The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 749 - They're Coming For Your Children

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Wall Show, Joe Biden unveils his brilliant new plan for education. He wants to add

00:00:04.720 four additional years of public school. Your children should be in the state's clutches for

00:00:09.160 16 years, he says. We'll talk about all the reasons why that's a terrible idea today.

00:00:13.160 Also, five headlines, including talk of sending U.S. troops into Haiti.

00:00:16.980 And a teacher's union comes out and says that we need more critical race theory in education,

00:00:20.820 while another union says that there is no critical race theory in education at all.

00:00:25.020 Seems like a little bit of a contradiction there. And yet, and also yet another woman

00:00:27.900 at a spa in Los Angeles is sexually harassed by a naked trans person. Plus, our daily

00:00:32.240 cancellation where we will talk about a recent Washington Post article which informs us that

00:00:36.540 the word exotic is now racist. All of that and more today on The Matt Wall Show.

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00:02:00.080 Everyone is, of course, familiar with the old saying about the definition of insanity. Insanity

00:02:04.620 is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Well, I think we

00:02:08.200 might revise it slightly where the government is concerned and say that insanity is investing more

00:02:13.120 and more time and money into an ineffective strategy, hoping that it will magically become

00:02:18.660 effective. You can always count on politicians to come along and say, well, this thing we're doing

00:02:22.900 doesn't seem to be working. And that's why I propose that we spend another $5 trillion on it.

00:02:28.300 Nowhere is this type of insanity more effective or rather more prominent than in the realm of

00:02:35.140 education. As Joe Biden again demonstrated yesterday, Biden tweeted this, quote, the fact is 12 years of

00:02:42.240 education is no longer enough to compete in the 21st century. That's why my build back better agenda.

00:02:48.840 So terrible. That slogan. It's the worst slogan, probably the worst political slogan I've ever heard.

00:02:54.300 Build back better. Anyway, my build back better agenda will guarantee four additional years of public

00:03:00.720 education for every person in America, two years of preschool and two years of free community college.

00:03:05.880 So 12 years isn't working, he says. Let's add another four. He unveiled this plan in more detail

00:03:11.720 during a speech the same afternoon at a community college in Illinois. Here it is.

00:03:16.660 Does anybody think in the 21st century with the change that's taking place in technology and

00:03:22.480 across the board that 12 years of education is enough to be able to live a middle-class life?

00:03:28.600 I don't think so. And so the fact of the matter is we've decided, I've decided we should have

00:03:34.540 a minimum of 14 years of education, 14 years of education, which I'll explain in a second.

00:03:40.100 You know, as the first lady, I'm Jill Biden's husband. But as Jill would say, and she's a full-time

00:03:48.180 community college professor while being the first lady, she often says, any nation that

00:03:53.420 out-educates us is going to out-compete us. Any nation that out-educates us is going to out-compete

00:03:59.240 us. That's why I want to guarantee an additional four years of public education for every person

00:04:04.060 in America, starting with providing two years of universal high-quality preschool for three- and

00:04:10.100 four-year-olds, building on what the governor has been doing here in Illinois.

00:04:17.680 And then I want to add two years of free community college for everyone.

00:04:21.580 And then I want to give everyone free pancakes every single morning when they wake up. I think

00:04:33.980 everyone should have pancakes. We'll work out the details later, but everyone should have that.

00:04:37.920 There are so many problems here that it's hard to know where exactly to begin. Biden says that 12

00:04:42.320 years isn't enough to compete and, quote, live a middle-class life. His plan is then to add two

00:04:48.200 years to the beginning and the end, two years of universal pre-K, which means kids will start

00:04:51.820 at the age of three or four, and then two years of community college. He says he wants to do all

00:04:57.240 of this because kids should have a minimum of 14 years of education. Now, the first issue should be

00:05:04.220 immediately obvious. Four plus 12 is 16, not 14. So Biden can't even do basic arithmetic, and here he is

00:05:12.260 trying to revamp the education system. More importantly, what does he mean by compete?

00:05:19.700 Compete with who exactly? Who is my three-year-old supposed to be competing against?

00:05:25.500 Well, we got to get her in preschool so she can compete. What? Against two? Her peers? Well,

00:05:32.240 this is all about the kids competing against each other. How does it help to make them all spend

00:05:37.000 the same amount of time in school? If you increase the amount of time they're all spending

00:05:42.500 in school, then aren't you just breaking even in that case? Or is she supposed to be competing

00:05:47.740 against children from other countries? Is that the concern I'm supposed to have for my three-year-old

00:05:52.840 child, that she is able to compete against toddlers in China? Where do we get this idea that

00:06:00.200 education is primarily a competition? Isn't that a fundamentally grotesque and bizarre and ugly way

00:06:07.140 of looking at it? Education is supposed to make people smarter and more knowledgeable and wiser.

00:06:13.140 A good education ultimately makes you a better person. Note the good qualifier there. A good

00:06:18.000 education will do that. But it's hard to achieve that goal, the goal of being a better and wiser person,

00:06:24.600 if you're doing it in the name of competition. Or by compete, do you mean simply that our kids'

00:06:31.920 ultimate purpose is to be cogs in the corporate machine? You know, that's their great calling in

00:06:37.140 life and more time on the government education assembly line will better enable them to fulfill

00:06:41.540 that vocation. Is that what you're saying? So again, what precisely are you saying? What is anyone

00:06:47.320 saying when they advocate for education as competition? And then, in spite of all this talk about

00:06:54.020 competing, which sounds ruthless and dreary, but at least ambitious in a certain way,

00:06:59.640 Biden says that the real goal is to live a middle class life. Oh, is that all? Now, there's nothing

00:07:06.540 wrong with being in the middle class. Most people are. But since when is that the fulfillment, the

00:07:11.620 destination? Since when is that the goal in and of itself? Politicians talk about the middle class as if

00:07:18.060 it's all anyone should ever strive to achieve, even though, of course, none of them are actually in the

00:07:22.560 middle class themselves. So just think about this for a minute. Biden is arguing that you need 16 years

00:07:29.360 of formal education in order to simply be middle class. You need to be in class from the age of three

00:07:36.880 until at least your 19th or 20th birthday so that you can be rewarded with a salary of $45,000 a year

00:07:43.140 and an 1,100 square foot townhouse. Again, there's nothing wrong with that salary or that kind of house,

00:07:49.200 but the idea that you need 16 years of education to attain it is nonsensical. And the idea that such

00:07:55.960 attainment is all anyone wants or should want is wrong and weird, not to mention depressing.

