The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 825 - Media Shocked To Discover That Children Need Fathers

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Walsh Show, the media is shocked to discover that dads matter.

00:00:03.820 Apparently, children need male role models in their life. 1.00

00:00:06.520 Maybe the nuclear family isn't a patriarchal conspiracy after all.

00:00:09.700 Also, the latest on the bizarre and tragic Alec Baldwin story.

00:00:13.500 And the Treasury Secretary now wants to levy taxes on unrealized capital gains.

00:00:18.740 And if you don't know why that's insane and tyrannical, I'll explain.

00:00:22.240 Plus, the White House unveils its national gender strategy,

00:00:25.340 whatever the hell that's supposed to mean.

00:00:26.860 And our daily cancellation, I once again find myself at the center of controversy.

00:00:29.820 And outrage this time because I dare to suggest that women should take their husband's last names. 0.81

00:00:35.340 Shocking stuff. All of that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.

00:00:47.400 So we begin the week with something positive for a change.

00:00:50.260 This only happens about once a year on this show.

00:00:52.500 So soak it in while you can.

00:00:54.540 CBS News aired a report on Friday about some unique measures being taken

00:00:58.840 at a high school in Louisiana to stop the violence and chaos that had been plaguing the campus.

00:01:04.620 Southwood High School in Shreveport began the year in September with multiple major brawls

00:01:11.060 and fights and everything between students.

00:01:14.940 And over the course of just three days,

00:01:17.480 over 20 kids were arrested for assault and other charges.

00:01:20.760 And that's when, as the CBS report tells us,

00:01:24.620 the dads of the community decided to do something about it.

00:01:28.020 Let's listen.

00:01:29.420 Team.

00:01:30.460 Nobody here has a degree in school counseling.

00:01:33.380 No.

00:01:34.220 No majors in criminal justice.

00:01:36.180 No, no.

00:01:36.820 Your qualifications are?

00:01:38.540 We're dads.

00:01:39.720 We decided the best people who can take care of our kids are who?

00:01:43.420 For us.

00:01:44.080 So Michael Lafitte started Dads on Duty.

00:01:47.360 We're out doing what we do for our babies.

00:01:49.060 A group of about 40 Southwood dads who now hang out at the school in shifts.

00:01:53.220 Let's go.

00:01:53.980 Today, any negative energy that enters the building has to run a gauntlet of good parenting.

00:01:59.320 What's going on, buddy?

00:02:00.540 You moving fast.

00:02:01.480 I like that horse.

00:02:02.660 I immediately felt a form of safety.

00:02:05.200 We stopped fighting.

00:02:06.460 People started going to class.

00:02:08.100 How could that be?

00:02:09.540 You ever heard of a look?

00:02:11.000 A look?

00:02:11.800 Dads have the power to do that?

00:02:13.280 Yes.

00:02:14.720 Not many people know it, but yes.

00:02:17.280 Let's go.

00:02:17.820 Let's go.

00:02:18.280 But it's not just the firm stares and stern warnings.

00:02:21.460 Let's make it to class, my son.

00:02:23.140 It's also the dad jokes.

00:02:25.480 They just make funny jokes like, oh, hey, your student's on tight, but it's really not on tight.

00:02:29.760 They hate it.

00:02:30.920 They're so embarrassed by it.

00:02:33.060 And it's that perfect mix of tough love and gentle ribbing that dads do so well that

00:02:38.280 has helped transform this school.

00:02:40.020 The school has really just been, like, happy, and you can feel it.

00:02:45.520 Which is why the dads plan to keep coming to Southwood indefinitely.

00:02:49.800 Because not everybody has the father figure at home.

00:02:53.460 Or a male period in their life.

00:02:55.960 So just to be here makes a big difference.

00:02:59.580 Do you think you stumbled onto something here?

00:03:02.000 Absolutely.

00:03:02.440 Have you stumbled onto something, he asks?

00:03:06.900 Yes, they've stumbled onto something called fatherhood.

00:03:10.440 See, you know, I watch something like this and I want to celebrate it.

00:03:13.960 I do celebrate it.

00:03:14.820 Dad's getting involved, taking charge of their children and their communities.

00:03:19.300 It's a beautiful sight to behold.

00:03:21.580 And yet I'm frustrated at the same time that so many in our culture, especially those who

00:03:26.660 control the narrative, can't connect the dots or refuse to connect them.

00:03:31.580 I mean, the media will tell us heartwarming stories like this and they'll rightfully applaud

00:03:35.420 the men who've stepped up.

00:03:36.960 Then they'll write the whole thing off as a gimmick, an aberration, or at best as something

00:03:40.440 isolated.

00:03:41.680 Sure, lots of problems can be fixed when dads get involved, but only at school and only

00:03:46.480 when they're wearing matching t-shirts and only when they give themselves a clever name

00:03:50.400 like Dad's on Duty.

00:03:51.340 Then they'll go back to supporting organizations like BLM, which has the explicit goal of destroying

00:03:57.900 the nuclear family.

00:03:59.700 And they'll go back to pretending that men and women are interchangeable and identical.

00:04:03.400 And they'll go back to celebrating single motherhood as the pinnacle of parenting excellence.

00:04:09.220 And they'll go back to calling you racist if you suggest that many of the problems in the

00:04:12.800 black community stem from the scarcity of fathers in the home.

