Ep. 824 -Â A Generation Descends Into Mass Psychosis
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1 hour and 2 minutes
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168.3936
Summary
Pro-choicers are relentless in all of their talking points, but they're also wrong. An entire generation of kids appear to be suffering from a kind of mass psychosis. This seems like a problem that deserves more attention than it's getting. Also, megalomaniac Joe Biden brags that he's restored the soul of our nation. And Merrick Garland is asked why he sent the FBI after parents at school board meetings, and his reason is less than sufficient. And how many undercover feds were at the January 6th riot? Were they the ones who encouraged the crowd to enter the Capitol? The evidence is piling up.
Transcript
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An entire generation of kids appear to be suffering from a kind of mass psychosis.
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This seems like a problem that deserves more attention than it's getting.
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Also, megalomaniac Joe Biden brags that he's restored the soul of our nation.
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And Merrick Garland is asked why he sent the FBI after parents at school board meetings,
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And how many undercover feds were at the January 6th riot?
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Were they the ones who encouraged the crowd to enter the Capitol?
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We'll discuss all of that and more today on The Matt Wall Show.
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You know, just because people are loud and obnoxious, it doesn't mean that they're right.
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In fact, oftentimes it works the other way around.
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And that's certainly the case for quote-unquote pro-choicers who are very loud,
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very relentless in all of their talking points, but they're also very wrong.
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But sometimes because there are so many talking points and so many arguments they throw at you,
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it can be hard to parse through all of it and sift through it and figure out what to say and when to say it.
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And that's one of the reasons why I wrote the foreword to the new book from 40 Days for Life,
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What to Say When, the complete new guide to discussing abortion.
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Since its release, it's already been a number one Amazon new release and a number two Amazon bestseller.
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And it's on its second printing because people are finding that this book is very helpful to them.
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It tells you what to say, what not to say, and the proven arguments that have worked for everybody,
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people on the fence, abortion supporters, even Planned Parenthood workers.
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40 Days for Life is the largest grassroots pro-life organization in the world.
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They're an authority on this and you can trust them.
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And that's why you got to go to Amazon and get What to Say When,
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Or you can go directly to 40 Days for Life at 40daysforlife.com.
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There's been a lot of talk about pronouns this week.
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First, with the ACLU valiantly defending the Loudoun County school system's right
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to force teachers to use the preferred pronouns of students.
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And then with the State Department urging us all to join in celebrating International Pronouns Day.
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And as I said yesterday, it seems that it's finally becoming apparent to most people on the right
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that this pronoun issue is not the sideshow that many once thought it was.
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I mean, it is, for one thing, an attack on our fundamental human liberties.
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The problem with the pronoun policy in Loudoun County and with similar policies that are being adopted
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and will soon be adopted in other localities around the country,
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it's not simply that speech is being compelled, but specifically that false speech is being compelled.
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I mean, you can only have freedom, real freedom, in truth.
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Which is why any attack on real freedom is also an attack on truth.
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And I think, I hope, that that's now obvious to most people on the right.
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But I also hope that anyone who was slow on the uptake,
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you know, those who took a while to understand the real threat
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that all of this seemingly bizarre, infringed stuff poses to our society,
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I hope they won't make the same mistake with the clips that I'm going to play for you now.
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Because here we have two more contributions to society from TikTok.
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taking the preferred pronoun concept to seemingly new extremes.
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In this first one, we find out that some of these kids are actually identifying as inanimate objects.
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When I front, I find it very difficult to remember things that the body requires,
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such as how to move, how to blink, how to breathe, and how to speak.
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For the purpose of filming this video, I have Meredith co-conscious with me,
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However, this is the third take, the first two, I forgot to breathe and or speak.
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Now, Dahl here has not invented the Dahl pronoun concept.
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In fact, a handy resource is the website PronounE.xyz,
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which lists and explains all of the different alternative pronouns currently in existence.
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And there are a lot of them, pages and pages, hundreds and hundreds.
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From the very first page, you can see that if you go there, it's apparently popular now to identify as an emoji.
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Many of the pronouns aren't words at all, but pictures.
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Other pronouns include poison, poisons, poisons, and poison-self.
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And if you're wondering what a self-identifying demon looks like, well, you're in luck.
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Hi, my name's Liana. I use they demon pronouns.
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So, we're going to basically present three sentences.