00:08:02.960 Biden says that 12 years of formal education simply isn't enough. This is something we hear a lot.

00:08:10.380 It always rings hollow in my ears, I have to tell you, because 12 years of formal education is all I have.

00:08:17.140 And I'm doing quite well, I have to say. I'm not a trust fund baby. I didn't start out with a million

00:08:22.380 dollars in the bank. I didn't start out with any money in the bank at all. And yet I've had success

00:08:26.600 and now I'm supporting a family of six on my own with only a high school diploma to my name.

00:08:31.780 And I barely even earned that diploma, to be honest with you. Am I some sort of earth shattering

00:08:37.400 exception? Am I so incredibly talented and brilliant that I managed to do what Biden and so many others say

00:08:42.820 is virtually impossible? I'd like to think so for my ego's sake. When he says, when I hear that this

00:08:49.620 is like impossible to do, I really want to believe that because then that means that I'm very special.

00:08:58.500 But I'm not. The fact is that a great many paths in life, profitable paths, paths that could lead to

00:09:05.600 success, success, do not require formal education outside of high school. And then there are many

00:09:11.720 more, which if they do require some kind of formal education outside of high school, require something

00:09:16.980 like a trade school, not a four year university. These sorts of pathways and options are becoming

00:09:22.480 more plentiful, not less. There are, as time goes on, more, not fewer professions where the only

00:09:29.940 thing that matters is whether you can do the job. I can tell you that in my business, nobody gives a

00:09:35.440 damn about whether whatever paperwork you might have. All that matters is whether you can do it,

00:09:39.860 whether you're good at it, whether you put in the work. And this is not unique. There are many

00:09:47.420 industries like that. Can you do it? Are you good at it? If you can, there's a spot for you. If you can't,

00:09:56.760 there isn't. Waving a paper around and saying, yeah, but I have this piece of paper. Nobody cares.

00:10:03.560 That's the case for a lot of jobs. But let's say for a minute that Biden is right. Let's pretend

00:10:09.840 for the sake of argument that 12 years is insufficient, that kids are emerging from their

00:10:17.380 measly 12 years, woefully unprepared to compete or even to be functional middle-class citizens of the

00:10:23.500 country. Actually, we don't need to pretend that actually is true in many cases. A great many kids

00:10:28.260 are coming out of their public school education with no knowledge, no skills, no idea what they

00:10:33.880 want to do with their lives or can do, utterly ill-equipped for life, having learned virtually

00:10:39.000 nothing. There are millions of kids who went to public school and in the end have learned nothing.

00:10:46.560 They would have been better off spending those 12 years like in a jungle being mentored by spider

00:10:51.620 monkeys. There's a lot of kids for whom that's the case. And so we know that. What is the solution

00:11:00.380 then? To send them back into that environment for four more years? To do more of the thing that

00:11:07.620 didn't work to begin with? To invest more of their young lives, not to mention trillions of additional

00:11:13.320 dollars from the taxpayers? To do the thing that was already proven to be totally ineffectual?

00:11:17.620 No, obviously not. These are kids who either will not thrive in any kind of formal educational

00:11:26.460 environment because their minds simply aren't wired that way. I fall into that category.

00:11:31.580 That doesn't mean we can't learn. It just means that we can't learn like that. I love to learn. I just

00:11:38.640 can't do it if you sit me at a desk for seven hours a day and you've got it all regimented. You say,

00:11:45.860 this is what you're going to learn now, and now you're going to learn this, and now you're going

00:11:49.260 to learn this. I can't learn like that. Doesn't mean I can't learn. A lot of kids fall into that

00:11:56.820 category. Or these are kids who will not thrive in the particular educational environment of modern

00:12:03.640 public school because that environment is horrible for learning, which is why only a very small percentage

00:12:11.260 of kids manage to do it. Whichever the case, four more years isn't going to help. Twenty more years

00:12:19.940 won't help. And it especially won't help these days when kids are spending large chunks of their

00:12:25.560 initial 12 years sitting in classrooms and learning what it means to be, you know, a gender fluid

00:12:30.180 pansexual rather than learning foundational things like writing and mathematics and science and literature.

00:12:35.500 If you really want to compete with China, then you'd get rid of the LGBT and the critical race

00:12:44.000 theory indoctrination because I can guarantee you they aren't wasting any time on any of that

00:12:49.940 in Chinese classrooms. But all of that's a moot point, really. The talk of competing, of achieving

00:12:57.800 the goal of being middle class, all of that is window dressing. The real reason these people want

00:13:04.400 more public education, want to have your kids in their clutches for longer and longer is so that

00:13:09.540 their minds and souls can be formed, your children's minds and souls can be formed into the shape that

00:13:16.580 these people prefer. And that has nothing to do with learning math or science or history.

00:13:23.480 The powers that be don't give a damn whether your kid knows anything about math or history or

00:13:28.560 literature, whether he can write well. None of that is the point of education as far as Biden and

00:13:36.940 everyone else on the left are concerned. Rather than cut back on the LGBT and critical race theory

00:13:42.040 stuff, they're making room for it more and more and pushing real education, real educational

00:13:47.460 subjects to the side precisely because these things are the point. Your kids belong to them.

00:13:54.900 Their souls belong to them as far as they're concerned. Give your kids to us early, they say.

00:14:03.240 And we may not make them smart or successful or competent or happy or fulfilled, but we will make

00:14:10.660 sure that they have the right opinions and the right values, that they become the right sort of person,

00:14:17.360 which is to say the opposite of the sort of person you want them to be. That's the real purpose

00:14:23.940 of all of us. Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:15:53.240 because it very much plays into what we just talked about, especially at the end there of

00:15:57.380 the monologue, the real purpose of education, which is to convert your kids. You know, it's a,

00:16:06.360 it's a, for, for the left, public education is religious education. It's all about conversion.