00:04:16.660 See, this dad's on duty thing is then relegated to a cute little human interest story, a nice

00:04:23.180 two-minute video that can go viral on Twitter.

00:04:26.200 The broader societal implications are ignored because they, in the media, they're not going

00:04:32.220 to stop to ask, you know, why this school experienced a seemingly miraculous change simply

00:04:39.320 by the physical presence of firm and attentive men on school grounds.

00:04:44.160 This cognitive dissonance goes beyond the media.

00:04:49.040 They're the ones driving it purposefully.

00:04:50.720 But there are a lot of normal people in our society who struggle with this same disconnect.

00:04:55.300 I couldn't help but notice lots of the accounts with BLM in their bio were sharing this video,

00:05:00.780 apparently not realizing that the content of the video directly contradicts and flies in

00:05:05.900 the face of the stated goals of the organization they pledge allegiance to.

00:05:09.960 But if we're able to somehow lift our heads above this swirl of contradictions, we'll see that

00:05:16.300 the dads in Shreveport are not some anomalous case, nor are they living in a cultural vacuum.

00:05:22.980 This is true universally.

00:05:26.460 Children need fathers, preferably their own fathers. 0.97

00:05:28.840 And if they can't have their own fathers, either because he's dead or worse, he has chosen to

00:05:33.380 abandon them, then they need male leadership somewhere else. 1.00

00:05:37.640 A child who grows up with no male leadership at all, a child who is raised only by women, 1.00

00:05:44.100 this is a lot of kids, will be severely disabled psychologically, emotionally, and spiritually.

00:05:50.820 That's not because the female influence is bad for a child, but because the female influence 1.00

00:05:55.020 is only one half of the complete picture.

00:05:57.260 It's one half of the recipe.

00:06:00.060 A child can survive physically on half, but he'll be deeply malnourished.

00:06:05.880 So what is it that dads bring to the table?

00:06:08.200 Why can't they be so easily replaced?

00:06:11.120 Why do they leave an enormous hole behind when they abandon their posts?

00:06:17.880 Well, we see it in the clip that was just played.

00:06:20.100 For one thing, dads are a more imposing and formidable presence.

00:06:23.900 Kids are almost always better behaved when dad is around.

00:06:31.740 It's not because they don't respect mom, but because they see mom as a gentler and more

00:06:36.360 empathetic presence.

00:06:40.080 It's crucial that they have such a presence in their lives, but there's a flip side to

00:06:44.040 every coin, especially in parenting.

00:06:46.300 And the flip side in this case is that they think they can get away with more.

00:06:49.000 They think they can be a little bit looser.

00:06:50.580 They can push more boundaries with mom.

00:06:53.900 Unless dad is there.

00:06:55.040 But a good dad is not just stern.

00:06:56.440 He's not solely an authority figure.

00:06:58.220 Dads can be playful and irreverent in a unique sort of way.

00:07:01.380 Again, moms have that role as well, but it manifests in different ways. 1.00

00:07:05.640 And then, of course, there's the most important dad contribution or one of the most important

00:07:10.380 contributions for a boy specifically.

00:07:12.740 Dad is around to show him how to be a man.

00:07:15.940 Ninety five percent of this job has to be done through demonstration, not lecturing.

00:07:21.240 And as a boy grows older, he might forget almost everything his dad ever told him, but he won't

00:07:26.800 forget the example that was set, for better or worse.

00:07:30.400 The boys at that school in Shreveport, most of them, have probably never had a man around

00:07:36.220 to show them how men are supposed to conduct themselves.

00:07:40.200 Millions of boys are being raised in this way on a sort of island, and it becomes very

00:07:44.700 much a Lord of the Flies situation, which becomes all the more pronounced in urban schools.

00:07:49.980 Because these are boys who are walking a path to manhood with no man walking in front of

00:07:56.020 them, no footsteps to follow, no guidance of any kind.

00:08:00.180 The result then is chaos, violence, despair.

00:08:05.100 Almost every bad thing we see in society, drug abuse, suicide, you know, crime, violent

00:08:13.960 crime, all of it stems back largely to this issue.

00:08:19.920 And we really have no right to expect any other result when we remove male leadership from

00:08:26.720 society.

00:08:28.520 Now let's get to our five headlines.

00:08:35.100 All right, so Halloween's coming up, of course.

00:08:39.200 My kids have already started their 12 days of Halloween.

00:08:44.040 Really, it's like two weeks.

00:08:45.280 Every holiday is like this.

00:08:46.400 Now, I don't know if it's like this in other families, and I'm always pointing this out

00:08:50.880 to my wife, that somehow these days, kids, at least my kids, celebrate each holiday like

00:08:56.700 a dozen times.

00:08:57.700 So my kids had a trunk or treat thing over the weekend, and that's just where you go to

00:09:03.260 a parking lot, and they go, and everyone's lined up in their cars, and they hand the

00:09:06.960 candy out.

00:09:08.320 And they'll have another one this week, and then they have like a Halloween party with

00:09:12.120 their friends, I think, and then they got actual Halloween.

00:09:14.880 Every holiday is like this.

00:09:16.060 It's celebrated in phases, kind of like stages of celebration.

00:09:19.760 When I was a kid, the holiday was one day, and that was it.

00:09:23.520 And my parents sent me out on Halloween alone with a pillowcase, and I wandered the streets

00:09:29.880 until about 3 a.m., and then I came back with nine pounds of candy, and half of it was

00:09:34.760 poisoned, and so they'd have to throw it out.