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One of them is going to have one pronoun, the other one's going to have the other pronoun,
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and then the last one is going to have both pronouns interchanged.
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So, Liana uses they, them pronouns and demon pronouns.
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Liana is my partner, they are cute, and I am theirs.
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I love them very much, and I hope they love themselves too.
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Liana is my partner, Dean is cute, and I belong to Dean.
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I love demon very much, and I hope Dean loves demon-self too.
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Then, interchanging the two would be, Liana is my partner, they are cute, and I am Dean's.
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I love demon very much, and I hope they love demon-self too.
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This is what grammar, teaching language and grammar, that's what it's going to be pretty soon.
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And there is something very on the nose about this.
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In fact, in the Gospels, when Jesus encountered demon-possessed people,
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they would sometimes go by they, them pronouns,
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because there was more than one demon infesting the person,
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and so we may be able to draw some connections and analogies here.
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But I'm afraid that a lot of people on the sane side of the ideological spectrum
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might see this sort of thing and make the same mistake they made with gender ideology more broadly,
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assuming that it's kind of this weird and wacky phase,
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and it's not anything widespread or serious or worth our attention.
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And in saner times, you know, in a culture that hadn't already sunk below the surface
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After all, demon-self over there is really just a goth kid trying to be edgy, right?
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so they have this unfortunate vehicle to publicize and advertise these embarrassing phases.
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is that we now live in a society that validates, legitimizes,
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Now, when I was a kid, the adults would tell the goth kids
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or they're never going to be able to get a job or a girlfriend, right?
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That's what the adults used to say to kids going through these kinds of phases.
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Now the adults stand off on the sideline in cheerleader uniforms and pom-poms,
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sometimes literally cheering the kids on in their delusions.
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what would be something that makes them look back in a few years and cringe,
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The meaningless is transformed into the meaningful.
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What would be a phase instead becomes the kernel of a debilitating lifelong identity crisis.
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There's not going to be any awakening moment for these kids,
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but there's nothing that would cause that to happen
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not according to the people who run our society.
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this is something I've been sort of gabbing about
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well, you've got some bags under the eyes there.
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Okay, so you see there, one guy who has not been, I don't think he's been officially identified, but what we know is that he has not been, that guy was on camera all over the place saying, let's go to the Capitol, even if we get arrested, acknowledging that he knows it's a crime, trying to get the crowd to do it.
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He hasn't been arrested and charged with anything yet. In fact, some of the people in the crowd who were saying no and calling him a Fed, they've been arrested and charged, but not him.
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What does that tell you? Well, that was the question that Congressman Massey had for Merrick Garland. Let's listen to that.
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All right, you have those images there, and they're captioned. They were from January 5th and January 6th.
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As far as we can determine, the individual who was saying he'll probably go to jail, he'll probably be arrested, but they need to go into the Capitol the next day, is then the next day directing people to the Capitol.
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And as far as we can find, this individual has not been charged with anything. You said this is one of the most sweeping investigations in history. Have you seen that video, or those frames from that video?
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So, as I said at the outset, one of the norms of the Justice Department is to not comment on impending investigations, and particularly not to comment about particular scenes or particular individuals.
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Okay, I was hoping today to give you an opportunity to put to rest the concerns that people have, that there were federal agents or assets of the federal government present on January 5th and January 6th.
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Can you tell us, without talking about particular incidents or particular videos, how many agents or assets of the federal government were present on January 6th, whether they agitated to go into the Capitol, and if any of them did?
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So, I'm not going to violate this norm of the rule of law. I'm not going to comment on an investigation that's ongoing.
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So, that's a yes. That's a yes. Because if the answer was no, if there were no federal agents trying to rile the crowd up, then he would have no problem saying, no, of course that didn't happen. What are you talking about?
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There's no reason. I'm not going to violate the rule of law. The rule of law says you can't, if there were no federal agents in that crowd, the rule of law says you can't tell us that?
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And now they're arresting, you know, the guy with the buffalo hat or the guy who took the podium and walked out with it.
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Every time I see Merrick Garland, he is the, you know, if you were to look up the term banality of evil in the dictionary, you would see Merrick Garland.
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And this kind of empty, dull, you know, just straight faced, emotionless person.
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Nothing immediately objectionable about them, but then you listen to what he's saying and what he's doing and it becomes clear.
