The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 819 - Secretary Buttigieg Disappears For Two Months And Nobody Notices

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, Texas recently passed a bill banning racist concepts like critical race theory from the classroom.

00:00:07.540 The media is now claiming that this rule, this bill, somehow requires Holocaust denial.

00:00:12.820 We'll try to figure out what the hell they're talking about today.

00:00:15.160 Also, the Secretary of Transportation, Buttigieg, has been on paternity leave for two months and nobody noticed.

00:00:21.620 What does that say about the necessity of his job? And also, what about paternity leave in the first place?

00:00:25.980 Because we'll talk about that. And Amazon's new Lord of the Rings series promises to include a cast of racially diverse hobbits.

00:00:32.620 Plus, Joe Biden announces that your five year old will soon be eligible for the COVID vaccine.

00:00:36.900 And a home insurance ad features a young boy in drag.

00:00:40.140 What does that have to do with home insurance? Exactly. We'll try to figure that out today and much more on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:02:06.720 As you have noticed, especially if you listen to this show, there's been a lot of attention recently on left-wing indoctrination in schools and abuses of power by left-wing administrators.

00:02:16.820 The corporate media has ignored these issues as much as it possibly can.

00:02:19.800 Most outlets have totally refused to report on the developments in Loudoun County.

00:02:24.240 Most of them have just said nothing at all about it.

00:02:26.420 The Washington Post did mention the case in an article yesterday.

00:02:29.860 But the article doesn't say that the assault happened in a bathroom.

00:02:33.100 It doesn't mention anything about the bathroom policies Loudoun County pushed through.

00:02:37.740 It doesn't mention that the alleged rapist was reportedly wearing a skirt.

00:02:40.840 It doesn't say anything about Scott Smith, the father who was framed as a domestic terrorist because he got upset that his daughter was assaulted.

00:02:46.960 In other words, the Washington Post reported on the story without actually reporting on the story.

00:02:52.360 And even that was far more than what most corporate media outlets have been willing to do.

00:02:57.320 Still, ignore it as much as they want.

00:02:59.380 But leftist indoctrination and corruption in schools has become a major issue.

00:03:04.600 People are clued in.

00:03:06.020 They are awakened to the problem.

00:03:08.560 And that's why the media's next strategy, since the blackout strategy hasn't worked,

00:03:12.180 I mean, that's always their first go-to.

00:03:14.820 If there's a story they don't want to talk about, the most obvious thing is, well, we're not going to talk about it.

00:03:20.520 If that doesn't work, then they need to get a little bit more desperate.

00:03:23.720 And that's when you get to the classic diversion tactic.

00:03:26.360 And that's why, if you were to check CNN or NBC News or The Huffington Post or AOC's Twitter feed yesterday or this morning,

00:03:34.000 you would have seen huge screaming headlines telling us about this story.

00:03:40.200 This is from the NBC story that AOC shared.

00:03:42.740 It says,

00:03:42.980 Now, AOC, when she was sharing this, adds this comment.

00:03:56.300 She says,

00:03:56.640 Now, this has been treated as a major story.

00:04:17.180 A teacher in a school district in Texas secretly recorded a meeting with a woman named Gina Petty,

00:04:24.700 who's the district's executive director of curriculum and instruction.

00:04:28.220 In the meeting, Petty is telling the teachers about the new Texas law, HB 3979,

00:04:33.680 which effectively bans critical race theory.

00:04:37.140 And that bill does a lot more than that.

00:04:39.000 We'll get to the bill in a minute and what it actually does.

00:04:41.660 But Petty is explaining to the teachers what this bill requires and its implications.

00:04:47.880 Petty, it's clear from the audio, doesn't like the bill.

00:04:52.040 She also doesn't understand the bill, or at least isn't telling the truth about it, whether intentionally or not.

00:04:58.200 And so the school administrator, in the context of explaining a Texas bill that she doesn't like and is misconstrued,

00:05:04.380 makes this claim to the teachers about the Holocaust.

00:05:07.040 Let's listen to the audio now.

00:05:08.880 We are in the middle of a political mess.

00:05:14.860 And you are in the middle of a political mess.

00:05:18.980 And so we just have to do the best that we can.

00:05:21.820 And so we're going to go and we're going to do, you're going to do what you do best, and that's to teach kids.

00:05:29.040 I think we're all just really terrified.

00:05:31.100 I think you are terrified.

00:05:32.440 And I wish I could take that away.

00:05:35.400 I do.

00:05:36.440 I can't.

00:05:37.580 I can't do that.

00:05:38.640 You are professionals.

00:05:40.300 We hired you as professionals.

00:05:43.960 We trust you with our children.

00:05:46.720 So if you think the book is okay, then let's go with it.

00:05:51.620 And whatever happens, we will fight it together.

00:05:54.640 We will.

00:05:55.180 There's a lot of districts that are in the exact same spot we're in.

00:05:58.280 And no one knows how to navigate these waters.

00:06:01.540 I mean, no one.

00:06:02.480 As you go through, just try to remember the concepts of 3979 and make sure that if you have a book on the Holocaust, that you have one that has opposing, that has other books.

00:06:14.260 How do you oppose the Holocaust? 0.90

00:06:15.980 What?

00:06:17.060 Believe me, that's come up.

00:06:18.660 So number the stars.

00:06:20.980 No.

00:06:21.380 No.

00:06:22.380 Okay.

00:06:24.620 So you hear at the end there, if you have a book on the Holocaust, make sure you have a book that has the opposing perspective.

00:06:28.420 That's what the petty there says.

00:06:31.200 Now, an important point.

00:06:32.540 The Texas bill absolutely does not require that schools give opposing perspectives on the Holocaust.

00:06:37.980 It's not what the bill does.

00:06:39.120 That's total nonsense.

00:06:40.240 The story here is that Texas passed a law banning the political and racial indoctrination of children in schools, which would include an effective ban on critical race theory, though that's not the sole focus of the legislation.

00:06:54.200 The school administrator doesn't like the bill and caricatured it to her teachers, thereby misinforming them about what is actually required of them.

00:07:01.480 That's the story, if it's a story at all.

00:07:04.220 But that's not what the media wants us to take from this.

00:07:07.080 They want us to believe that the administrator's interpretation is correct, that this bill banning critical race theory actually prevents teachers from talking about the evils of racism at all.

00:07:16.780 In fact, the Huffington Post headline about this bill when it was passed back in June said exactly that.

00:07:21.640 Their headline was, Texas governor signs law to stop teachers from talking about racism.

00:07:26.500 Now, if that was what the bill accomplished, then, yeah, I suppose you'd have to talk about the Holocaust objectively, quote unquote, and give two sides to the issue of whether or not Jews should be exterminated.

00:07:38.260 But that's not what the bill says.

00:07:40.820 Here's what it says.

00:07:41.600 I'll read it.

00:07:42.040 I'll read the relevant portion to you.

00:07:43.340 This is what it says.

00:07:43.920 Quote, for any social studies course in the required curriculum, a teacher may not be compelled to discuss a particular event or widely debated and currently controversial issue of public policy or social affairs.