00:09:37.320 There was a lot of poisoning of candy back when I was a kid.

00:09:40.100 That's not really a thing that we worry about anymore, but back then, it was a big deal.

00:09:44.140 That's how I remember it anyway.

00:09:45.300 My memory might be slightly skewed.

00:09:47.840 And also, holidays were, so they were simpler, and they were more intense, but they were more

00:09:53.000 humble also.

00:09:54.500 Like one year, and I remember this distinctly, I wanted to be a knight in shining armor for

00:10:02.560 Halloween, a positive Halloween costume.

00:10:07.720 But my parents didn't want to go out and buy one of those costumes, and so my mom took a cereal

00:10:13.980 box and covered it in aluminum foil and put it on my head, and then I had a little plastic

00:10:20.400 sword, and that was my knight in shining armor costume, and then every single house I went

00:10:23.900 to, they thought I was an astronaut, and so I had this conversation a million times.

00:10:27.740 Oh, look at you, cute little astronaut, and I'd have to say, what?

00:10:31.220 I have a sword.

00:10:32.100 Do you think I'm an astronaut with a sword?

00:10:34.900 And then I realized that would actually be a cooler costume, to be a sword-wielding astronaut.

00:10:40.260 Anyway, that was Halloween back in the day.

00:10:41.960 It's not the same for kids anymore.

00:10:43.180 So, we'll start with this shocking, bizarre, terrible news that you've no doubt heard many

00:10:51.720 times over the weekend from the set of a new Alec Baldwin movie.

00:10:55.340 The cinematographer and director were both shot by Alec Baldwin.

00:11:00.180 The cinematographer is now dead because Baldwin fired a prop gun, quote-unquote, that apparently

00:11:06.640 had a live round in the chamber.

00:11:08.860 So, here's the latest on the story from TMZ.

00:11:10.560 It says, the gun that claimed the life of Halyena Hutchins might have been more than

00:11:17.520 just an on-set prop.

00:11:18.580 It was also being fired recreationally, even when cameras weren't rolling.

00:11:23.940 Multiple sources directly connected to the Rust production, which is the name of the western

00:11:27.940 they were filming, Rust, which obviously now will never see the light of day.

00:11:32.980 It says, they tell TMZ, the same gun Alec Baldwin accidentally fired, hitting the DPN director,

00:11:38.660 was being used by crew members off-set for target practice.

00:11:45.520 We're told this off-the-clock shooting, which is allegedly happening away from the movie lot,

00:11:50.120 was being done with real bullets, which is how some who worked on the film believed a live round

00:11:54.320 found its way on the chambers that day.

00:11:56.020 So, here's the thing about this.

00:11:59.080 Originally, when I heard this story, I thought there's no way you could blame Baldwin for this

00:12:05.560 or hold him criminally liable in any way because he obviously didn't know the gun was loaded.

00:12:11.360 And he was acting out a scene in a movie, or apparently now they were practicing a certain

00:12:17.020 shot they were going to do in the film where he's pointing the gun directly at the camera.

00:12:20.420 So, as the audience, you're getting the perspective of the person who's, you know, about to be shot.

00:12:28.560 And, you know, I thought, well, he's probably fired or held or used hundreds of prop guns

00:12:33.960 in dozens of movies over 20 or 30 years of acting.

00:12:36.820 And I assume never once did any of them have actual bullets in them.

00:12:41.240 So, you can't blame him for what was clearly a horrific accident.

00:12:46.020 And I thought that.

00:12:47.860 But then I learned, number one, that he was the executive producer on the film also,

00:12:52.260 not just the actor, which means his responsibility is increased.

00:12:55.840 But the other important thing that I learned is that apparently, from what I've read since then,

00:13:01.720 they usually don't, and this is, maybe this is a dumb assumption that I had.

00:13:05.960 I always assume that they use fake guns on the sets of movies, that these are not real guns,

00:13:10.080 they're basically like toy guns, but apparently not.

00:13:12.740 They use real guns.

00:13:13.540 This is what they do.

00:13:15.260 This is what I've been told anyway.

00:13:16.340 Most of the guns they use in these kinds of movies are real, but they're loaded with blanks.

00:13:23.080 And that changes things for me, I think, because ignorantly, I'd assume that they were all fake guns,

00:13:29.280 like very realistic toy guns, and that a lot of the sound and everything is added in post-production.

00:13:35.820 I don't know why they don't do that.

00:13:37.600 So, I think probably now they will.

00:13:41.920 But if that's the case, and it's a real gun, then the rules of gun safety apply.

00:13:51.940 And one of the main rules of gun safety is that you have to assume every gun is loaded,

00:13:58.000 which means once the gun is handed to you, even if you've got a prop guy on set or whoever

00:14:03.460 who tells you that it's a cold gun, which is apparently what they said as they handed it to him,

00:14:07.820 it's a cold gun, there's no bullets in it, you still have to check it yourself, which he didn't do.

00:14:13.460 And so, that goes back to his own responsibility.

00:14:15.740 Now, there are other complicating factors here.

00:14:19.200 Like, we talk about the standard rules of gun safety, and there's been a lot of this commentary

00:14:24.360 on social media about, well, rules of gun safety.

00:14:27.480 Yeah, but we also have to acknowledge that many of the standard rules of gun safety are

00:14:32.540 violated on a film set.