00:16:13.260 And, um, here is, uh, and, and most of the time on the left, they'll deny that or they'll try to go,

00:16:19.800 try to kind of use euphemisms. They don't want to speak directly about it and admit that, yeah,

00:16:25.040 we want your kids. We want to convert them and make them into the kinds of people that we think

00:16:29.740 they should be. Usually they, they skirt around that subject. They're not going to be so blunt and

00:16:34.400 straightforward about it, but every once in a while they'll come out and, and, and admit it

00:16:38.500 and sometimes do that in the form of song. So I got to play this with you, for you, uh, to begin

00:16:45.520 with, this is the San Francisco gay men's chorus as they're called. And, uh, they've apparently been

00:16:51.760 around for a long time. This is a, a, a video they put out on, on YouTube. It's titled a message

00:16:59.160 from the gay community. And, um, anyway, here's the message. Let's listen.

00:17:04.260 You think we're sinful. You fight against our rights. You say we all lead lives. You can't

00:17:11.360 respect, but you're just frightened. You think that we'll corrupt your kids. If our agenda goes

00:17:21.780 unchecked. Funny, just this once. You're correct. We'll convert your children. Happens bit by bit,

00:17:35.180 quietly and subtly, and you will barely notice it. You can keep them from disco. Worn about San Francisco.

00:17:44.560 Make him wear pleated pants. We don't care. We'll convert your children. We'll make them tolerant

00:17:55.160 and fair. There you go. Uh, that's, that is ultimately the goal. Now we, we also have, okay,

00:18:04.080 we'll play this clip for you real quick too, because then the song goes on. I'm not gonna play the whole

00:18:07.620 thing for you. Um, but I think the creepiest part of the whole song, you probably thought that it

00:18:12.600 couldn't get creepier than that. Well, it does. Here you go.

00:18:36.520 Oh, nothing weird about that. Bunch of grown men saying we're coming for your children.

00:18:42.600 What else do you need to know? They're literally, they've put it in song. They're

00:18:47.300 singing it to you. We're coming for your children. Yep, we are. We'll get, we got a whole song and

00:18:54.540 dance about it. Yeah. Even in spite of this, there are still people, even people on the right. A lot

00:19:03.360 of people on the right. Actually, when you use a phrase like the LGBT agenda, they kind of recoil.

00:19:09.340 They say, well, whoa, yeah, this is, that's conspiracy. That's offensive.

00:19:15.380 It's right there. It's not for me. Is this, you just heard it. You heard the song. They've got us,

00:19:21.500 they've got an anthem now making it very clear. Um, the only problem with a phrase like the LGBT agenda

00:19:32.980 is that it's, it's, it's, it's, this is all it's redundant. I mean, the left's agenda is the LGBT

00:19:38.800 agenda is the critical race theory agenda. All of this is, is together, but they could not be more

00:19:47.120 clear about it. They're coming for your children. And the way that they justify it is, is they say,

00:19:54.260 well, we, we want to make them tolerant and fair. We want to make them open-minded.

00:20:00.620 Of course, it's going to be our idea of what tolerant and fair means. And as we know, uh,

00:20:07.820 this is not going to be universal tolerance because they're not going to be tolerant. We don't want your

00:20:14.000 kids to be tolerant of, of everything. We don't even want them to be tolerant of you.

00:20:17.220 We want to turn your kids against you. No, we want them to be tolerant of, of us and the choices

00:20:26.960 that we make and not so much tolerant as, uh, as celebratory is really the word.

00:20:36.960 Um, all right, let's move on here. A little bit of international news. This is from the sun. It says

00:20:45.360 the U S could send troops into Haiti after the bloody assassination of president

00:20:49.540 Jovenel Moise, who was a gun down in his home. It's feared the Caribbean nation could be plunged

00:20:56.020 into chaos after the killing, which has shocked the world. And experts have already raised the

00:21:00.100 prospect of a Western intervention. Uh, can I say, first of all, I am not especially shocked

00:21:07.900 that something like this happened in Haiti. I admit, I know nothing about Haiti whatsoever.

00:21:12.980 The only thing I really know about Haiti is that, uh, it's not the kind of place I ever

00:21:16.640 want to be, but I can't be, I can't say that I'm terribly shocked that something like this

00:21:22.500 is happening in Haiti. And what I can also say is that, um, I have no interest in seeing

00:21:30.220 any U S troops go to Haiti. How is that our problem? And I think we have to be outspoken about

00:21:37.880 this kind of thing right now, because right now it's all we're being told is, well, there's,

00:21:43.120 there's talk. We might send some troops in as the American people. We have to put our foot

00:21:48.740 down and say, absolutely not. Stop right there. That's not happening. This is Haiti's problem.

00:21:56.320 Not our problem. Haiti gets plunged into a civil war. Unfortunate, not our issue. You got to figure

00:22:04.260 that out on your own, sort out your own problems. Um, all right, let's move on here. It's a,

00:22:12.220 here's an article. So we've, we've got two things which really seem to contradict each other.

00:22:18.400 Call me crazy. We'll start with an article on the Oklahoma council of public affairs website.

00:22:24.460 It says at its recent annual meeting and representative assembly members of the national

00:22:28.720 education association, which is the largest teachers union in the country vowed to support

00:22:34.800 and promote use of critical race theory in the classroom and oppose laws that prevent biological

00:22:39.340 males from competing against biological females and women's sports. The NEA is the parent organization

00:22:44.200 of the Oklahoma education association. And, uh, OEA members were among those participating in the

00:22:49.500 annual meeting, which was conducted virtually this year in the 2019 to 20, 2020 school year,

00:22:54.560 the most recent for which figures available. Um, so on and so forth. That doesn't matter.

00:22:59.160 The task force's goal includes increasing the implement implementation of critical race theory

00:23:03.420 and similar material in curriculum and pre pre through K through 12 and, um, and higher education.

00:23:11.480 Okay. So this is what they're saying. They want to, they are not only okay with critical race theory

00:23:18.780 in the school system, but they want more of it. They want to increase critical race theory in the

00:23:23.320 school system. And if you're increasing it and you're putting more funding in it, that means that

00:23:29.300 it's already there, right? Well, this shed some interesting light on a speech given yesterday by

00:23:36.740 Randy Weingarten. She's the president of the American Federation of Teachers, another massively large

00:23:42.620 teachers union. And, uh, she has a very different take on critical race theory. Here's what she says

00:23:47.760 about it. Critical race theory is not taught in elementary schools or middle schools or high

00:23:56.940 schools. It's a method of examination taught in law school and in college that helps analyze whether

00:24:07.460 systemic racism exists and in particular, whether it has an effect on law and public policy.