00:07:56.320 A teacher who chooses to discuss such a topic shall, to the best of the teacher's ability, strive to explore the topic from diverse and contending perspectives without giving deference to anyone to any one perspective.

00:08:07.560 Okay, so this is about widely debated current events.

00:08:12.640 Is the Holocaust a widely debated current event?

00:08:16.680 No.

00:08:19.100 The point in this legislation is that if a teacher is going to talk about some kind of controversial current event, say vaccine mandates or gun control or whatever, they should encourage the students to look at it from different perspectives and they shouldn't force their perspectives on their students.

00:08:33.840 That's all.

00:08:34.360 Now, the media has decided that if teachers can't impose their political views on students, then that means somehow they can't even say the Holocaust was bad.

00:08:43.620 This is what we call a reductio ad absurdum argument, taking an entirely reasonable idea like teachers shouldn't bring their political biases into the classroom and reducing it to an absurdity by claiming that this would somehow entail Holocaust denial.

00:08:57.020 As for the claim that the Texas bill stops teachers from talking about racism, I mean, that's not a reduction to the absurd so much as just a flat out lie.

00:09:05.900 In fact, the bill specifically instructs schools to teach students about a range of historical subjects and subjects related to civics, including this from the legislation.

00:09:14.240 This is what it says.

00:09:14.860 As something that they're supposed to teach, quote, the history of white supremacy, including but not limited to the institution of slavery, the eugenics movement and the KKK and the ways in which it is morally wrong.

00:09:26.160 So while the media Democrats say that the bill bans teachers from talking about racism and actually instructs them to talk about it right there in plain language.

00:09:38.260 In fact, in that Huffington Post article that says teachers are banned from talking about racism, they do include the bill itself that you can read and you just read the bill and it says the opposite of the headline.

00:09:53.640 Not only that, but it bans the practice of racism in the classroom.

00:09:59.240 So you talk about racism, but you can't actually be racist in the classroom as a teacher.

00:10:03.900 That's what the bill says again from the legislation.

00:10:06.840 It says that teachers shall not, quote, be required to engage in training, orientation or therapy that presents any form of race or sex stereotyping or blame on the basis of race or sex or require or make part of a course.

00:10:21.480 The concept that one race or sex is inherently superior or that an individual by virtue of the individual's race or sex is inherently racist, sexist or oppressive.

00:10:30.340 That's again in the bill.

00:10:33.120 This is not a prohibition of the discussion of racism in the classroom.

00:10:37.800 It's a prohibition of racism itself in the classroom.

00:10:41.560 A teacher could talk about racism, but it can't actually be racist or teach racist concepts.

00:10:47.420 So the reality, as always, is exactly the opposite of what the media presents.

00:10:50.900 And this is their real problem with the bill, by the way, the kind of racism just described, casting blame and guilt on the basis of race.

00:11:01.100 That's exactly what the media and Democrats want in the classroom.

00:11:06.400 That's what Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants in the classroom. 1.00

00:11:10.440 And everywhere else in society.

00:11:13.020 And no matter what else, whatever else they say or claim, that's their real problem with it.

00:11:18.460 Now let's get to our five headlines.

00:11:20.900 We'll see you next time.

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00:13:18.820 Now, let's move on.

00:13:21.100 And if you're just listening to the audio, you have no idea what you just missed.

00:13:23.940 You'll never know.

00:13:25.640 We'll start with this.

00:13:26.800 This is kind of an interesting case.

00:13:28.560 And I have a few different angles to attack this story from.

00:13:34.740 But we'll start with the Daily Wire report.

00:13:36.580 It says, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has reportedly been on paid leave for months as the U.S. is facing a historic supply chain crisis that is causing pain for Americans throughout the course of their daily lives.

00:13:49.080 Politico reported, quote, while U.S. ports face anchor-to-anchor traffic and Congress nearly melted down over the president's infrastructure bill in recent weeks,

00:13:56.200 the usually omnipresent transportation secretary, Buttigieg, was lying low.

00:14:00.620 They didn't previously announce it, but Buttigieg's office told West Wing Playbook that the secretary has actually been on paid leave since mid-August to spend time with his husband, Chasen, and their two newborn babies.

00:14:13.300 A spokesperson for the department told Politico that Buttigieg was mostly offline for the first four weeks,

00:14:18.300 except for major agency decisions and matters that could not be delegated.

00:14:22.340 He's been ramping up the activities since then, according to a spokesperson, adding that Buttigieg will continue to take some time over the coming weeks to support his husband and take care of his new children.

00:14:33.020 Senator Marsha Blackburn, right here in Tennessee, slammed Buttigieg in a statement to Breitbart News on Thursday, saying,

00:14:43.720 we're in the middle of a transportation crisis and Pete Buttigieg is sitting at home.

00:14:46.820 Meanwhile, cargo boats are unable to dock and shelves are sitting empty.

00:14:50.600 Pete needs to either get back to work or leave the Department of Transportation.

00:14:53.600 It's time to put American families first.

00:14:56.120 Okay, so this is pretty incredible.

00:14:59.840 We're in the middle of a transportation crisis and the transportation secretary has been at home since mid-August with no plans of returning.

00:15:11.040 It's been two months and he's saying, well, he's going to start ramping up activities now.

00:15:15.420 Start ramping it up.

00:15:18.180 So he's two months into his paternity leave where he's getting paid to sit at home with no plans of returning yet.

00:15:24.940 And meanwhile, this is a cabinet secretary, someone appointed by the Biden administration, has been off the job since the middle of August and nobody even noticed until right now.

00:15:40.840 That's a government job for you.

00:15:44.660 Okay, that is a job, that is a bureaucracy for you.

00:15:48.980 Where you can disappear for two months and it'll be eight weeks before anyone says, hey, whatever happened to that guy?

00:15:57.780 Which guy?

00:15:58.300 Oh, you know, Buttigieg, I mean the guy that runs this whole thing.

00:16:01.200 Oh yeah, we haven't really seen him around.

00:16:02.840 Then they give him a call.

00:16:06.020 Oh yeah, guys, I've been here since, I've been here since August.

00:16:09.700 That's, that's the way it works in a bureaucracy.

00:16:12.820 I mean, it can't work that way in the private sector, right?

00:16:16.780 Because, you know, you have a job where you actually have to perform a function and you're needed to do a certain thing.

00:16:24.020 And if you, and if you don't do the job, people are going to notice.

00:16:27.100 Um, I'm just a podcast host for God's sake, but, but I'm pretty sure that if I didn't show, I don't think I could not show up to work for, for two months and nobody would notice.

00:16:41.520 Um, so he gets two months and counting of paid paternity leave.

00:16:48.220 And I think, so there's, there's a couple of things that this tells us.

00:16:52.740 First of all, if you are able to disappear from your job for two months and nobody notices, then that's a really good indication that your job is not necessary.

00:17:07.660 Okay.

00:17:08.140 You're, you're, if, if there, if there are jobs in government where we can afford to lose you for two months, then that job needs to be gone.

