliefs of other cultures. So that's one problem. Second, finally, notice something else about all

00:51:19.180 these examples. In these other cultures, they may have men who take on a feminine appearance or 0.77

00:51:24.440 women who take on a masculine appearance, but they don't think that the men actually are women

00:51:29.140 or the women actually are men. The Toms in Thailand are women with a masculine style.

00:51:35.220 We used to have that here too. They were called Tom boys, but in order to be a Tom or Tom boy,

00:51:40.640 you have to be a woman with a masculine style. The fact that you are a woman is an essential ingredient. 0.99

00:51:47.740 It's what makes you that. In our culture, we're now supposed to believe that the women with 1.00

00:51:53.000 masculine styles are actually in reality, literally men, which means that they aren't

00:51:58.940 women with masculine styles at all, but just men with regular style. The very thing that makes them 1.00

00:52:04.840 different and supposedly special is removed by saying that they are the thing that they're

00:52:09.840 dressing up as. This is the difference between our culture and every other one on the list. In every

00:52:15.280 case, there are people of one sex in these other cultures. There are people of one sex who,

00:52:20.200 for one reason or another, dress up as or act as members of the opposite sex, but nobody thinks

00:52:25.580 that they actually are members of the opposite sex. The whole point is that they aren't, but are 0.98

00:52:31.040 acting like it. That is completely different from what we do here now. All of this highlights,

00:52:39.060 all it really highlights is that, in fact, the modern Western idea of gender is entirely

00:52:44.320 unprecedented. It is a completely new, unheard of thing in the world. The idea that a man can actually 0.84

00:52:52.040 become a woman, not simply act like one or play the role of one, but become one, be one, is new

00:52:59.280 and false. And this line of argument, presented by our friends at Openly, only underscores that very

00:53:06.320 fact. It makes precisely the opposite point that it was trying to make. It proves the argument it was

00:53:12.160 meant to debunk. So it is a very bad, stupid argument for them to present, but I appreciate it. 0.99

00:53:19.900 And today, it gets them canceled. And that'll do it for us today and this week. Hope you have a great 0.99

00:53:26.300 weekend. I'll talk to you on Monday. Godspeed.

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Ep. 697 - The “Influencers” Who Prey On Your Children

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