00:24:16.240 Okay. But cultural warriors are labeling any discussion of race, racism, or discrimination,

00:24:28.540 SCRT, to try to make it toxic. They are bullying teachers and trying to stop us from teaching students

00:24:38.980 accurate history.

00:24:40.540 Okay. So critical race theory is being taught and it's a great thing. You don't need to fund it.

00:24:48.380 We're told that on one hand, on the other hand, it's not being taught. This is just in,

00:24:52.260 it's in law school. It's not being taught at all.

00:24:56.400 Well, it's kind of got to be one or the other. And the way that they get away with this is that, um,

00:25:01.360 it's, it's, it's kind of, it's kind of a yes and no to both, to both positions because it's true

00:25:08.620 that, you know, seventh graders in public school aren't being, they're, they're not sitting the

00:25:15.860 seventh graders down and saying, Hey kids, here's this thing called critical race theory.

00:25:19.940 And, uh, we're going to tell you all about it. There isn't any subject or class called critical race

00:25:27.100 theory. That's not happening. And that's how Randy Weingarten gets away with making a claim like

00:25:34.760 this, that technically a thing called, there, there is nothing that we call critical race theory,

00:25:42.240 which is being taught directly to the students. That's something that's a law theory. It goes to

00:25:48.720 law school. Um, and okay, that's true, but no one, no one is claiming that that's what's happening.

00:25:57.100 In fact, critical race theory would be much less of a problem. I still wouldn't want it in the school

00:26:02.000 system, but it'd be much less of a problem if it was actually labeled critical race theory and taught

00:26:08.220 as a subject, as its own thing. I wouldn't like that. I wouldn't want that either, but that would

00:26:15.360 be far less pernicious and damaging than what's actually happening, which is that instead the,

00:26:22.260 the fundamental assumptions of critical race theory are just embedded into the education system

00:26:31.320 and into the curriculum and into everything the kids are taught, especially when it comes to,

00:26:39.380 when it comes to any subject, but especially when it comes to a subject like history,

00:26:43.340 we're going to focus on the sins of the white man. We're going to pretend that slavery was basically

00:26:51.800 an inventive slavery and conquest and colonization. These are unique sins. White people carry unique

00:26:57.680 guilt for it. There is this thing called systemic racism and, uh, and it's, it still exists today.

00:27:06.060 That's all of those things. That's, that's all critical race theory, but they just don't label it that

00:27:13.220 and they are embedded into the education system, but it is definitely there. It is, it is, it's underlying

00:27:25.160 the entire thing. It's, it's foundational now. Critical race theory and also gender theory is another.

00:27:37.000 Kids are, there's, I'm guessing there's probably not a time when kids K through 12 are sat down and told,

00:27:46.420 Hey, uh, here's this, uh, this thing called gender theory. And it was first pioneered by a guy named

00:27:52.220 John Money in the 1950s and sixties. And here's what he was all about. Uh, and, and this is the idea

00:27:57.380 that doesn't happen. I wish that that would happen. I wish that they would tell the kids about John

00:28:03.980 money and can give the, give the real history of gender theory, but they don't instead the

00:28:10.400 assumptions, the philosophical assumptions of gender theory are embedded and they permeate every

00:28:17.240 aspect of the curriculum and the education system. But if gender theory, and I think, uh, you know,

00:28:26.820 the, the right has actually had some success for a change when it comes to critical race

00:28:32.980 theory, bringing it into the public consciousness, branding it as a bad thing, which it is

00:28:39.100 mobilizing people, getting, getting parents upset about this. They're going to the school

00:28:44.800 board meetings. They're speaking out about it. It's been a huge success. The right historically

00:28:48.400 has been very bad at doing that, at mobilizing people, exposing the left's ideas, branding it in the

00:28:55.400 public consciousness that usually the left is there. That's their specialty. So on critical

00:29:01.300 race there, we've had a lot of success there, which is, which is great. Something to be happy

00:29:05.380 about. Um, I hope that next we can move on to gender theory because the, it's the exact same

00:29:10.760 thing that's happening. And we should, it's, that's what it is. It's called gender theory. Put the label

00:29:17.680 on it. It's also a very bad thing. It's, it's even worse than critical race theory in a lot

00:29:23.780 of ways. It's even more damaging because here you're, you're messing with a child's sense of

00:29:31.960 their own identity. You're depriving them of identity. Um, and if we get to the point where

00:29:42.260 this is branded and we're talking about gender theory, people like Randy Weigart, they're going

00:29:47.600 to do the same thing. They're going to come out and say, what are you talking about? We don't tell,

00:29:50.260 we don't discuss gender theory in, in public school and in grade school. That that's it. That's

00:29:56.660 in, you know, that, that's, that's something we talk about in universities. Um, but it won't be

00:30:05.400 true there just like it isn't for critical race theory. All right. Speaking of gender madness,

00:30:10.480 this is something I want to talk about, even though I'm late to the game because I missed some shows.

00:30:14.220 Uh, you may remember the Wii Spa incident. That was, we, we played the video last week. There was a

00:30:21.100 woman at the Wii Spa in Los Angeles. She went into the, uh, women's locker room at the spa and there

00:30:25.780 was a, a man walking around naked and there are kids there and there's women and he's just exposing

00:30:31.740 himself. And then she comes in and confronts the staff and is very upset. Understandably,

00:30:35.940 um, she reacts like anyone should react to that. And the staff says, there's nothing we can do.

00:30:41.760 So on and so forth. Well, there was a protest against the spa over the weekend. Antifa showed

00:30:46.360 up. Things got violent as they always do when Antifa shows up. And here's how NBC reports on what

00:30:52.460 happened. Let me, I'll just read the NBC report to you. Um, demonstrators clashed outside of a Koreatown

00:30:59.040 spa on Saturday after a transgender woman apparently disrobed in an area reserved for women. A few far

00:31:05.380 right protesters appeared to be outnumbered by those favoring transgender rights. Police declared

00:31:11.120 the gathering an unlawful assembly in the afternoon. Um, officers spread out at the scene and LAPD

00:31:16.540 helicopter whirled overhead as demonstrators shouted at each other. And in a few cases, uh, exchange

00:31:22.680 blows according to social media video from the incident. The protest was prompted by an incident

00:31:28.540 captured on video and shared on social media of a woman complaining to Wii Spa USA workers about a

00:31:34.000 trans customer who disrobed and listen to this sentence here, thus displaying her penis in an

00:31:41.320 area where women are nude. Uh, the incident occurred about a week ago. The workers stood by the trans

00:31:46.880 woman and said legally, they cannot discriminate against her, her penis. And then the report

00:31:54.500 continues. Some of the protesters, according to images and videos from the scene include,

00:31:58.200 included a parent QAnon supporters with t-shirts that mentioned the term pedo would, um, a baseless

00:32:04.800 theory about a secret cabal of Satanist child abusers in government entertainment and media. Um,

00:32:10.040 video show demonstrators clashing with each other and with police protesters chance included

00:32:13.900 save our children. Another expression affiliated with QAnon. This is another thing where,

00:32:20.660 where do you even begin with this? Save our children is a QAnon expression.