00:17:16.060 Um, we need to eliminate that job. 1.00

00:17:21.700 Um, what about paternity leave itself?

00:17:25.800 Okay.

00:17:26.700 Now, as you know, I, I speak on this subject as a, as a, as a man with four kids.

00:17:32.540 So, um, I know of what I speak.

00:17:35.500 And this is one of those issues where you've got a lot of childless people who are chiming in and it's very clear that they're childless because they, they don't know what they're talking about.

00:17:46.060 So I'll say about paternity leave. 0.72

00:17:47.220 First of all, for, for public employees, you're working for the government.

00:17:51.760 You're on the taxpayer dime.

00:17:54.620 I'm not, you know, I'll be generous.

00:17:56.340 I'm, I'm the boss, right?

00:17:57.800 You're the boss.

00:17:58.260 We're the boss.

00:17:58.880 We're the one paying the, the, uh, the salaries here.

00:18:01.220 We're supposed to be the bosses.

00:18:02.320 And so as the boss is paying the salary, my, your salary as a public employee, that comes out of my check.

00:18:10.260 I got to pay for that.

00:18:12.480 And no, I'm not paying for you to sit home for two months.

00:18:16.500 I'm not paying for that.

00:18:17.840 I shouldn't have to pay for that.

00:18:19.160 Um, so for public employees, we could be generous and say, fine, you want to take paternity leave for a week?

00:18:30.060 Uh, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll go that far.

00:18:34.600 That's, that's what a generous person I am.

00:18:36.640 Two months is insane.

00:18:38.020 There should not be anyone on the public taxpayer dime sitting home and not doing their job for two months.

00:18:47.900 I mean, you want to sit home and prioritize your family and just be with your family.

00:18:52.200 You're perfectly free to do that, but we got to find someone else because the public needs this job to be done.

00:19:00.140 And we can't afford to pay you to, to not do it.

00:19:02.720 And again, if we don't need this job to be done so we can afford it, then the job should just be eliminated.

00:19:08.400 Completely.

00:19:10.060 We, we, the public either needs that job done or not.

00:19:14.620 And if we need it done, then do it.

00:19:19.020 Um, even in the private sector, I mean, you know, private companies can come up with whatever, whatever paternity leave policies they want.

00:19:27.960 And if you work for a company that will let you stay home on paternity leave for two months, then I mean, God bless you.

00:19:33.460 I guess take advantage of that.

00:19:34.600 But two months in general, you know, months of paternity leave is, it really is absurd. 0.54

00:19:41.260 I'm sorry.

00:19:42.680 Again, speaking as a father of four, I can tell you, okay.

00:19:45.300 There is very little for a father to do in the, in the, in the early stages of a child's life.

00:19:53.620 In the newborn phase, there's not much for a father to do, especially if the mother's breastfeeding. 0.99

00:19:58.700 Um, and if the mother presumably is taking maternity leave and she's, and she's breastfeeding, then, um, all here's, here's what a baby, here's what a newborn baby does.

00:20:06.740 After four of them, I can tell you, uh, a newborn baby eats and, uh, sleeps.

00:20:12.500 And poops, but that, those are the only things that a newborn baby doesn't, newborn baby doesn't do anything but that. 0.99

00:20:18.900 That's it.

00:20:21.020 And sleeping, the baby's sleeping, eating that, the mom's going to take care of that. 0.99

00:20:25.640 And yeah, I mean, you could be on the hook to change the poopy diapers and so that you could be helpful in that regard.

00:20:29.760 But that's pretty much it for a newborn baby.

00:20:35.700 Um, as far as bonding time, I, you know, I was talking about this on Twitter and people were saying, well, it's also the father needs bonding time.

00:20:42.740 Okay.

00:20:43.140 Yeah.

00:20:43.320 You want to stay home for a week and have some bonding time. 0.73

00:20:44.980 That's why I mean, two months of two months of bonding time where you're still getting paid to not work is ridiculous.

00:20:51.340 But even that, again, I'm just telling you that there's not a lot of bonding that the father is going to do in that, in those early stages of life.

00:21:00.660 Because the newborn baby is all about the mom.

00:21:04.220 That's, that's just the reality.

00:21:07.440 For the father, the, the really important bonding time comes a little bit later in life.

00:21:11.440 I mean, if anything, if we're talking about paternity leave for bonding time, then that should start like at their, when they, at their first birthday or something.

00:21:19.900 That, that's when the, when the most important bonding time for the father really kicks in a little bit later in the child's life.

00:21:27.480 So we should be talking about that if that's what, if that's what this is all about.

00:21:31.840 But you know, the great news is I've, I've never had any kind of paternity leave.

00:21:35.740 And, uh, and yet I'm still very well bonded with all my kids.

00:21:38.880 I mean, you can still work and do your job and also bond with your kids.

00:21:42.980 And I don't want to hear anything about how this is, oh, this is capitalism prioritizing, you know, income and, and over family.

00:21:49.900 What do you think?

00:21:52.160 Pride, pre-industrial times and non-capitalist societies.

00:21:59.040 You think fathers would, would a baby was born.

00:22:01.860 They were just doing nothing for two months and sitting at home.

00:22:04.620 No, there are still jobs that need to be done.

00:22:07.240 And what makes us all the more absurd in Buttigieg's case is that, yeah, the father does have a really important role early in the child's life.

00:22:18.480 But the most important role, and if you are staying home for a week or two months as the dad, the main thing that you, that you, that you got to be doing, if you have other kids, you're, you're, you're, you're going to be doing the lion's share of, that's like the main, when we have more kids.

00:22:31.920 And, you know, with our most recent child, we had three other kids.

00:22:36.260 And so my wife was taking care of the baby mostly and I was taking care of the older kids.

00:22:40.740 But if you don't have any other kids, then your main role as the dad, once the baby is born, is you're taking care of your wife.

00:22:48.660 You're taking care of the mom.

00:22:50.980 She's the one who's taking care of the baby most of the time. 0.99

00:22:53.420 You're taking care of her as she physically recovers from the, from the birth.

00:22:58.500 But Pete Buttigieg doesn't have a mom to take care of.

00:23:01.280 There's no one who's physically recovering from any kind of birth.

00:23:04.400 So I'm not sure exactly what he's even doing for those two months.

00:23:09.760 Nothing.

00:23:10.080 He's just sitting around having a nice vacation.

00:23:12.220 Okay.

00:23:14.040 Um, let's see, what else do we got here?

00:23:17.280 I thought this was, this was a interesting given the timing of it.

00:23:23.280 So I'm going to read from the Daily Mail.

00:23:25.060 It says the chairman of Nike's successful Jordan brand has revealed that he murdered an innocent 18 year old boy in 1965 while he was a gang member.

00:23:36.040 Larry Miller, 72, announced Wednesday in a Sports Illustrated interview.

00:23:39.040 That he served time in prison after fatally shooting Edward White when he was a 16 year old member of Philly's Cedar Avenue gang.

00:23:46.500 Miller says he took to the streets drunkenly and in search of revenge after one of his friends and fellow gang members was fatally stabbed by a member of the rival 53rd and Pine gang.