00:14:35.660 I mean, you're doing a lot of things on a film set with a gun that you would never do at a gun range.

00:14:40.620 Like, pointing it at somebody else, for example.

00:14:42.820 I mean, standard rules, again, standard gun safety rules, you never point your gun,

00:14:47.520 even if it's not loaded, you never point a gun at anything that you don't intend to destroy.

00:14:51.580 On a film set, they do that all the time in the course of making the movie.

00:14:55.400 So, not all of the normal rules apply, but this is one, if they're using real guns, that has to.

00:15:00.420 You've got to check it. He didn't check it.

00:15:02.560 And, I mean, it's, obviously, there's no malice involved here.

00:15:09.120 No one's accusing him of doing it on purpose.

00:15:12.080 But then it becomes, it seems to me, not a legal expert, but it becomes very similar to

00:15:16.760 having one too many drinks, getting behind the wheel of a car, and you kill someone.

00:15:21.460 And you're going to go to jail for that.

00:15:25.200 Now, I think that's what Alec Baldwin is facing here.

00:15:27.720 I don't see how you get away from it.

00:15:30.020 If he knew, if he knew that it was a real gun, even if he thought that it was cold or whatever,

00:15:34.840 if he knew it was a real gun, didn't check it, pulled the trigger, that's it.

00:15:39.120 All right.

00:15:40.740 Let's move to this.

00:15:42.340 Treasury Secretary Danny DeVito has a new plan, along with wanting to monitor all bank accounts

00:15:49.760 with $600 in transactions, which is almost all bank accounts, probably like 90% of bank accounts.

00:15:56.160 Now she also wants to tax, quote, unrealized capital gains, i.e. net worth.

00:16:03.420 Let's listen to her make this case. 0.90

00:16:04.840 I think what's under consideration is a proposal that Senator Wyden and the Senate Finance Committee

00:16:14.080 have been looking at that would impose a tax on unrealized capital gains on liquid assets

00:16:26.760 held by extremely wealthy individuals, billionaires.

00:16:31.460 I wouldn't call that a wealth tax, but it would help get at capital gains,

00:16:38.320 which are an extraordinarily large part of the incomes of the wealthiest individuals.

00:16:45.020 And right now escape taxation until they're realized and often they're unrealized and at death benefit from so-called step up of basis.

00:16:58.520 So it's not a wealth tax, but a tax on unrealized capital gains of exceptionally wealthy individuals.

00:17:07.340 This is truly the penguins most dastardly plot yet.

00:17:12.380 And it's not a wealth tax.

00:17:16.420 Well, what the hell is it?

00:17:19.560 Secretary DeVito, what is it if it's not a wealth tax?

00:17:23.180 This is literally the definition of a wealth tax.

00:17:26.940 We are taxing someone's net worth, their overall wealth, not their income.

00:17:31.580 So what that means is, for example, your home, that would count here as you haven't sold it, but it's part of your net worth.

00:17:47.760 And when we talk about someone's net worth, if you own a home, the equity in the home, that all factors in.

00:17:53.920 And so you would get taxed on that.

00:17:59.100 And you would get taxed on other investments, even if you haven't sold.

00:18:06.040 You would still get taxed.

00:18:08.920 Which means going back to the house, for example, and this would apply to all, I mean, stock market, everything.

00:18:14.300 Where you're getting taxed on investments that you have not actually sold.

00:18:18.580 So think about the phrase unrealized capital gains.

00:18:25.180 So these are gains that you have not realized, that haven't happened, don't exist.

00:18:30.840 It's not money that you actually have.

00:18:32.460 When we talk about, I think people have this notion in their head when we talk about someone's net worth.

00:18:39.580 And we say, I mean, let's talk about the billionaires for a second.

00:18:42.480 We say that Mark Zuckerberg's net worth is a hundred gazillion dollars or whatever it is.

00:18:47.640 And I think most people don't understand the first thing about basic economics.

00:18:52.660 They imagine a Scrooge McDuck vault in his house where he's got all of that, the hundred gazillion dollars.

00:18:59.940 It's all in gold coins in a vault and he just dives in and swims through it.

00:19:03.480 But that's not the case.

00:19:05.600 We're not talking about how much cash he has on hand or what he has in his checking account.

00:19:09.780 We're talking about the value of everything that he owns or has a stake in.

00:19:16.740 Home, business, investments.

00:19:20.040 They want to tax all of that.

00:19:23.280 They want to tax your real estate investment, which could be the home you live in.

00:19:27.960 And that would mean for a lot of people, if this trickles down the tax to non-billionaires, that would mean you have to sell your home to pay that tax.

00:19:41.480 And when you sell your home, you're already getting taxed.

00:19:43.560 That is a taxable event in and of itself.

00:19:46.200 So then there's more taxes that you're paying.

00:19:49.060 It's total madness, this plan.

00:19:54.340 And the scope by the government, the expanse of government power and oversight that would be needed to enforce something like this is unthinkable.

00:20:10.980 I mean, it's difficult to wrap your mind around it.

00:20:12.840 To tax people based on their net worth.

00:20:19.720 And if you think that this will, what they're telling us right now is that this will only be the billionaires.

00:20:24.240 Keep in mind, the monitoring of transactions of $600 or more, they say that that is also focused on the uber wealthy and the billionaires.

00:20:35.580 They want to, you know, they want to smoke out all the billionaires that are hiding transactions.