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And also, by the way, Congressman Massey there, bringing up a very important point, getting a chance here to cross-examine the attorney general.
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Congressman Massey is, and you know how I feel about politicians in general and about Republicans.
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It takes a lot for me to be impressed by a politician, but Congressman Massey is one of the few good ones.
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So I don't agree with him on every single issue, but he's a talented and skilled politician.
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And, and a, a, a, a real valuable defender of the conservative cause.
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And someone who's, who's actually trying to, to root out corruption in DC and putting his own career and reputation on the line and doing so.
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And he's also one, and you might not want to hear this, but he's, he's one Trump, when he was in office, tried to run Massey out of town.
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Trump tried to get Massey out of office because what, what did Congressman Massey do wrong?
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He didn't show enough personal deference to Donald Trump as an individual.
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And that's why Trump hated Massey and wanted him gone.
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Even though he's one of the best Republicans we have in Congress.
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Because Trump's flaw as a leader, his biggest flaw, and this is important to remember as we get into 2024.
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His biggest flaw as a leader, his fatal flaw is that for him, when it comes to hiring people and deciding who to elevate and who to support.
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The number one qualification, as far as Trump is concerned, is, is how they feel about him personally.
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Which means that a lot of really, he tried to run a lot of really talented and valuable conservatives out of town while hiring a lot of establishment swamp snakes and rats because they flattered him.
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I mean, you have to be able to recognize the talent and value of people, even the ones who don't personally like you that much.
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You have to be able to set that aside, especially when we've got a country to save here.
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And that is a flaw that, as far as we can tell, Ron DeSantis does not share.
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Which is why it's DeSantis 2024 all the way, as far as I'm concerned.
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This is a big, big update on a story that many people have been following.
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The FBI on Thursday confirmed, confirmed that remains recovered from a nature preserve or park in Florida on Wednesday were Florida fugitive Brian Laundries.
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The comparison of dental records confirmed the 23-year-old's identity, according to the FBI.
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Laundries' former fiancee, Gabby Petito, turned up dead near a Wyoming campsite the couple shared in late August.
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And now, and of course, as you know, there's been this manhunt that's been going on for weeks.
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And finally, they recovered remains and they belong to Brian Laundries.
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I guess we still don't know exactly what happened to him.
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They're going to do, you know, they'll do the autopsy and all that kind of stuff.
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I will say, though, and I haven't followed this story very closely, but, you know, the news yesterday was that the FBI, they were going to Brian Laundries' house to let his parents know that they'd recovered the remains of their son.
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And I hear that, and I do feel a fair amount of sympathy for Brian Laundries' family and for his parents.
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What I don't quite understand is, in the media and online, just the incredible amount of venom that's been directed at the parents of Brian Laundries.
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I'm not even the most sympathetic guy in the world.
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So if I, if you, if you discover that I'm being more sympathetic than you about something, then you need to look at yourself in the mirror, because that shouldn't be the way, the way it works.
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They, they, they have been turned into public enemy number one.
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They've, they've, they've been, you know, the media has, has been camped out at their house for weeks, following them everywhere.
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Unless there's some sort of theory that they were involved somehow in the killing of Gabby Petito.
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Well, if that was the case, then that would change my, then my sympathy would go out the window.
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But I don't think there's any indication of that.
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I don't think that's even a theory that's on the table.
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I guess there's this, this inclination when someone does something horrible to blame the parents and to say, well, you obviously went, something went terribly wrong in the way you raised this person.
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And that could be the case, but not necessarily.
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You know, we, we raise our kids and this is something that we, as parents, we remain very cognizant of.
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And it's something that keeps us up at night sometimes is just the reality that our kids are human beings and with their own conscious life and, and, and their own will and everything.
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And they make their, and they can make their own choices.
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And so what keeps you up at night is the realization that you could raise your children perfectly.
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I mean, you could do everything right or almost, I mean, no one can do everything right, but you could do almost everything right.
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And, and you could love your kids and do what you think is best for them and instill in them the proper moral values.
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And they could still go out into the world and become horrible, monstrous people and do terrible things that could still happen because they still have free will.
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And when it does, it's not fair to put that on the parents.
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And now you think about the situation that parents are in, their child is a killer.
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And they probably feel that they can't really mourn their son in the, in the normal way.
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Like they don't have the right to because of this horrible thing he did.