00:23:55.600 Um, 53rd and Pine.

00:23:59.200 That's a gang.

00:23:59.620 It sounds like a boutique clothing shop.

00:24:01.460 Uh, the business tycoon didn't know White, didn't know the victim, but wanted to avenge the murder of a fellow gang member and says he ended up shooting and killing the first person that he saw.

00:24:11.080 So he just went, he did, he, this, this wasn't even a, really a revenge killing.

00:24:16.120 He found some random person and simply killed him.

00:24:19.080 Um, White did nothing to provoke him and there's no suggestion he was a member of any other gang.

00:24:23.500 He died on the spot after being shot with a 38 Miller and, uh, Miller had gotten from his, uh, from his girlfriend.

00:24:28.940 Um, and why is Miller telling us this story now?

00:24:35.300 Apparently he had kind of kept, kept this to himself as he was climbing up the corporate ladder and he's a very successful person now running the Jordan brand.

00:24:42.560 Uh, and, uh, he's, he is now revealing all of this because it's in a book that he's, that he's selling.

00:24:47.720 And so he's doing the book tour and talking about this dramatic story wherein he commits first degree murder of an innocent person.

00:24:54.260 And that's in the book and everything.

00:24:55.900 Now, what makes this interesting is that, you know, he's, of course, no one's calling for him to be fired or anything like that.

00:25:04.940 I mean, he's, he has it in a book.

00:25:06.300 He's, he's, he's promoting, he's promoting his book based on this story of murdering somebody.

00:25:11.660 And, uh, you know, most of the media headlines are talking about how brave it is that he's coming out about this.

00:25:16.540 And it's a story about redemption and forgiveness and all those kinds of things.

00:25:21.900 And that's all, that's all fine.

00:25:23.280 I mean, I would say you're, you're a 72 year old man.

00:25:27.140 You committed this horrible crime decades and decades ago.

00:25:30.320 You went to prison and served your time.

00:25:34.100 Um, I'm, I'm, I think a story of, and he has a lot of remorse about it.

00:25:39.840 He, he talks about how it has, the guilt has plagued him and everything.

00:25:43.780 Um, you know, I, I didn't read anything in the story about whether he has tracked down the family of his victim and tried to help them in some way.

00:25:53.360 Hopefully he's done that.

00:25:56.280 So a story about, about redemption and forgiveness.

00:25:58.680 I'm all about that.

00:25:59.460 I think that's great.

00:26:01.360 Somebody commits a horrible crime, goes to prison, serves out their time, leaves, is able to still live, uh, a, a productive life after the fact.

00:26:12.500 I think that's great too, but it's just interesting that we can accept this kind of redemption and we can have forgiveness for something like this in our society.

00:26:27.400 And yet, if you said vulgar words in a private email 10 years ago, that is unforgivable.

00:26:38.000 That's the interesting thing to me.

00:26:39.680 And you could easily, uh, home in on the, on the racial aspect of this.

00:26:46.320 Larry Miller is a black man.

00:26:48.140 Uh, John Gruden's a white guy that makes John Gruden a lot less sympathetic in the eyes of the media and much of the culture.

00:26:53.820 And there is that, but that's not all what this, that's, that's not this whole, the whole story here.

00:26:59.600 It's also just that these days we really do see murder as less of a crime, less of a moral failing than using politically incorrect language.

00:27:16.040 You know, if, if, if Larry Miller had revealed his own emails, if rather than having killed someone when he was a teenager, if he had revealed his own, or I guess back then it would have been letters that he'd written.

00:27:33.700 You know, where he used like the F slur for gay people or something like that, if that's what he was revealing, something tells me that people would be much less accepting of his redemption arc in that case, because our priorities are so wildly out of whack.

00:27:51.860 All right, next, this is from, uh, the daily wire as, uh, the daily wire and, and, uh, Luke Rosiak here, investigative journalists continue to follow this story in Loudoun County.

00:28:03.700 And it's, it's good that we're following the story of Loudoun County, because as we talked about at the top of the show, the media, the corporate media has no interest whatsoever in this, um, in this story.

00:28:11.940 So here's the latest and it keeps getting worse.

00:28:14.740 Um, it says Loudoun County public schools did not record multiple known incidents of alleged sexual assault in schools dating back several years, despite a law that requires statistics about school safety incidents to be reported to the public and which includes provisions holding school superintendents personally liable for violations.

00:28:33.700 After the daily wire raised the discrepancy with the Virginia department of education, the spokesman, Charles Pyle said that, uh, the VDOE is reviewing the discipline, crime and violence data submissions of Loudoun County public schools.

00:28:45.880 And is in communication with LCPS to determine whether the division's reporting is accurate and whether the division is in compliance with state and federal law.

00:28:52.860 Um, the same law could have implications for a Loudoun superintendent or principal in the wake of a May 28th alleged sexual assault in a bathroom, which we've talked about.

00:29:01.040 So now we have multiple alleged sexual assaults, um, which, which were not recorded or reported and that shouldn't surprise you because as we discussed on the show yesterday, this is an epidemic in the public school system while you're fighting in Loudoun County.

00:29:20.460 I mean, I mean, you could dig in to hundreds of different school districts across the country and you're going to find similar things, sexual assaults in the school system, student on student teacher on student that are not recorded, not reported teachers are moved around all the rest of it.

00:29:44.100 This is happening. This is happening. This is, this is a, it's a big story in Loudoun County, but this is a classic tip of the iceberg type of thing. Um, it goes much deeper than that.

00:30:00.120 It's, it's, it's, it's like in the Catholic church. We started hearing reports out of Boston and, uh, what was happening up in Boston with, with pedophile priests getting moved around.

00:30:11.780 And then you start digging deeper into it and you find out that, okay, this is happening all, all across the country.

00:30:20.120 Because that's the way it always works. You know, it's the, the, these kinds of problems are when you, when they're in a system like this, they're never going to be contained to one little piece, one little part of the system.

00:30:32.960 It's always going to be system-wide. Um, and it's, it's, it's, it's a, it's a good thing that Daily Wire is here to not to toot our own, our own horn, but this is just not a story that the media is going to chase down.

00:30:49.960 Um, even taking the trans bathroom angle out of it, because all of these other thousands and thousands, tens of thousands of cases of sexual assault that have happened in our schools over the last several years, most of them have nothing to do with bathrooms, have nothing to do with any of that.

00:31:08.520 Um, and still the media doesn't want to talk about it, uh, abuse in the Catholic church.

00:31:17.440 Sure. That's fantastic. As far as they're concerned, because they hate Catholicism. They hate the Catholic church. They, they hate what it represents.

00:31:25.840 And so if they can find this kind of evil and moral hypocrisy, uh, and, and these predators in the Catholic church, then for them, that, uh, that, that fits perfectly into the narrative.

00:31:40.080 And they will chase those, those kinds of stories down fearlessly because what is there to fear?

00:31:48.100 In the public school, it's an entirely different deal.

00:31:50.420 All right. This is from the website GameSpot. It says actor Sir Lenny Henry has shared some new insight on Amazon's, the Lord of the Rings TV show, which will feature a diverse multicultural cast and a very strong female presence.