00:20:40.500 And so they're starting at $600 rather than $60,000 or something more realistic if they're targeting billionaires.

00:20:50.660 So while they say that they want to go after the billionaires, when it comes to the bank account monitoring, there's going to be a whole lot.

00:21:00.720 I mean, tens of millions of middle class people swept up in that and not by accident. 0.71

00:21:05.440 And I can guarantee you with this, it'll be the same damn thing.

00:21:10.680 Even if it starts with, okay, we're only targeting this little sliver of one half of one half of 1% of people.

00:21:19.020 Those are the only ones affected by this.

00:21:21.660 It will expand from there.

00:21:23.580 How do I know that?

00:21:24.620 Because it always does.

00:21:27.680 And I mean, always.

00:21:30.700 You look at the entire history of taxation in the United States of America.

00:21:37.500 Or we could even start with the institution of the income tax itself.

00:21:45.240 And you could start there.

00:21:49.000 And you will see that every single time a tax is proposed, including the income tax itself, it is always very, very limited.

00:21:57.440 It's this only this one little small percentage of people that are going to be affected by that, by this.

00:22:02.220 And even then, the effect will be minimal.

00:22:04.600 It starts there, and then it increases and increases and increases.

00:22:10.480 And the net, which is originally supposed to be this very small net to catch a small number of fish, has this habit of growing and growing and growing until all the fish in the sea are caught up in it.

00:22:22.060 That's the way it always works.

00:22:23.880 Always, 100% of the time.

00:22:25.640 And it will be this way with this as well.

00:22:29.400 Because when you give the government power, I mean, I don't know how many times we have to say it.

00:22:34.360 When you give the government power, it will never give that power back, ever.

00:22:41.140 And it will always expand that power.

00:22:43.340 So if, in principle, we say that this is the kind of thing the government can do and should do, which is to keep track of our net worth and to tax us on things we haven't even sold yet,

00:22:59.640 you know, to tax you on the sale price of something you haven't sold.

00:23:09.120 If we say, in principle, it's the kind of thing that the government can do, then it's the kind of thing they can do.

00:23:13.800 And they're going to keep on doing it.

00:23:18.820 I mean, I use phrases like total madness to describe this, but it's actually not, this is not madness at all.

00:23:27.720 This is a very considered plan with, for them, a definite end point that they won't tell us.

00:23:40.580 It's totally disastrous.

00:23:42.960 And I know why tyrants in the government would want to do something like this.

00:23:50.160 But I don't care where you fall on the political spectrum, which side of the aisle you're on. 1.00

00:23:54.660 You are simply a brain-dead clown. 1.00

00:24:00.540 I mean, you have to be the biggest moron on earth to go along with something like this. 1.00

00:24:05.360 Because it will affect you, too. 1.00

00:24:09.400 Unless you live your whole life and never own anything.

00:24:13.540 Okay, if you live your whole life never owning anything, never investing in anything.

00:24:18.400 You know, always living in homes other people own.

00:24:26.400 Never having any permanent, no permanence at all, no ownership.

00:24:31.120 If you live your life that way, then you wouldn't be affected by this.

00:24:34.940 And that is, in fact, how the government would like us to live.

00:24:37.880 All right, what else we got here?

00:24:41.520 So, the White House has just announced a national gender strategy.

00:24:48.860 And this was a big announcement.

00:24:50.660 And Kamala Harris made the announcement over the weekend.

00:24:54.480 And I'm looking right now at whitehouse.gov.

00:24:56.800 It's their fact sheet on the national strategy on gender equity and equality.

00:25:01.040 And it says, let's see here.

00:25:06.940 The strategy identifies 10 interconnected priorities.

00:25:11.120 One, economic security.

00:25:12.900 Two, gender-based violence.

00:25:14.940 Three, health.

00:25:15.880 Four, education.

00:25:16.780 Five, justice and immigration. 0.73

00:25:18.740 Six, human rights and equality under the law.

00:25:21.260 Seven, security and humanitarian relief.

00:25:23.560 Eight, climate change.

00:25:25.160 Nine, science and technology.

00:25:26.820 And ten, democracy.

00:25:27.680 It says, these priorities are inherently linked and must be tackled in concert.

00:25:34.340 And, of course, it also adopts an intersectional approach that considers the barriers and challenges

00:25:38.260 faced by those who experience intersecting and compounding forms of discrimination and bias

00:25:42.640 related to gender, race, and other factors, including sexual orientation, blah, blah, blah, yada, yada.

00:25:47.380 So, this is their gender strategy to combat, you know, gender-related discrimination

00:25:55.120 and to institute gender equity and equality.

00:26:02.340 And we're looking at all these areas that have nothing to do with gender whatsoever.

00:26:06.380 Climate change?

00:26:08.840 What in the world does that have to do with gender? 0.99

00:26:11.420 Climate change?

00:26:12.040 We all live on the same planet.

00:26:15.240 And whether there's man-caused climate change or not, and to what degree it's happening,

00:26:21.200 and whether we're barreling towards an apocalypse in 10 years or 12 years or 15 years or wherever

00:26:26.780 they move the goalposts to, you would think that we're all equally as affected by it.

00:26:31.580 If half of the country is going to be underwater in the next 10 years, I think whether you're a man

00:26:41.680 or a woman, I mean, I don't think that that has anything to do with stopping you from drowning. 1.00

00:26:50.420 Are men more likely?

00:26:52.120 Are we better at floating?