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So it's just, it's the worst thing in the world, uh, you know, as, as a parent, I mean, you would think the worst thing in the world as a parent is to lose your child.
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But, um, one degree, even worse than that is when you sort of lose your child spiritually and you lose your child's soul because they commit some hideous evil act and then they die.
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It's like, that's, that is the ultimate nightmare.
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I would much rather be dead than have that happen to my kids or have my kids.
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I don't really understand why others don't, but okay.
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Things are go, we got, we've got the Halloween decorations.
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Things are a little bit topsy-turvy and bizarre.
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And so I have sympathy for this person also, a teacher in Riverside, California has been suspended for insensitivity to native Americans.
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And this stems from an incident in class where she was apparently trying to teach the kids, uh, a mnemonic device for trigonometry.
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So Katoa, um, which is something I'm not going to try to get in.
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I could explain it to you cause I'm a, I'm a trigonometry expert.
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So I'm not going to explain it cause you probably wouldn't understand, but it's a mnemonic device.
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And this was her method of kind of ingrained, you know, drilling that into the kids' heads.
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So Katoa, So Katoa, So Katoa, So Katoa, So Katoa.
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Okay. So listen, that's, that's not the method I would choose. If for some reason I was hired
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to teach trigonometry, uh, to high school kids, I probably wouldn't do that. But in, in her defense,
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you will never forget Sokotoa. Will you, you will remember, I don't even know what it is, but,
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but I will always remember Sokotoa. And it does kind of sound like an Indian chief, doesn't it?
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So this is what it's about. It's, it's finding outside the box, thinking of ways to get kids to
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remember the material. And so I'm going to defend her on that basis. But unfortunately she has been
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suspended and not even, it's not, it's not that she's been suspended because it's suspected that
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she had a mental breakdown in the middle of class. Uh, no, it's because of insensitivity to Native
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Americans. Here's the statement from the Riverside Unified School District. It says a recording of
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one of our teachers has been widely circulated on social media. These behaviors are completely
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unacceptable and are offensive depiction of the vast and expansive Native American cultures and
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practices. Her actions do not represent the values of our district. The teacher has been
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placed on leave while the district conducts an investigation. Um, and this was originally, I think
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this, this, uh, video was recorded by a Native American student who, according to the person who
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posted it initially felt that this, that this, uh, performance by the teacher was an act of violence
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against him. Now you could say there was an act of violence against all of our eardrums in a certain
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way. But of course the idea, the idea that this is a somehow offensive to Native Americans is, is
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absurd. It was supposed to just be a silly way of getting kids to, to remember it. And they will
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none of those kids, none of those kids will ever forget Sokotoa. They might forget everything else
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they've learned in school. They won't forget that. And she's suspended for it. I, I personally find it,
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uh, outrageous. All right, let's read the comments.
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Who's rocking polka dot and flannel shirts without shame? Do you know their name?
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Uh, oh yeah, before we read the comments, I, I almost forgot about this also. This is from a tweet from the
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DCist, um, news organization that covers news in DC. And there's a picture there of the, uh, of the,
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of the capital of DC and, uh, drowned by, by water. And it says, imagine seeing the Lincoln Memorial
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surrounded by churning Potomac waters or only being able to access the Pentagon by boat. This is what DC
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might look like if the world continues its current greenhouse gas emission levels. And I saw this and I
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thought, well, that's, that's, um, wow, that's incredible. And that's why I decided to leave my
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car idling all day while I'm at work. I mean, you're, you're telling me another benefit of global,
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global warming is that we get to wash DC into the sea.
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With drowning Washington, DC, that's, that's supposed to be a, what a downside.
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It also looks kind of fun. I mean, imagine that you, you gotta take a little boat, a little ferry
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to get to the, um, Lincoln Memorial Island there. Looks fun. Okay. This is from a sweet mama G says,
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I would rather hitchhike with a sign that says I'm an orphan. No one will look for me than fly a
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legion. Also, Michelle Fiore was my assembly woman in Vegas. She actually would make a great governor.
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She was on the front lines with the Bundy ranch. If you remember that she opposed Harry Reed's ban
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on raw milk because his son got a tummy ache from it. And she often holds open houses at her house
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for the community to have discussions about local issues. She's extremely involved with the community
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in Vegas. Um, I'll take your word for it. I don't know. Like I said, I don't know anything about her.