00:32:06.340 Speaking of the BBC, Henry said that he plays a Harfoot, which is a type of hobbit described by Tolkien in his writing as having darker skin.

00:32:13.320 Uh, he said, quote, I'm a Harfoot because J.R.R. Tolkien, who was from Birmingham, suddenly there were black hobbits. I'm a black hobbit. It's brilliant. 1.00

00:32:23.820 Um, and then he continues and said, in this new series, there are black and Asian and brown, um, hobbits.

00:32:35.000 It's a whole brand new set of adventures that, that seed some of the origins of different characters.

00:32:39.500 Then he also talks about how there's, he says there's a very strong female presence in this.

00:32:44.280 Uh, there are going to be female heroes in this and they're going to be little people as usual. 1.00

00:32:48.440 Okay. Well, first of all, there were, there were female heroes in the original Lord of the Rings trilogy.

00:32:53.500 If I remember correctly, uh, I'm, I'm not, not an expert on Tolkien's mythology, but I do remember that at least.

00:33:01.260 And again, as not an expert on Tolkien mythology, I'm, I'm pretty sure if I remember the movies and the books, uh, correctly, that the hobbit hobbits are from, you know, a small region of middle earth.

00:33:17.160 So the idea that you would have this, this wide array of racial diversity that you have Asian hobbits in middle earth, where there is, as far as I am aware, no Asia in, in, in the, in the context of that mythology, that doesn't actually make a lot of sense.

00:33:35.220 I mean, yeah, you might have darker and lighter skin tones, just like you have anywhere else, but I'm not sure how you, how you get racial diversity from this small little region of middle earth.

00:33:49.580 And, and I know you could easily say, well, who cares? It's all fiction. It's all, it's all fantasy. You could do what you want. And I get that.

00:33:56.580 But even so it doesn't make sense within Tolkien's mythology. It doesn't actually make sense within the story. And so why are they doing it? If all they cared about was, was staying true to the story and telling the story, then you wouldn't have this.

00:34:13.860 They're doing this because they, there, there are things that they care more about. You know, there are things they prioritize over the story itself. And one of those things is checking the boxes.

00:34:26.960 So the first priority, when they set out to tell this tale about middle earth and about this mythological tale, their first priority is not let's tell a great story. Let's stay true to Tolkien's mythology. That's, that's not it.

00:34:40.560 The first priority is, you know, we've got all these boxes of representation. Let's check them all off.

00:34:46.800 We've got to have X number of female characters. We've got to have X number of black characters, Asian characters. 0.98

00:34:53.200 Of course, we've got to, you know, we've got to figure out a way to ram some, some gay characters in here. 0.98

00:34:57.580 Can we get a transgender hobbit? I'm sure we can. 1.00

00:35:02.180 That becomes the first priority and then everything else is secondary.

00:35:05.600 And, uh, I, I simply have no tolerance for it.

00:35:10.560 So this, this, this show for me is checked off the list.

00:35:16.640 I was actually kind of looking forward to it, but the moment, the moment I noticed the PC box checking,

00:35:24.520 the moment they do it, I have no tolerance for it anymore.

00:35:29.700 I don't want to see it, not going to waste my time with it.

00:35:35.980 It's, it's this complete fourth wall breaking moment where they're taking us out of the story they're telling.

00:35:44.440 They're taking us out of the fantasy and the mythology.

00:35:46.240 They're taking us away from middle earth and they're putting us right here in, in the year 2021 in this confused,

00:35:52.920 politically correct culture of ours, you know,

00:35:56.800 and they're making sure that everything being shown in this fantasy story aligns with the, you know,

00:36:02.700 values and needs of, uh, of, of, of American culture in the year 2021.

00:36:07.220 It just, it, it annihilates the fourth wall, takes you out of the story.

00:36:11.040 And it's what, what's the point anymore?

00:36:13.800 All right.

00:36:15.780 Let's go next to this.

00:36:17.280 Joe Biden had a big announcement about vaccines for children that I suppose as parents,

00:36:22.100 we're supposed to be excited about.

00:36:23.740 You can tell me if, uh, if, if that's how you feel about it.

00:36:26.880 Uh, here it is.

00:36:27.640 Now I know parents, uh, out there are anxiously waiting for a vaccine for children ages five to 11.

00:36:35.640 The good news is the FDA and outside experts from the CDC are set to make its determination

00:36:41.940 as to whether the vaccine will be authorized for that age range in the next few weeks.

00:36:48.340 If authorized, we are ready.

00:36:50.960 We have purchased enough vaccines for all children between the ages of five and 11

00:36:56.780 in the United States.

00:36:58.920 And we'll be, it'll be convenient for parents to get their children vaccinated at trusted

00:37:03.240 locations and families will be able to sleep easier at night knowing their kids are protected

00:37:08.860 as well.

00:37:09.780 Um, I mean, I've been sleeping fine at night, except when the kid is in bed with us cause

00:37:15.980 he had a nightmare and is kicking me in the face all night.

00:37:19.280 Um, but as far as COVID goes, I've been sleeping perfectly fine.

00:37:23.460 You know, as a parent, if you've been losing any sleep,

00:37:25.940 worried about your kids and COVID, then that's a sign of your, of your own extreme paranoia.

00:37:35.080 Um, he says the good news is that the FDA is approving the vaccine for kids.

00:37:41.880 No, the good news is that your kids have this thing called, um, an immune system.

00:37:48.960 And as it happens, their immune system, this is not the case for people in older age groups

00:37:54.800 necessarily, but for them, their immune system provides them even better protection than the

00:38:00.940 vaccine does for older age groups.

00:38:02.400 That's the good news.

00:38:05.100 And in fact, uh, Joe Rogan had Dr. Gupta from CNN on his show a couple, a couple of days ago.

00:38:14.200 And he, he was trying to make this point about the vaccines and kids and, and this, and this kind

00:38:20.740 of natural immunity.

00:38:21.980 The kids have natural immunity in the sense of their, their natural immune system provides

00:38:25.760 them such profound protection.

00:38:27.220 He was trying to make this point to Gupta and there, there's this disconnect that you can see.

00:38:32.980 Let's, let's watch it.

00:38:33.740 Don't you think that even with a breakthrough infection untreated, you're probably more

00:38:40.060 vulnerable than the average child who is not vaccinated, who gets COVID, uh, like people 0.99

00:38:45.880 have died who are double vaccinated.

00:38:48.480 In fact, there was a guy who just won an Emmy.

00:38:50.140 Who's a, who's a, the odds of that happening to a healthy child are very, very low, very low,

00:38:56.140 but that guy is probably your age.

00:38:58.120 How old are you?

00:38:58.940 I'm 51.

00:38:59.800 Yeah.

00:39:00.080 He's about your age.

00:39:01.000 Theoretically, you would be more vulnerable than a young child would be.

00:39:05.060 You vaccinated would be more vulnerable of a breakthrough infection than a young child

00:39:09.640 would be statistically speaking.

00:39:11.460 Right.