00:26:53.920 Are we more floatable?

00:26:55.420 I don't know.

00:26:57.560 So, of course, none of these have anything to do, or, you know, 9 of the 10 have nothing

00:27:02.360 to do with gender whatsoever.

00:27:05.040 But this also goes back, and you know I have to point it out, because I simply have to,

00:27:10.440 that they have a whole plan for helping women and making sure that women aren't just killed

00:27:19.320 by climate change.

00:27:20.380 Forget about the men.

00:27:21.060 And they have this plan, and yet they don't know what a woman is, and that's a problem. 1.00

00:27:26.820 That should be, before you can institute a plan like this, you would think, number one,

00:27:32.000 you should have to define your terms, but of course they can't do that.

00:27:34.880 All right, next, Attorney General Merrick Garland continues to prove himself to be a shill

00:27:38.840 and an ideologue and wholly unfit for the job.

00:27:42.800 Thank God the Republicans prevented this nutcase from getting on the Supreme Court, by the way. 0.73

00:27:47.180 It's one of the only real accomplishments, and it was an accomplishment, one of the only

00:27:51.660 real accomplishments of the Republican Party in the last 20 years has been keeping this guy

00:27:55.820 off the Supreme Court.

00:27:57.100 But unfortunately, they couldn't stop him from getting in the Department of Justice,

00:28:00.980 at the top of the Department of Justice as the Attorney General.

00:28:03.060 So here's the latest from Merrick Garland.

00:28:05.880 Along with our partners at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Office of the Comptroller

00:28:11.560 of the Currency, we are also announcing our first settlement under the initiative and our

00:28:17.320 second redlining settlement in the last two months.

00:28:22.160 Redlining contributed to the large racial wealth gap that exists in this country.

00:28:29.820 The practice made it extremely difficult for people of color to accumulate wealth through 0.96

00:28:35.980 the purchase, refinancing, or repair of their homes.

00:28:40.840 That discrepancy in wealth is clearly reflected in current homeownership rates.

00:28:46.660 Today, a white family is 30% more likely to own a home than a black family.

00:28:53.020 This present-day gap in homeownership rates is larger than it was in 1960.

00:28:58.380 Well, yeah, and they want black families to own more homes so that they can tax them into 1.00

00:29:05.460 bankruptcy like the rest of us, which is what their plan is.

00:29:07.920 But this raises the question of why is the Attorney General talking about homeownership

00:29:14.820 and racial discrepancies in homeownership?

00:29:19.540 And this relates to another clip that may not at first seem to be related, but I'm going

00:29:24.320 to play this for you and then we'll tie it all together.

00:29:25.860 Uh, here's Obama stumping for Terry McAuliffe in Virginia and they are, they're floundering

00:29:33.700 and they're desperate and they're panicked in the McAuliffe campaign.

00:29:36.060 And that's why they're bringing in, I mean, they're bringing in everyone they can.

00:29:39.620 Almost none of them actually live in Virginia, uh, bringing them all in to stump for Terry

00:29:44.680 McAuliffe.

00:29:45.420 But here's Obama dismissing concerns on the right, especially about school boards as, uh,

00:29:54.340 just a bunch of phony culture war stuff.

00:29:57.800 We don't have time to be wasting on these phony trumped up culture wars.

00:30:05.560 This fake outrage that the right wing media's pedals to juice their ratings and the fact

00:30:12.520 that he's willing to go along with it instead of talking about serious problems that actually

00:30:16.380 affect serious people.

00:30:17.720 That's a shame.

00:30:19.780 That's not what this election is about.

00:30:22.680 That's not what you need, Virginia.

00:30:25.820 Instead of forcing our communities to cut back at a time when we're just starting to recover,

00:30:30.940 we should be doing more to support people who are educating our kids and keeping our neighborhoods

00:30:36.080 safe.

00:30:36.520 Uh, you want to support people who are keeping the neighborhood safe? 0.72

00:30:40.960 We mean police officers, but, but of course this, this coward, you know, wants to, uh, he's,

00:30:49.160 he's obfuscating a little bit and he's not going to be direct in what he's saying, but it's very

00:30:52.900 clear, especially at the end there that what he's saying is that the, the, the parents showing up at

00:30:58.800 school board meetings are participating in a phony right-wing culture war.

00:31:04.540 This is all, it's trumped up outrage.

00:31:07.020 So parents who go to school board meetings because they're concerned about, they're getting

00:31:11.840 involved in their children's education and they're concerned about what their kids are

00:31:14.900 being taught.

00:31:15.500 That's phony outrage.

00:31:19.360 And, and, uh, and, and especially in Loudoun County where parents are upset because a girl

00:31:26.340 was raped in a bathroom and the Loudoun County school board covered it up. 0.94

00:31:30.440 According to Barack Obama, that's phony outrage to worry about girls getting raped in school. 0.96

00:31:36.800 Barack Obama says is phony outrage. 0.52

00:31:40.560 It's phony culture war stuff.

00:31:44.880 And this coming from someone on the left and it's all, it is always absurd.

00:31:52.780 Anytime anybody on the left, especially Obama of all people,

00:31:55.820 accuses anyone else of participating in a phony culture war, phony outrages.

00:32:02.140 That's all they do.

00:32:04.220 That is all they do every single day is invent new battlegrounds for the culture war.

00:32:13.160 That's it.

00:32:14.140 I mean, that is really it.