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Um, it's just a bad, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a bad ad is my point. It's a very bad advertisement
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for a politician because what you're telling me about her is that she's a serious person
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who has achieved real things and, um, is a, is a, is a real asset for the conservative cause and
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for the people of, of Nevada. That's what you're saying. But I didn't, that's not what I got from
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the advertisement. What I got from the advertisement is that this is a ridiculous, shallow person
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who has nothing to say other than the most basic and stereotypical talking points.
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So not a good ad. Uh, this is from for Roars dragon. Matt's pivoting between I'm always,
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I'm always right. My opinion should be iron law for all men. And my podcast is a pathetic waste of
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time really throws me off balance. Well, I don't see why I can't be both. Isn't it possible that
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I'm always right. And my podcast is a pathetic waste of time. I think it is. That's what I'm
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going with. That's how I thread that needle. Um, Sean says as someone whose job it is to work on
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airplanes, I can tell you, Matt, that this actually is very common. A lot of technology in
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airplanes is about as old as an N64 and turning it off and on again, usually does solve most of the
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problems. If something breaks, it only needs to work once for someone to sign off, sign it off as
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fixed. Was this supposed to make me feel better about flying? It probably wasn't. You're trying to,
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this, this is what you think I need in my life is more anxiety. So something's broken and then it
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works once. And then they say, well, let's take it up 35,000 feet. See if this holds.
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Sean, you're banned from the show. I blame you for this.
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Um, Joshua says, Hey Matt, huge fan. Quick question.
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How would you persuade your fiance into taking your last name for marriage? If she were opposed to
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doing so, should it be a deal breaker or red flag? If she doesn't love the show almost as much as you
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love advertising your sponsors. Well, then you must really, really love it. And, um, is it a deal
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breaker? If your fiance doesn't want to take your last name? Uh, yes, it, uh, it is a deal breaker.
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Um, it's, it is a red flag. It's beyond a red flag. It's a deal breaker. I would say
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because the whole point as when you get married is that now you are becoming one, you're becoming
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unified one family. And so if you're planning on marrying a woman and she's saying, I don't want
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to take your name. What she's saying is I don't want to be completely unified to you. I don't really
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want to be one family unit. You know, I want to maintain this division. I want there to be this
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sort of line that separates us. A name is not a small thing as, as human beings and having a last
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name as a family. It's one of the things that ties you together, that identifies you as a family,
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as a family unit, not multiple little units. Okay. As a family, you want to be one unit, a home,
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not like an apartment complex where you're all in the same building, but you've got different,
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your own little units and your own little, um, separate lives divided by walls and everything.
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So yeah, I would say that that's a, that's a deal breaker. It doesn't mean you can't marry her,
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but it should be like, we're, this isn't happening unless, unless you, you agree that we're going to
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have, we're going to share a name. We're going to be one family. I mean, I would say the same about,
00:49:10.060
uh, if, if I was getting ready to marry somebody and they said they wanted to have different bank
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accounts and bank accounts aren't even as profoundly important as names. Um, but once again, that,
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that to me shows that you want to maintain divisions. You don't really want to be unified.
00:49:31.000
You don't want to become as one. You want to be two separate people, have your own account,
00:49:35.160
your own, uh, you know, and so I would see that also as a, as a, as a deal breaker. Um, Claire says,
00:49:45.940
Matt, how come you don't just bring your, my pillow with you when you travel, you talk about
00:49:50.960
how bad you miss it when you're away from home. So when it just makes sense to take it with you.
00:49:55.500
Well, because I'm a man and men don't travel with pillows. That's my, let's say my wife does that.
00:49:59.660
My, this is why anytime we go somewhere in a car, we go on a, like a week vacation and, and half of
00:50:06.840
the car is packed to the brim with pillows because all the kids and my wife, they got to bring their
00:50:11.420
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00:50:20.820
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00:51:56.680
So today I have a somewhat belated reverse cancellation. Earlier in the week, I said that
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two men should not be allowed to adopt babies, just as two women shouldn't be allowed to adopt babies
00:52:05.360
either. And I don't think single people should be allowed to adopt babies, by the way. I believe that
00:52:09.400
every baby deserves and needs both a mom and a dad. And that's what the law should stipulate. Now,
00:52:14.540
as you may recall, this all came up during the paternity leave debate. You may also recall that
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when I made that statement about gay adoption, I predicted that media matters would try to hit
00:52:23.500
me for it. And mere hours later, my prophecy was fulfilled. The left-wing activist group pulled
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the clip, posted it to their site and their social media pages. And soon some LGBT news sites had picked
00:52:34.100
it up as well. You know, I just sort of ignored them and the outrage fizzled out in about 12 hours.