00:39:12.080 But you're not worried about rare, but you're not worried about catching it.

00:39:16.260 You're not worried about catching it because you've been vaccinated and you think it imparts

00:39:20.200 a certain amount of protection.

00:39:21.220 What I'm saying to you is I think that not worry is the same feeling that a lot of people

00:39:26.320 have about their children.

00:39:27.200 They're not worried about their healthy children catching it for the same reason you're not

00:39:31.720 worried about catching it being vaccinated that if treated correctly, they think that

00:39:36.700 the child probably has a better chance even than you do because you're 51 years old.

00:39:43.100 I think is that I mean, they're both that seems reasonable, right?

00:39:47.520 Well, I think it's I don't I know the story about this.

00:39:51.460 Fifty three year old I'm saying with your attitude that you're not worried about catching

00:39:55.080 it because you've been vaccinated and you're a healthy guy.

00:39:58.820 That is the exact same feeling that people have about vaccinating their children.

00:40:03.600 If they have healthy children and they know that statistically speaking, there's so few

00:40:08.680 children that have died from COVID.

00:40:10.220 Well, yeah, there are it's like I think five hundred or so out of millions and millions

00:40:15.280 and millions of kids that probably have been exposed.

00:40:17.680 Yeah.

00:40:17.960 And but, you know, it's again, part of it is is not defining this in terms of life and

00:40:22.980 death.

00:40:24.140 This is it's never going to get through.

00:40:27.600 It can't get through.

00:40:30.640 Well, this this is not really a risk for kids.

00:40:34.400 Why are we acting like it's a risk?

00:40:36.180 You know, what's what's what's the reason for that?

00:40:43.820 This is just it's a question that's never going to get through.

00:40:48.400 And so you see, he keeps he keeps he keeps trying to bring it back to that.

00:40:52.120 But it is it's like it's like talking to a tree or something.

00:40:56.220 People have committed to this idea.

00:41:03.860 That everybody, you know, everybody has to treat COVID exactly the same.

00:41:10.740 We are all I guess this is the principles of equity being applied to to COVID.

00:41:18.340 And to science.

00:41:21.760 We are all equally as susceptible to COVID.

00:41:26.220 Even if we're not, we're going to pretend that we are, including our kids.

00:41:30.920 All right.

00:41:31.460 One other thing I have to show you.

00:41:33.840 I mean, I don't have to show you this, but I'm going to.

00:41:36.740 And God forgive me.

00:41:38.280 I beg your forgiveness.

00:41:41.400 But no, not this one.

00:41:43.020 We're going to get to that in a second.

00:41:44.780 Yeah, there we go.

00:41:46.080 So this this is this is the thing.

00:41:47.280 In fact, let's put up.

00:41:48.360 No, we won't show the video of her dancing, but Lizzo.

00:41:50.860 Let's just show the pictures.

00:41:51.840 OK, there we go.

00:41:53.420 So Lizzo, the singer Lizzo showed up to Cardi B's birthday party a few days ago.

00:42:00.000 And I only know about this, by the way, because this was all over like Twitter for days.

00:42:06.060 We kept kept pushing these headlines about Lizzo at Cardi B's birthday party in a totally see through dress.

00:42:12.640 So Lizzo went to Lizzo, who is.

00:42:15.360 You know, I should remind you, she's morbidly obese. 1.00

00:42:18.980 And if you're looking at the picture, I don't need to remind you of that.

00:42:21.180 It's right there in your face.

00:42:22.240 You can quite clearly see it.

00:42:23.400 But a morbidly obese pop singer.

00:42:25.800 She goes to Cardi B's birthday party in a see-through dress and with nothing on underneath.

00:42:33.860 OK, Twitter really wanted us to see this.

00:42:36.460 And so for days and days, they were pushing this headline out.

00:42:38.620 And, of course, the media talking about how beautiful and amazing this is and what a beautiful dress it is.

00:42:46.600 And if you look at some of the reaction on social media,

00:42:50.700 well, a lot of seemingly normal people insisting that, oh, she's gorgeous.

00:42:54.320 This is beautiful.

00:42:56.660 And nobody actually thinks that, right?

00:42:59.220 But we've been convinced to deny so many basic truths that we know deep down to be true.

00:43:08.400 But we have been scolded and yelled at so much that we have been, many of us, convinced to suppress those truths that we recognize.

00:43:20.580 And that includes basic truths about biological science and everything else.

00:43:24.540 There's also a truth to beauty.

00:43:26.080 I mean, beauty is not, despite what you're told, in the eye of the beholder.

00:43:31.640 There's an objective quality to beauty.

00:43:35.620 And so you look at, I don't know, the sun setting over the ocean.

00:43:42.260 That's beautiful.

00:43:43.560 And if anybody were to be standing on that beach with you and looking at that sky and the sun setting over the ocean,

00:43:51.640 and they were to say, that's disgusting. 0.98

00:43:53.120 Ew, ugly. 0.91

00:43:54.640 No, this is not a matter of them having a different opinion that's totally valid.

00:43:58.480 They're wrong. 1.00

00:43:59.260 I mean, they're probably mentally ill. 0.98

00:44:00.580 That would be a sign that someone is mentally ill if they were somehow disgusted by this, what is an objectively beautiful sight. 0.99

00:44:09.160 And it goes the other way, too. 0.66

00:44:11.660 I mean, a morbidly obese woman walking around a see-through dress, that is not a beautiful sight. 0.99

00:44:17.580 It simply is not.

00:44:18.520 And if you're saying that it is, you're probably lying and you know that you're lying.

00:44:24.940 Or you're lying and you don't know it.

00:44:27.960 Because society has told you that you're not allowed to recognize.

00:44:31.100 Okay, take the pictures down.

00:44:32.060 Stop showing them.

00:44:33.500 Let's take the pictures off.

00:44:34.460 I think we've seen enough.

00:44:35.040 Society has told you that you're not allowed to recognize the objective quality to physical beauty because there is an objective quality there.

00:44:43.980 You know, we're told that through different cultures and different societies throughout history have had different standards of beauty.

00:44:53.160 And yeah, that's basically true.

00:44:54.460 But if you were to look at who would be considered, I mean, prior to when we all lost our minds, who would have been considered, what woman would have been considered a beautiful woman in our culture?

00:45:06.980 That woman would have been considered beautiful in any culture throughout history. 0.85

00:45:11.620 Some slight differences, but there's really no culture except ours that would ever insist that morbid obesity is beautiful.

00:45:21.060 And it can't be beautiful because it's suicidal.

00:45:24.820 It's destructive.

00:45:27.080 You're watching someone kill themselves slowly.

00:45:29.660 That can't be beautiful.

00:45:31.360 It's not beautiful to watch someone destroy themselves.

00:45:36.920 And by the way, a see-through dress on anyone is...

00:45:41.100 Why are you putting pictures up again?

00:45:43.160 We don't...

00:45:43.460 No, please.

00:45:45.600 I'm trying to get through this segment right now.

00:45:47.580 Please.

00:45:51.060 What was I even saying?