00:32:24.800 You know, I've been going to pro-life events for 20 years or more and save our children is a really

00:32:33.860 common slogan there. I didn't know that we were all QAnon supporters. This is way before QAnon existed.

00:32:41.300 So now according to NBC, if you, if you want to protect children, you are a far right extremist

00:32:48.520 and even more specific than that, you are a believer in QAnon because you want to protect children.

00:32:54.800 And if in general, you don't think that men should be disrobing in front of women without their

00:33:02.660 consent, then that's far right extremism. But always remember that the people who support this,

00:33:13.640 who would type a phrase like her penis for them, it's all about science. These, this is the pro-science

00:33:20.760 crowd. Well, meanwhile, um, another woman has come forward to talk about her own experience getting

00:33:28.300 sexually harassed, uh, by a trans person at this very same spot. And this woman will play the video

00:33:34.040 for you. She, she, uh, showed up at this protest. She's one of the far right extremists, but as she

00:33:42.760 talks about the video, the video goes on for like nine minutes. She's lives in Los Angeles. She's always

00:33:49.200 voted Democrat. She's very liberal. She says she, she's attended, she goes to pride parades.

00:33:56.580 It's just that she doesn't think that she and her six-year-old daughter should be exposed to naked

00:34:01.640 men. That's all. And that makes this registered Democrat gay pride supporter, a far right extremist.

00:34:11.960 Let's listen to her talk about her experience, uh, at the spa. She went there with, again,

00:34:16.340 her six-year-old daughter and, um, they're in the, the women's side of the spa and everyone's

00:34:23.840 naked, which is what they do at these spas apparently. And she's at a, uh, uh, she's sitting

00:34:28.700 in the hot tub when a man walks in and here's her talking about the story.

00:34:33.220 We're having a great time. We're in there with other women. When a person, I guess, with a penis

00:34:39.840 and a beard came over with two, uh, girlfriends. They appeared to me to be lesbians with tattoos

00:34:48.900 and colored hair. And they appeared, the three of them, to be kind of progressive activist types.

00:34:56.920 They came in with kind of an entitled attitude and they sat down on the edge of the hot tub where I

00:35:04.040 was with my daughter, my six-year-old daughter, who was naked. And the person with the penis sat down

00:35:10.580 on the edge of the hot tub with, uh, just fully on display with his genitals fully on display.

00:35:18.580 And so me and the other women in the hot tub kind of looked each other in the eye and we just kind

00:35:25.300 of made this face like, what the heck? And, uh, you know, we're motioning to my daughter. I'm

00:35:31.220 motioning to my daughter and the women in the hot tub are like, I know what the hell. And, um, you

00:35:37.420 know, we were just uncomfortable. And I was trying to block my daughter from seeing the penis on the

00:35:42.780 person with the five o'clock shadow, who was not trying to look like a woman at all. And we got out

00:35:49.300 of the hot tub and I walked away and I thought it spoke to like a different woman and a woman,

00:35:54.960 this other woman said, um, you know, they spoke to the, this person about covering up,

00:36:00.860 but they refused. And I felt kind of horrified.

00:36:06.400 So this is a, this is a man coming in, uh, five o'clock shadow, everything making no attempt to

00:36:14.120 appear like a woman at all. Not that that matters. Who cares if he did, you know, if he wore a dress

00:36:20.300 on, on the way into the, uh, to the locker room before disrobing, that doesn't make it better.

00:36:25.100 But it, it adds, if it's possible to add to the absurdity and the grotesquerie here, it, it just

00:36:33.320 adds to it. That now you could have men, five o'clock shadow, full on men wearing male, you know,

00:36:40.900 masculine clothing, making no attempt to even appear like women at all. And they can saunter in,

00:36:48.280 take off their clothes, deep voice. Yeah, I'm a woman. And nobody can object or you can object,

00:36:57.900 but it's not going to get you anywhere. And if you do object, you're a far right extremist like this

00:37:02.600 woman. But there she is with her six year old daughter who's naked, just like she is. A man

00:37:11.480 sits down and just takes naked, spreads his legs in front of a six year old girl. This is

00:37:19.160 straightforwardly the direct sexual harassment of a young child by, by a grown adult male.

00:37:31.460 And the left, not only are they okay with it, but this is something that they celebrate.

00:37:36.280 This is a, this is a wonderful thing. This man is living his truth or living her truth,

00:37:43.900 they would say. So keep that in mind because when you hear people worry that we're headed to a point

00:37:53.560 where, um, we're normalizing pedophilia. Okay. You should know that that that's crazy talk. Okay.

00:38:00.900 That is crazy talk. We are not heading to a point in the future where we're going to, we're going to see

00:38:05.020 the normalization of pedophilia. The left is not going to eventually start advocating for and

00:38:11.120 normalizing pedophilia. That, that is, that is absolutely insane. You should not be saying that

00:38:14.980 because they're doing it now. Okay. That's not something they're going to do in the future.

00:38:21.520 It's happening right now as we speak. When you can have a grown man take off his clothing and get

00:38:29.260 fully nude in front of a, in front of a six-year-old girl and expose himself to her directly.

00:38:37.360 And the left says that you're, you, you can't even object to that. This is a wonderful thing.

00:38:43.820 When we get to that point, which is where we are, then we are in a spot where, where pedophilia is

00:38:49.400 being normalized. They're doing it right now. We don't have to look down the slippery slope and start

00:38:56.640 conjecturing and say, well, you know, if we keep going down this slope, here's where we're going

00:39:01.020 to end up. Nope. We're there. Um, and, and, and this, this is what it looks like.