00:32:17.420 The attorney general, it's exactly what he was doing.

00:32:21.700 Talking about, uh, you know, finding it is, here's another battleground for the culture war.

00:32:25.820 Racial discrepancies in homeownership.

00:32:30.180 This is their version of leadership.

00:32:32.720 Pete Buttigieg, transportation secretary.

00:32:35.140 We're in the middle of a, of a, of a supply chain crisis.

00:32:38.660 He's still, still on paternity leave, but he, but he took time to do an interview a couple of days ago.

00:32:45.360 And, uh, he said that now he's, he's really focused on raising awareness about paternity leave.

00:32:52.120 Another culture war issue.

00:32:53.540 He's a transportation secretary.

00:32:56.120 Why is he talking about, forget about the fact that he went on paternity leave and is still on paternity leave for, for two months and counting.

00:33:02.860 Why, why, why is he talking about, about that on cable news?

00:33:09.600 The transport, well, because that's, this is all they do.

00:33:14.100 As far as they're concerned, this is their entire job.

00:33:18.260 Phony outrages, culture war issues on every level.

00:33:24.080 I mean, we, we played that, uh, clip of the teacher in, uh, I forget where the Riverside, I think in California, the trigonometry teacher doing the Sokatoa dance with the Indian feather headdress.

00:33:39.380 And she was, you know, kind of having a mental breakdown in the middle of school.

00:33:42.680 And now she's been suspended.

00:33:43.740 And we, and, and, and I did defend her on the basis that like, she's, this is a mnemonic device and she's trying to get the kids to remember Sokatoa.

00:33:51.640 And as I said, I, I remember it, you know, a few days later, those kids will never forget that.

00:33:55.780 She, she imprinted it in their minds.

00:33:58.140 And so she was successful in that way, but she was suspended.

00:34:00.540 You can make an argument for suspending her because, because it was, it was a little bit of a psychotic break that she appeared to have, uh, in the middle of the class. 1.00

00:34:07.040 But they left-wing activists showed up at the school and held a rally.

00:34:14.900 And, you know, I was looking at some of the pictures of them.

00:34:16.720 They got, they got the fist raised, you know, they've got their poster board signs.

00:34:20.580 They're marching outside the school about this because of some weird, awkward video of a, of a, of a trigonometry teacher chanting Sokatoa.

00:34:35.580 Sokatoa, this is what we're rallying.

00:34:37.720 You're, you're rallying over this.

00:34:39.320 You made signs about this.

00:34:41.740 Not because it's insensitive to Native Americans.

00:34:44.540 Even that, even that where everyone agrees that it's bizarre and like, fine, you suspend her.

00:34:49.680 No one cares.

00:34:52.240 Um, I'm the only, I think I'm the only person in the country actually defended her.

00:34:56.380 And for me, it's a very mild defense.

00:34:58.020 Even that becomes a battleground for the culture.

00:35:03.500 Even that's an opportunity for phony outrage.

00:35:07.160 Because this is all they do.

00:35:09.840 Uh, what else we got here?

00:35:11.360 I guess I should mention this headline.

00:35:12.860 Big deal.

00:35:13.260 Um, it says the CDC is very carefully monitoring the Delta plus variant.

00:35:18.360 So that's a thing now.

00:35:20.020 And it's terrible, honestly, you know, I'm pretty shaken by the Delta plus.

00:35:24.760 Because the last thing we need right now in the world is another streaming service.

00:35:28.760 We've got enough of those Delta plus. 1.00

00:35:31.120 Actually Delta plus sounds more like an upgrade you pay for on the plane to get free wifi and more leg room or something.

00:35:37.160 I'll tell you what Delta plus doesn't sound like.

00:35:39.680 It doesn't sound like anything you need to worry about.

00:35:41.360 Um, uh, one other thing I wanted to mention.

00:35:45.640 Oh, speaking of, speaking of phony outrageous, uh, going back to the Dave Chappelle story very briefly.

00:35:51.640 I just want you to get ready for this because the cave is coming.

00:35:55.600 Uh, here's from the New York post.

00:35:57.000 It says Dave Chappelle said he's willing to sit down with Netflix employees who organized a company walkout earlier this week in protest of controversial jokes that he made in his comedy special.

00:36:06.300 In the show, uh, blah, blah, blah.

00:36:08.120 We already know about that.

00:36:08.980 Um, but now his team is saying that they, uh, they want to sit down and they want to, they want to, they want to have a conversation with the, with the protesters.

00:36:16.380 And they're complaining that, you know, the protesters don't want to sit down and have a conversation.

00:36:19.820 And Yahoo has this.

00:36:21.180 It says that Dave, Dave stands by his art.

00:36:23.980 A spokesperson for Chappelle tells Yahoo Entertainment.

00:36:26.180 Both sides of the street are talking and Dave is listening.

00:36:30.100 At some point when everyone is open, I'm sure our communities will come together.

00:36:33.340 As Dave said in his special, no more jokes about transgenders until we can all laugh together.

00:36:39.840 I bring this up only again so that you can prepare yourself.

00:36:42.560 Uh, if you had latched on to Dave Chappelle as some sort of a champion, some sort of warrior against cancel culture, get ready for the fact that he will cave.

00:36:53.460 He already, he already has really with this response saying, okay, no more jokes like that.

00:36:58.580 Let's sit down and talk.

00:36:59.920 That's already, I think, kind of a cave.