00:52:39.340
And that's what happens with most outrage when it's ignored. As much as I love to intentionally
00:52:43.580
antagonize my cancelers, I have to say there's something especially satisfying and also hilarious
00:52:48.740
allowing them to scream impotently into the void while you go about your day as if they don't
00:52:52.980
exist. I should probably adopt that gratifying approach more often than I do. The problem is
00:52:58.740
that I just enjoy arguing too much. And that's why I can't let this week end without circling back
00:53:04.080
Misaki-style to say a few more things on this topic. Now, to help frame this discussion, we'll use the
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hit piece published by the gay news site LGBTQ Nation. And it says, quote,
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Matt Walsh, a right-wing blowhard with the conservative website The Daily Wire,
00:53:19.840
has criticized Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg for taking paternity leave to help his
00:53:23.400
husband raise their adopted newborn twins. Walsh said that it was absurd, a luxury, for public
00:53:28.280
employees like Buttigieg to receive two months off to care for their children on the taxpayer dime
00:53:32.260
because the U.S. is deeply in debt and facing a transportation crisis. But then he showed his
00:53:36.980
true concern, gays raising kids. Walsh said, quote, babies need their mothers, which is why two men
00:53:43.680
shouldn't be allowed to adopt babies in the first place. Repeating a decades-old anti-LGBTQ line
00:53:50.280
that every child deserves a mother and a father. He continued, the outrage mob can now start a
00:53:55.660
secondary campaign over that comment. But I'll say it again, two men should not be allowed to adopt
00:53:59.500
babies because babies need mothers and fathers. They also need fathers, which is why two women
00:54:04.220
shouldn't be allowed either. Not only is Walsh repeating lies used by anti-LGBTQ organizations around
00:54:11.040
the world, but he's also wrong. Numerous studies have shown that same-sex couples raise children
00:54:16.140
just as healthy as mixed-gender parents. Also, he's inadvertently arguing that single parents
00:54:20.900
shouldn't be allowed to raise kids either. No, I'm not. I'm saying single parents shouldn't be
00:54:26.800
allowed to adopt kids. And there's nothing inadvertent about that. The article goes on
00:54:31.820
for a little while longer before finishing with this. As for Walsh, he recently rented a home in
00:54:36.560
Loudoun County, Virginia, just so he could speak against the county school district's pro-transgender
00:54:40.820
student policies. So it's hardly surprising to hear anti-LGBT speaking points dribbling out of
00:54:47.760
his mouth. Now, I take exception to this. Talking points don't dribble out of my mouth. I think a
00:54:54.180
term like spewed or spouted or ejected or disgorged would be more appropriate. And aside from that, I think
00:55:00.940
there are a few more important points to be made on this topic of gay adoption. The first is that
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advocates for gay adoption will always assure us that studies have vindicated their position. You
00:55:12.660
heard it again in the article I just read. People these days, they think that any discussion can be
00:55:16.620
ended, any argument can be won by quickly scanning Google for a study that allegedly supports whatever
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preconceived notion they have in their head. Well, they don't bother doing what nobody ever seems to do
00:55:28.200
is actually read the studies they cite. And that's a problem because as it turns out, literally anyone
00:55:34.640
can do a study and engineer it to prove literally any proposition. There are no laws governing how
00:55:40.720
studies are conducted or what methods have to be used. I could go out right now and conduct a study
00:55:46.800
to prove that pigs can fly. But you'd have to read the study to find out that when I say pigs can fly,
00:55:53.400
what I really mean is that if you launch them from a catapult, they'll travel through the air a certain
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distance before splattering all over the ground. The point is that methodology is important.