00:45:53.420 The... 0.82

00:45:53.980 A see-through dress on anyone is trashy and gross on anybody.

00:45:57.480 I mean, that's a trashy and embarrassing thing to do. 0.90

00:46:00.800 It's also something you dress like that because you hate yourself.

00:46:04.940 That is a self-loathing, self-hating thing to do.

00:46:08.880 Because you don't see the dignity...

00:46:11.400 You don't see your own dignity.

00:46:12.740 And so the other thing that we're told when we see a dress like that is not only is it beautiful, which it isn't, clearly, but we're also told that this is, you know, if you love yourself and you're confident about yourself, this is how you dress.

00:46:26.160 This is a sign of her confidence.

00:46:27.440 Well, we know that's not the case.

00:46:30.960 In fact, we played the video a few weeks ago where Lizzo was crying on Instagram Live because some of the mean comments people have made about her.

00:46:38.460 That's an honest moment.

00:46:39.960 I mean, this is someone who very much has a lot of self-doubt.

00:46:42.560 And you know that not just from crying on Instagram Live, but because that's what you do.

00:46:50.700 That is overcompensation to an extreme degree.

00:46:54.500 If you really love yourself, then you would respect your own dignity.

00:46:59.260 And going out like that is undignified.

00:47:07.240 All right, we got to just keep moving on. 0.99

00:47:08.840 I think this is a message from the control room to just move to the next topic because they keep flashing Lizzo's naked butt at me. 0.93

00:47:15.740 So we're going to we're going to move now to reading the comments. 0.92

00:47:18.760 Who's rocking polka dot and flannel shirts without shame?

00:47:24.020 Do you know their name?

00:47:27.640 They're the sweet baby gang.

00:47:31.960 OK, good.

00:47:34.940 Let's see.

00:47:35.560 First comment says, Matt, what is your opinion on the actor and comedian Matt Walsh?

00:47:38.840 Whenever I Google your name, he comes up first.

00:47:42.460 You know, I have no problem with him.

00:47:44.320 I think that probably he, you know, I got to say, I think he's the victim in this, in our shared name.

00:47:54.820 Yeah, he's a Hollywood actor.

00:47:56.520 I assume he's the pretty safe assumption that he's left wing.

00:48:00.100 I don't mind.

00:48:03.080 Look, I embrace all Matt Walsh's.

00:48:05.020 I think that I wish that there was a brotherhood that we all share in our name.

00:48:08.520 But I just don't know if that feeling is returned.

00:48:11.160 I suspect that it's not a mutual feeling.

00:48:16.440 Shiffy Weinberg says, why don't all parents of Loudoun County stop sending their children to school for two weeks or even longer?

00:48:23.100 That might get the message across.

00:48:26.640 Yeah, I think that.

00:48:29.280 That's an interesting idea.

00:48:32.000 I think that's that's some sort of.

00:48:35.020 I mean, going going to the school board meetings and speaking out is an important thing to do.

00:48:39.860 But Loudoun County is making that as difficult as possible.

00:48:42.260 And again, they only give you the 60 seconds, which is absurd.

00:48:44.580 So, yeah, if I was still a resident of Loudoun County, then then which maybe I will become a resident again in the future.

00:48:54.260 Who knows?

00:48:55.500 I would be looking at at other methods of sending the message across on top of going to school board meetings.

00:49:04.180 Slightly offended says, why doesn't the vice resident give up any land or house that she owns? 1.00

00:49:10.060 She's so sad and hurt by what those in her family have done.

00:49:13.920 Then take action.

00:49:16.640 Well, right.

00:49:17.280 If you if you believe that you're on stolen land.

00:49:20.060 See, I have there's no moral quandary for me.

00:49:22.380 This idea that we are on stolen land.

00:49:24.180 We're all thieves.

00:49:24.900 I don't I don't buy that.

00:49:26.320 I don't accept it.

00:49:26.980 I don't believe that.

00:49:27.800 I don't think that.

00:49:29.620 And so I'm going to go about living my life.

00:49:31.520 But if you actually believe that you are on stolen land and that you continue to live on it, well, that morally that makes you a thief.

00:49:41.480 You know, I don't have the moral guilt of a thief because I simply don't accept the present the premise at all.

00:49:46.400 But if you really believe that premise, if you actually believe that your land is stolen, that you have no right to be on it, and yet you remain there.

00:49:55.500 Then you have that moral.

00:49:57.180 That's that's the irony.

00:49:58.220 The moral guilt that you're trying to hoist on everybody else actually lays at your own feet. 1.00

00:50:02.800 Unless you don't believe it, which makes you a hypocrite. 0.99

00:50:06.340 And then you have that moral guilt. 0.99

00:50:07.640 So pick your poison.

00:50:10.340 David says, I wish you were my daddy and you could put me back to sleep after a bad dream.

00:50:14.720 David.

00:50:17.280 No, don't.

00:50:19.160 You're taking liberties with the sweet daddy thing that that are not acceptable and you are banned from the show.

00:50:24.500 How dare you, sir?

00:50:28.020 Major Tom Fisher says, was thinking about the question about Daily Wire's future movies.

00:50:32.400 And now I really want to see DW buy Big Idea back from DreamWorks and finally bring back VeggieTales, bringing it back to its home in Tennessee, too.

00:50:41.160 I can tell you right now, if Daily Wire buys VeggieTales, I quit.

00:50:43.920 I want no part of that.

00:50:48.360 And let's see what else we got.

00:50:52.380 Luke says, are you going to do a review of the new Adele song?

00:50:55.820 No, because I only review songs that are terrible.

00:50:58.320 That's the rule.

00:50:59.660 And I did hear that Adele has a new song out, apparently.

00:51:02.680 And I did hear it.

00:51:03.920 And it wasn't bad.

00:51:06.320 She can actually sing.

00:51:07.500 She's actually singing a song.

00:51:09.280 And there's music in the background.

00:51:11.720 And so it's a song.

00:51:13.960 And my standards are pretty low these days for pop music.

00:51:18.400 BH says, who the hell is Matt Walsh?

00:51:20.120 Have you guys ever watched the Jordan Harbinger show? 0.98

00:51:22.340 Even Matt knows deep down his show sucks compared to the Jordan Harbinger show. 0.60

00:51:25.260 Jordan Harbinger is the real leader of the Sweet Baby Gang. 0.92

00:51:28.860 Well, I can't deny that, BH.

00:51:30.240 I think you're exactly right.

00:51:32.340 What are you all doing here when you should be listening to the Jordan Harbinger show?

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00:52:48.200 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:52:53.840 Today we cancel John Lewis, not the late congressman, but the UK company, which provides home insurance, among other things.

00:53:02.840 The company has been making some headlines, mostly positive headlines over an inclusive and progressive new advertisement,

00:53:10.000 which features, as so many ads do these days, a young boy cross-dressing.

00:53:15.180 Now the ad title, we can just play the ad here while I'm talking so you can see.

00:53:18.560 The ad is titled Let Life Happen and it opens with the boy in what appears to be his sister's room,

00:53:25.740 kind of dolled up in girl clothes with makeup smeared all over his face.