00:39:12.200 Look, the, the normalization, this is how normalization always goes. Any time of normal,

00:39:17.580 normalizing any form of degeneracy or evil, they're, they're never going to do it directly.

00:39:26.920 And they're never going to use the same kinds of labels and terms that you use to describe the

00:39:31.540 thing. So of course the left was, was never going to come out and say, yeah, pedophilia is a good

00:39:36.780 thing. We're never going to do that. They're not going to use that word.

00:39:40.660 That word is, is forever associated has, has bad association for everyone in the world.

00:39:52.040 They can't rescue that term. So they're not going to use it. But what else could you possibly call this?

00:40:02.380 In fact, I'm, you know, I'm, I may be even understating the case a little bit because I'm

00:40:06.840 saying this is sexual harassment of a child as a man to expose yourself to a young child as sexual

00:40:13.960 harassment. Um, I think it would be more appropriate to say this is sexual assault.

00:40:19.680 And in any other circumstance, the left would, would have no issue with that characterization.

00:40:28.660 If this was a quote unquote cisgender male who just takes off his clothes in front of a six-year-old

00:40:35.360 girl, I think we would all be able to agree that is, that is harassment. It's also, it's also assault.

00:40:42.000 You're assaulting her. But if the man, um, in his head allegedly feels like a woman while he's doing

00:40:51.500 it, then it's okay. All right, let's move on, um, from, from that for now. One more story before we

00:41:03.500 get to reading the comments, this is, uh, well, I'll just read you the story and I'll let you react

00:41:12.200 to it. However you do. And then I'll, and then I'll let you know what the correct reaction should

00:41:15.060 be. All right. Um, it says a peacock that had been a staple in a California neighborhood for years

00:41:21.400 was found shot dead after someone posted a Craigslist ad, taking out a hit on the bird.

00:41:26.760 According to local reports, the online posting went up on June 13th, a little more than two weeks

00:41:32.360 before the peacock nickname, Mr. P or Azul was apparently killed in Humboldt County. Resident

00:41:39.560 Melissa glass told the newspaper. It's really sad because he probably suffered for at least two or

00:41:43.720 three hours before he died. Possibly more glass said that one of the neighbor's daughters had

00:41:47.840 actually recalled seeing a Craigslist ad in search of a peacock assassin. The ad, which was first reported

00:41:53.660 by local outlet, lost coast outpost had appeared in Craigslist wanted section with the title

00:41:58.700 someone to get rid of a peacock adding. It wanted the animal dead by any means necessary.

00:42:05.020 The author claimed that the bird had first appeared in the neighborhood four months ago and complained

00:42:08.640 about being awakened by its calls. The ad read quote, please contact me so we can form a strategy to

00:42:14.160 eliminate this bird and also to agree on how much you'll be compensated. Um, but glass told the night,

00:42:19.960 the times that the peacock began visiting her, uh, uh, neighborhood six years ago and often came by

00:42:24.700 her house because it likes spending time with the chicken she owns. Um, and, uh, then finally this

00:42:31.560 ad shows up in, in, on Craigslist calling for an assassin for the peacock assassin. And I guess someone

00:42:38.120 actually takes it upon themselves to respond to this cry for help. The bat signal went up and, and

00:42:45.120 someone assumed the role of Batman and came in and vanquished this villain. Now, but now we're being

00:42:53.380 told, we're all going back to the article says the Humboldt County Sheriff's office said the deputies

00:42:57.880 are investigating the incident and that a potential suspect had been identified. Deputies said, quote,

00:43:03.020 the crimes currently being investigated are animal cruelty and conspiracy to commit a crime.

00:43:08.240 This I think is one of the great injustices of, of our time. Arguably you have this hero, I, maybe two

00:43:18.380 heroes taking care of this problem. And now we're going to charge them with a crime for killing a

00:43:27.020 peacock. By the way, the only reason they're getting charged with a crime is because the peacock has pretty

00:43:30.960 feathers. That's the only reason if this was like a vulture or a crow or even like a wild turkey,

00:43:37.920 some ugly animal that doesn't have pretty colors and they were in the neighborhood and someone shot

00:43:44.680 and killed them. No one would have a problem. There'd be no criminal charges. So the actual crime

00:43:50.000 here is that you killed something that was pretty. It was pretty and people like looking at it.

00:43:56.000 And now we're going to charge you with a felony. I don't know if these are felonies,

00:43:58.660 but we're charging with a crime. Now, if you think that I'm being, uh, that this is, this is a harsh

00:44:06.180 to defend, uh, the, the assassin of an innocent peacock. I just want, I went to YouTube because,

00:44:12.100 you know, I'm something of a peacock expert myself. You might not be. Um, maybe the only

00:44:18.620 thing you know about peacocks is that they have pretty feathers. Well, I want you, I went to YouTube

00:44:23.120 and I found a video that has the call of a peacock just so you can see in here rather what this sounds

00:44:28.400 like. We play this video. Here's what a peacock sounds like. I don't know why this YouTube video

00:44:37.040 exists. There are actually a lot of YouTube videos of peacock sounds. I don't know who all these weirdos

00:44:42.560 are who need, you know, 10 minute videos of what a peacock sounds like. I guess I'm one of the weirdos.

00:44:47.480 Anyway, listen to this. Listen to this. Okay. Now imagine, imagine this for six years, six years,

00:45:01.380 this damn animal is coming into your neighborhood and making this sound at all hours of the day and

00:45:08.280 night and early in the morning. And your neighbors are encouraging it. They're leaving food out.

00:45:16.080 They're petting it, taking pictures. And you were just tormented by this sound for six years.

00:45:25.120 Okay. We can turn that off. Turn it off. Uh, you get the idea. A really annoying sound.

00:45:31.780 Even as, even, I mean, all animal sounds are annoying, but this one is pretty bad.

00:45:38.700 And he takes the initiative and now we're going to charge him with a crime. I just find that outrageous.

00:45:41.940 All right. Let's, uh, go now to reading the YouTube comments. Um, toothpaste juice. Great

00:45:50.400 username says Matt was wrong about charcoal. Wood chips are also a good alternative to the devil's

00:45:54.920 propane. Yeah. I'll allow wood chips. Uh, you know, and as long as you're starting a, you have some kind

00:46:01.120 of actual physical fuel that you're, you know, lighting on fire. Wood chips are fine. Charcoal

00:46:08.160 propane does not count. If you say that you're grilling out or you're cooking out or something

00:46:14.800 and you're using propane, no, you're not. If you have a, you might as well just use a gas stove.