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Methodology matters. And so when you actually take the time to read the studies that are cited in
00:56:08.760
support of gay adoption, what you'll find is that the methodology is almost as ludicrous and arbitrary
00:56:14.540
as hurling pigs through the air with a catapult. For one thing, most of the studies rely on self-reported
00:56:21.640
data from the parents. Okay. So the researchers ask gay parents how their kids are doing emotionally,
00:56:27.440
how they're doing psychologically, and so on. And this is obviously going to lead to some biased
00:56:32.740
answers, especially because oftentimes these are not blind studies. The participants know that the
00:56:38.920
researchers are studying gay parenting, which means they have a vested interest in giving a certain
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answer, which means they're probably not going to say, oh, gee, my kids are doing pretty poorly.
00:56:47.920
I think I'm really screwing them up. Furthermore, these studies don't pull from random and representative
00:56:54.420
samples of the population. Many of the studies focus on high-income lesbian mothers who can afford
00:57:00.920
IVF treatments. The sample sizes, along with being not random, not representative, and not blind,
00:57:07.260
are also very small most of the time. And then there's perhaps the biggest problem of all.
00:57:12.160
So to claim that children do not suffer any detrimental effects from being raised by same-sex
00:57:17.800
parents, you would need to track a very large, socioeconomically diverse sample size for a long
00:57:24.640
period of time. As parents, we don't really know how our parenting has panned out until our kids are
00:57:31.360
adults. But gay adoption has not been legal and widespread enough for long enough to have that
00:57:37.500
kind of data. So it's the same thing you run into when LGBT activists claim that puberty blockers
00:57:42.860
don't cause any long-term ill effects in kids. Well, how could they possibly know that? We didn't
00:57:48.400
start dosing large numbers of physically healthy kids with this stuff until the last few years.
00:57:52.880
You're just assuming it won't cause long-term damage. You believe it won't. You want us to
00:57:58.520
believe it won't. But you don't know that because you can't know it. This is why we must use
00:58:05.300
other resources aside from academic studies to parse this question. Resources like common sense.
00:58:11.600
Resources like the history of the human race. Precedent. Also biological science. So taking all
00:58:19.660
those things into account, here's what we can say. All children have a mother and a father. That's how
00:58:26.620
nature set it up. Now, I believe, and nearly everybody in the entire world everywhere believed
00:58:31.240
until 12 seconds ago, that the mother and father roles are important and distinct and not expendable.
00:58:39.380
Children need both parents. Some children will be deprived of what they need because of death or
00:58:44.820
divorce. But the point is that it is a deprivation. They can survive it. They might even thrive in spite
00:58:51.400
of it, but it will be in spite of it. Every child should be raised by a mother and a father.
00:58:57.080
The cruel reality of life is that not every child will have that, even though they should
00:59:01.720
have it. But as a society, we should do what we can to ensure that as many children have it as
00:59:07.100
possible. As it happens, there are millions of man-woman couples waiting in line to adopt babies
00:59:12.520
as we speak. Every baby could go to a loving home and be given the gift of a mother and a father.
00:59:17.460
There's no good reason to deprive them of that gift. The only reason is that some gay couples want
00:59:23.200
to adopt and it would cause them emotional pain if they were prohibited from doing so.
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My contention is that the needs of the child should come before the emotional desires of the adults
00:59:32.840
in this case. So let's flip this around. If you're a proponent of same-sex adoption,
00:59:39.080
you clearly believe that either the mother or the father role or both are expendable.
00:59:44.920
In taking that position, you are asserting something that is radically contrary to everything
00:59:50.080
we've observed as human beings through the course of human civilization. You are making an extreme
00:59:54.800
claim. I would even say a bigoted claim because you are ruthlessly negating the value and importance
01:00:00.900
of mothers and fathers. The burden of proof in this situation falls on you. But of course,
01:00:07.340
the only way to prove that mothers and fathers really are expendable, as you believe, is to forge
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ahead as though they are and then check back in 50 years to see if you were right. That is,
01:00:17.720
in fact, the course we've chosen in our society. We've chosen through this issue and many others
01:00:23.560
to treat kids as lab rats, to take them and verge off in a radically different direction
01:00:33.980
and give them a life and an existence and a world that is totally severed from the life,
01:00:42.280
existence and world that all of the rest of us lived in. And we're just going to do this
01:00:47.300
and see if it works. It won't. And there's no good reason to try.
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And that's the point. And that's why I must take these, I must resurrect this cancellation
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attempt of me and say to the cancelers that no, in fact, you are canceled. And that'll do it for us
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today and for the week. Have a great weekend. Thanks for listening. Godspeed.
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