00:53:30.620 He's got jewelry on and he's got high heels and the room is completely trashed and torn apart.

00:53:37.880 And then, and there he is there.

00:53:40.040 And then the boy begins dancing to the house and at one point he's smearing paint on the walls,

00:53:45.060 kicking over lamps, tearing books off the shelves.

00:53:48.800 He knocks over his sister's paints and he spills them on the carpet.

00:53:53.780 Towards the end, he throws glitter all over the living room.

00:53:56.620 He starts dancing on top of the table and then you see at one point his mother is looking on with a blank expression

00:54:03.120 and then the ad ends with the words Let Life Happen, Home Insurance.

00:54:10.240 So that's the ad.

00:54:11.700 Now, before we even get to the issue of the boy in the dress,

00:54:16.820 I think there are a number of basic concept problems with this ad.

00:54:19.700 The first is that no insurance company on earth, I can tell you this right now,

00:54:25.540 including John Lewis, I'm quite sure,

00:54:28.500 will cover damage to your home, which has been caused intentionally by your bratty child

00:54:33.360 while you sat there and watched.

00:54:36.200 Anyone who's ever dealt with home insurance companies knows that home insurance in general

00:54:40.200 is great until you actually have to use it.

00:54:43.280 The insurance companies would prefer that you just pay them each month

00:54:45.900 and never actually use the product you've been paying for.

00:54:48.160 If you do dare to file a claim, they're almost offended when you call them up and say,

00:54:53.060 I've got to file a claim.

00:54:53.760 What do you mean you've got to file a claim?

00:54:56.260 They'll do everything in their power to ensure that your claim isn't covered by the policy you paid for.

00:55:01.280 There's almost always some fine print technicality.

00:55:03.500 Like you call and say that you have a burst pipe and they'll say,

00:55:06.140 well, when did the pipe burst?

00:55:08.340 You'll say it happened on Tuesday morning and they'll say,

00:55:10.320 oh, well, oh, unfortunately, if the pipe burst on Tuesday between 6.15 a.m. and 8.17 a.m.,

00:55:15.760 we can't cover it.

00:55:16.500 That wasn't your policy.

00:55:17.640 It's, you know, unfortunately, we just can't.

00:55:19.840 So my point is that they definitely aren't covering the damage done

00:55:23.920 by your out-of-control son during his impromptu drag performance.

00:55:28.220 Even if they say they will, they won't.

00:55:30.460 But maybe that's neither here nor there.

00:55:31.920 The real point is that the marketing agency that made this ad went out and hired a young boy,

00:55:36.760 dressed him up in makeup and heels, and told him to dance around the house while they film him.

00:55:41.840 Why? 1.00

00:55:43.320 Well, because the people behind this ad are a bunch of creepy, disgusting freaks. 1.00

00:55:47.140 And like all the other creepy, disgusting freaks who run our culture, 1.00

00:55:49.600 they really want your child to be gender fluid. 0.99

00:55:52.020 They especially want this for young boys.

00:55:54.560 I mean, when you see this kind of thing in mainstream advertisements for normal,

00:55:57.900 everyday products like home insurance, then you see all the books in the children's section

00:56:01.920 of Barnes & Noble that feature boys dressing like girls,

00:56:03.980 and you see the drag queen story hours and all the rest of it.

00:56:06.440 It becomes quite clear that the promotion of gender ideology has become

00:56:09.020 the priority number one for our cultural overlords.

00:56:13.220 It's the most important thing to them.

00:56:15.500 They desperately want your kids to buy in, especially your sons.

00:56:19.100 So it's interesting to note that the majority of kids who fall into the trap

00:56:26.080 and start identifying as gender fluid or trans are girls.

00:56:30.340 This kind of thing is the most common among adolescent girls these days.

00:56:33.940 And yet it would seem that most of the effort is put into inducting boys into the cult.

00:56:39.760 Why is that?

00:56:40.620 Well, I think girls reach a certain age right around puberty 0.99

00:56:43.500 when they're especially susceptible to the gender cult. 0.59

00:56:50.380 You know, they go through a period of feeling uncomfortable in their own bodies,

00:56:53.820 not at home in their bodies.

00:56:55.880 Boys may have something like that as well, but it's not nearly as pronounced.

00:56:59.760 The gender cult gives girls a framework for understanding these natural and fleeting feelings. 0.89

00:57:04.840 The cultists seize on this normal phase of girlhood and use it as a wedge

00:57:08.760 to pry girls away from their true and natural identities.

00:57:11.980 With boys, it would seem the job is harder.

00:57:15.240 Boys have their own bewildering experiences in puberty, but it's not the same.

00:57:19.740 And the feelings of physical alienation within your own body are, again,

00:57:23.920 not nearly as powerful in boys as they are in girls,

00:57:26.520 which means that if the gender cultists want to get to boys, 0.52

00:57:29.960 they need to start younger and they need to be more aggressive.

00:57:33.620 They need to try harder.

00:57:35.520 And that's why it's almost always boys being targeted by these kinds of things,

00:57:38.800 even as girls make up the majority of the kids who ultimately fall victim to it.

00:57:43.100 But the funny thing about this ad is that it actually makes the opposite point from the one that it's trying to make.

00:57:50.260 Because the boy in the ad is immature, out of control, childish, destructive.

00:57:56.920 When left to his own devices, when his mother just sits there and lets him do what he wants,

00:58:02.640 offering no guidance or correction at all, he makes himself and the home into a disaster zone.

00:58:09.200 The boy can't be given that kind of free reign.

00:58:12.360 He needs instruction.

00:58:13.340 He needs careful parental oversight.

00:58:15.020 That's not what the ad is trying to demonstrate, but that's what it did demonstrate.

00:58:21.120 And that's also why you can't let kids choose their own gender. 1.00

00:58:24.200 Because they lack the maturity and discernment and long-term decision-making ability to determine that for themselves.

00:58:30.580 Of course, nobody can determine it for themselves because biology determines it,

00:58:33.320 but children especially can't be given that kind of power.

00:58:36.040 And so, the ad would seem to illustrate that for us quite profoundly and also quite unintentionally.

00:58:47.380 When you as a parent just sit there drinking your coffee, letting your kid live their life without giving any guidance,

00:58:57.260 you know, letting them alone in the dark to fumble their way through without grabbing the flashlight yourself

00:59:03.480 and saying, no, child, this is the way to go.

00:59:07.560 When you do that, this is what you end up with.

00:59:10.700 You end up with a boy wearing drag, tearing your house apart. 1.00

00:59:17.280 So, for that reason, although they ultimately made the correct point unintentionally,

00:59:24.760 we still have to say that John Lewis home insurance, and really maybe all home insurance in the end, is canceled.

00:59:32.200 And that will do it for us today.

00:59:34.360 Thanks for watching.

00:59:35.360 Thanks for listening.

00:59:36.300 Have a great day.

00:59:37.040 Godspeed.

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The Matt Walsh Show - October 15, 2021

Ep. 819 - Secretary Buttigieg Disappears For Two Months And Nobody Notices

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