00:46:19.480 There's no reason to even use the grill. Um, Edward says, I used to be a teller at PNC. We're

00:46:25.720 insanely carefully monitored. Every move we make, every 10th transaction down to the last penny is

00:46:30.640 tracked. So I agree. Teachers should be watched. Our kids are far more important than money

00:46:34.420 and deserve to be protected as such. Yeah. This is why I think it's just common sense.

00:46:42.600 You think about all the scenarios where we use cameras and usually we're using cameras because

00:46:50.080 there is something being handled or, or dealt with that we place a high value on money, our pets,

00:46:59.760 like we talked about yesterday. So why not our kids? Uh, we, we see this, this kind of double

00:47:09.200 standard or this blind spot, not just with cameras, also with, uh, with guns. You know, the same people

00:47:17.000 who object to cameras in the school, a lot of these are the same people who, who, who object to, uh,

00:47:22.300 having any kind of armed security in the school. Well, we can't have that yet. They have armed

00:47:30.620 security at banks. They have armed security in almost any government building you walk into.

00:47:38.620 We use armed security to protect money, to protect physical objects. We use armed security to protect

00:47:44.560 politicians. You can, you can go to the social security office and there's going to be an armed

00:47:50.160 security guards in there protecting what documents, pieces of paper, and we won't use it for our kids.

00:47:59.280 So for all of those things, money, documents, politicians, we've got cameras, we've got armed

00:48:06.480 security because we, we really want to protect these people and these objects, but we don't do it

00:48:13.360 for kids. That doesn't make any sense to me at all. Uh, Haley says, I just realized that the pink and

00:48:18.920 blue alien thing in the background has the exact same colors as the bisexual pride flag. Matt,

00:48:23.960 please explain yourself immediately and stop with this virtue signaling. I don't,

00:48:29.820 I accept this is, this is the aliens that lived experience and his truth, and I'm going to accept

00:48:36.660 him for who he is. Now, if you can't do that, then you're, you're banned from the show.

00:48:41.600 Uh, Sam says, Matt, our NICU at our local hospital had video cameras that only parents

00:48:47.740 could access. So many areas are implementing more accountability. School makes sense. I think COVID

00:48:51.820 was good in a sense that it finally got parents to see what's being taught. Yeah. Um, NICU is a

00:48:58.260 very, another, another, another good example. Our twins were in the NICU for only about 24 hours,

00:49:03.500 thank God. But yeah, there's cameras there and no one, you have cameras in the NICU. No one objects

00:49:11.580 to that. And also it's not as though it's a, a live webcam on YouTube that anyone can access,

00:49:18.380 but you get a password if you're a parent of the child and you can check in when you want.

00:49:25.060 Why can't we do the same thing with, uh, with kids? You give, you give password to the password

00:49:33.460 to parents who have custody of the children and they're able to access it. That's just one of the

00:49:40.520 measures you could put in place to protect the privacy of the kids. We talked yesterday about

00:49:43.660 other things you could do. Um, let's see. Finally, uh, or not finally, but another comment says as a

00:49:51.940 college history teacher, I would feel uncomfortable with cameras in the classroom. Not so much for my

00:49:55.840 sake. Um, after all, I already appear in videos on my YouTube channel and I guess to appear in videos

00:50:01.540 on other channels, but for putting in a sly little, uh, plug for your YouTube channel, I respect that.

00:50:06.820 But for the students' privacy in a class discussion, students should be able to respond to questions and

00:50:11.240 express themselves without worrying that they'll show up on YouTube slash Twitter, et cetera, and then get

00:50:15.420 canceled for some nonsensical reason. I wouldn't have any issue with parents seeing class syllabi or course

00:50:20.140 materials. Would you want your classes recorded? Or are you only referring to K through 12? Yeah,

00:50:24.160 I'm only referring to K through 12 because these are kids and this is also a government building.

00:50:31.260 And that's why I think you need the cameras there. But as far as not wanting this stuff to end up on

00:50:36.580 Twitter and YouTube, all that, all that, well, that's why you have the pat, you have it password

00:50:39.960 protected. You have the camera only trained on the front of the classroom. You could even only give

00:50:45.820 access to the audio. It could be an audio only thing. And then if there's an incident or something

00:50:51.000 happens, a controversy, then you can go and maybe the, the full video will be released like they do

00:50:56.480 with, with, uh, body cams. Um, and finally username hippie enigma says, I know you don't care,

00:51:05.600 but you lost a fan for this nonsense, Matt Walsh. Well, I do care hippie enigma. That's where you're

00:51:12.620 wrong. I care deeply. Please don't leave me. I'll change. I promise. Don't leave. Please, please.

00:51:22.640 Well, it's okay. We'll move on. Actually. I think I'll find, I'll find a way to, to pick up and move

00:51:29.820 on with my life, even as we, we go our separate ways. Though it is very sad to lose you. I've been

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00:54:09.760 I have to admit, I'm sort of jealous of a leftist pundits, media personalities, columnists,

00:54:14.540 because they've set up a system that makes things easy for them. And also it was kind of fun. I think

00:54:18.420 the formula is simple. Um, and, uh, if you don't have any material to talk about or write about on

00:54:23.300 any given day, all you need to do is pull a random word, idea, action, phrase, whatever out of a bag

00:54:30.120 and come up with a reason why that thing is racist or otherwise bigoted. It's like a fun word

00:54:34.760 association game. It's like apples to apples or something, except every word is associated with

00:54:38.380 racism. All you have to do is explain why, uh, explain why it's racist, which is where the fun comes

00:54:43.720 in along with the profits. So there's a slow news day. Well, no problem. Just write up an op-ed or do

00:54:48.380 a cable news hit to explain why, I don't know, sea cucumbers are racist or why mashed potatoes

00:54:53.880 perpetuate gender inequality or why the number 76 is transphobic. The sky is the limit. And the sky is

00:55:01.660 also, of course, racist. G. Daniela Galarraza, food writer for the Washington Post, decided to play

00:55:07.140 this game in a piece published this week titled Stop Calling Food Exotic. Now note how these titles

00:55:14.060 never say, please stop, or maybe you should stop, or here's why I personally don't like this thing.

00:55:21.360 It's always stop doing it. You have no choice. I have decreed and now you must obey. As a theocratic

00:55:28.260 fascist myself, I can appreciate that style. But in any case, here's what Daniela says. She says,

00:55:33.240 quote, one of the nicest things about Afghan restaurants is that they appeal to even the

00:55:38.160 most timid of diners. Mark and Gail Barnett wrote in the May 16th, 1993 edition of the Post,

00:55:44.360 your visiting aunt from Spokane, Washington can enjoy the adventure of an exotic cuisine with the

00:55:48.980 reassurance of familiar looking food. The Barnetts meant no harm, no foul when they put the word exotic

00:55:55.460 in their review of Bethesda's Sunrise Kebab, but their presumptive Anglo-centric perspective on a

00:56:00.860 cuisine based in South Asia says more about how they saw the world than about the cuisine itself.

00:56:07.380 Okay, now pausing here, the writer is, if you're a little confused, the writer is going back 28 years

00:56:12.700 to some food column written 28 years ago in order to make her point. If that seems like a hell of a

00:56:19.040 reach, I mean it is, but don't worry because she also has random emails from readers that she uses to

00:56:24.320 prove her point. So you add together the emails and this review of a kebab shop in Bethesda

00:56:28.820 in 1993, and we've got ourselves a full-on crisis. She continues, quote,

00:56:34.820 After I wrote about a seven-minute, seven-ingredient ramen in early March, I received the first of

00:56:40.200 several emails from readers complaining or gently chiding me for including exotic spices or condiments in

00:56:46.680 my Eat Voraciously newsletter. Your offerings tend to be exotic foreign cuisine that we wouldn't even order

00:56:52.420 in a restaurant and certainly aren't interested in cooking at home, one reader wrote. Another complained about

00:56:57.300 the exotic ingredients in some recipes and asked if I could, quote, please try to pick some recipes

00:57:01.680 featuring ingredients that are readily available. Reading the word hit me like a slap, and initially,

00:57:07.360 I wasn't even sure why. Did they think the dish sounded odd or disgusting, or were these ingredients

00:57:12.660 simply hard for them to find? The first problem with the word exotic is that probably within the past

00:57:18.280 two decades, it's lost its essential meaning. The second, more crucial problem is that its use,

00:57:22.600 particularly as applied to food, indirectly lengthens the metaphysical distance between

00:57:27.060 one group of humans and another, and in so doing, reinforces xenophobia and racism.

00:57:32.640 Now, the article goes on for many more paragraphs explaining why, as she puts it, the use of the

00:57:37.120 word exotic tends to, quote, ostracize the other in the service of empowering oneself. I'm not going to

00:57:43.280 read much more from the article to spare you the pain, but I do want to share just this piece towards

00:57:47.000 the end. She says, she's quoting now someone, she says, I have never heard the word exotic used in

00:57:52.700 reference to something that is white, says Chandra D. L. Waring, professor of sociology at University of

00:57:57.340 Massachusetts Lowell. You know that exotic means other or different from a dominant white perspective

00:58:02.840 because no one ever says, I'm going to go on an exotic vacation. I'm going to Lowell, Massachusetts.

00:58:09.340 No one ever says, let's go to that exotic new restaurant. Let's go to McDonald's.

00:58:12.960 Now, yes, you probably have never heard someone call McDonald's exotic. That's because exotic is

00:58:19.720 a word with a definition, and the definition is, quote, originating in or characteristic of

00:58:27.000 a distant foreign country. McDonald's does not originate in a foreign country. It originates in

00:58:32.320 Los Angeles County. And there are McDonald's every 14 feet in America, so no part of the McDonald's

00:58:37.380 experience could possibly feel exotic or foreign, except maybe when you bite into your Big Mac and end

00:58:42.880 up with some kind of foreign unexpected object in your mouth, like a piece of hair or a toenail

00:58:47.400 clipping. It also may be true that you've never heard someone in, say, Japan or Vietnam or Somalia

00:58:53.540 describe American things as exotic. Do you know why that is? Well, it's because exotic is an English

00:59:00.600 word, and they speak other languages in those countries and have different words to describe

00:59:05.760 things that are foreign. But they certainly do have some kind of word for that concept, and I can

00:59:11.080 guarantee they use it freely, and nobody ever stops to wonder whether its use is ostracizing or

00:59:16.320 offensive. Words like exotic and foreign and alien and different, they are by definition subjective,

00:59:24.080 which doesn't make them wrong or offensive. It just means that whenever someone is using them,

00:59:30.600 they are referring to their own relationship to that thing. A space alien is a space alien to us

00:59:37.820 on Earth when he's flying his big tic-tac through the sky while Navy pilots film it. But he's not a

00:59:43.680 space alien back on planet Zepton or wherever. To him, we're the aliens. To us, he's the alien.

00:59:49.700 The same concept applies in more Earth-bound situations. To us, food from a country 5,000 miles

00:59:55.760 away is exotic, foreign, maybe strange. To the people who live there, it's just lunch.

01:00:02.360 And to them, our food and customs might be strange. The only difference is that the foreigner

01:00:08.300 is allowed to make those subjective judgments about us while we're not supposed to make it about

01:00:14.940 them. And that's really what's going on here, right? People like the writer of this article,

01:00:19.740 they always tell us to respect the lived experience that is the subjective experience

01:00:24.020 of supposedly oppressed and marginalized minorities. But the supposedly non-oppressed groups,

01:00:29.340 and there's just one white people, are apparently not allowed to have subjective experiences at all.

01:00:35.320 At least we're supposed to speak and behave as if we don't. Everybody else can see the world through

01:00:41.020 their own lens and talk about things, describe things, label things in that way. We, on the other

01:00:46.460 hand, are supposed to view the world like detached, lifeless, inorganic robots. There's no exotic food,

01:00:53.540 only food, only food. No foreign people, only people. No difference, only sameness. Our entire

01:01:00.900 subjective state has been declared problematic. The only question then is whether you care about

01:01:08.400 these declarations or respect the imagined authority of people like this Washington Post writer when they

01:01:13.520 tell you to stop doing these things. And I can tell you for sure that I, for one, do not.

01:01:19.660 And that's why I can say to her today, you are canceled. And there's the peacock again.

01:01:30.560 The peacock is also canceled, and righteously so. We'll leave it there today. Thanks for watching.

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Ep. 749 - They're Coming For Your Children

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