00:37:04.020 And, um, the reason why I think the cave is inevitable is that he's getting little support from the people that he likes and whose respect and admiration he desires, like his fellow comedians, other celebrities.

00:37:15.820 There have been, have there been any major comedians who've come out in defense of Dave Chappelle?

00:37:21.440 Maybe there've been a couple, but even guys like, you know, Bill Burr, Jerry Seinfeld, who have spoken out against cancel culture in the past.

00:37:28.160 Have they said anything?

00:37:29.000 Maybe they have, um, but he's getting very little support from, from that crowd.

00:37:34.760 Meanwhile, he's getting a lot of support from people he doesn't like.

00:37:38.920 Okay.

00:37:39.360 Like us, he doesn't really like us as conservatives.

00:37:44.880 And if you want to know how he really feels about us, then go back to one of his other, one of his other recent specials, uh, what he said about Candace Owens.

00:37:54.000 Um, that's how he feels about conservatives, especially female conservatives. 1.00

00:38:00.000 And, and also the actual comedy special itself, I think tells you where this is headed because I hadn't watched it until this past weekend.

00:38:08.340 And I, I finally said, okay, I'll sit down and watch some of it.

00:38:12.720 And I watched most of it, but I didn't finish it because honestly, first of all, it wasn't that good.

00:38:18.080 Uh, there weren't many jokes.

00:38:20.220 It's not really a standup special.

00:38:22.080 It's more of a Ted talk.

00:38:24.080 There, there, there just aren't that many jokes.

00:38:26.080 And many of the jokes that he does tell that are pretty good have already been told a bunch of times on Twitter.

00:38:31.640 And I know because I told some of them, like his bit about DaBaby.

00:38:35.660 You heard that, you heard that bit on this show, like a month ago.

00:38:39.660 Um, not saying he plagiarized it more that just, these are jokes that have been out there.

00:38:43.980 And, uh, you know, the stuff he said about Caitlyn Jenner, women, winning woman of the year.

00:38:48.140 It's like, yeah, that's absurd, but we've all, that observation has been made many times.

00:38:52.920 Um, but more importantly, the whole thing to me, and what kind of surprised me about it,

00:38:58.580 what I wasn't expecting based on the reaction is that the whole thing seems like a, kind of a mea culpa.

00:39:03.700 It's very defensive, him kind of explaining himself.

00:39:08.500 And he, and he really wanted the audience to know that he's not a bad guy.

00:39:12.560 He's not a bigot.

00:39:13.320 That's a lot of it was, was him defending himself against claims of bigotry.

00:39:17.520 Um, he spent a lot of time trying to convince people of that.

00:39:21.600 So it was not the in your face, bold, kind of, um, politically incorrect spectacle that

00:39:28.120 it's been made out to be.

00:39:29.040 Not at all.

00:39:29.740 Not even close.

00:39:32.320 So get ready for that.

00:39:33.600 All right.

00:39:34.560 And now get ready for our reading the comments section.

00:39:38.720 Who's rocking polka dot and flannel shirts without shame?

00:39:44.000 Do you know their name?

00:39:47.800 They're the sweet baby gang.

00:39:51.600 Jonathan Swank says, these pronouns are not even pronouns anymore.

00:39:56.460 These people are just egomaniacal attention seekers at this point.

00:40:01.000 Well, I only take exception with your, at this point qualification there.

00:40:05.400 Uh, that's, that's what it's always been.

00:40:08.200 That's what, that's what gender ideology, gender theory has always been about, but it's 0.65

00:40:12.260 been about narcissism.

00:40:14.520 Uh, big boy says, I can't believe I'm here wishing physical bullying was still around.

00:40:19.420 Yeah, I, I, I think that you, you do find, um, evidence of that, that there are a lot of

00:40:25.940 people who never got punched in the nose because we took this zero tolerance policy towards any

00:40:33.960 form of, uh, violence at all.

00:40:36.200 And if there's even a fight, you know, everyone gets suspended no matter who was responsible

00:40:40.220 for it and who started it.

00:40:41.260 Um, and, uh, and, and, and we do see some of the fruits of that, that there is an advantage

00:40:48.900 to getting punched in the nose at a certain age.

00:40:53.800 And you'll learn some lessons from that.

00:40:55.120 And a lot of kids have never had that experience.

00:40:57.100 Um, joy says, I wonder what the advertisers think of Matt's advertising skills.

00:41:02.000 Wonder if they ever watched these clips and just squirm when he said, when he says those

00:41:05.600 eye bags are disgusting, get this product. 0.99

00:41:07.560 Unlike the normal advertising commercials, his actually bring me to tears and make me

00:41:11.700 feel the need to buy the product.

00:41:12.920 If I ever want to leave the house again, well, thank you.

00:41:15.920 I break you down psychologically, try to embarrass and humiliate you and shame you into buying

00:41:21.780 the product.

00:41:22.180 And that's, that is one strategy that I think really works.

00:41:26.100 Um, cool Papa J magic says over the last couple of months, Matt seems much more willing to share

00:41:31.260 his personal life and feelings with us.

00:41:32.980 What changed?

00:41:33.620 Well, I started drinking heavily before each show, so I think that probably is what did

00:41:37.760 it.

00:41:38.580 Um, female Casey Royals fan says, Matt, if you want the dog to like you, you should get

00:41:44.180 him a MyPillow brand dog bed.

00:41:46.820 Uh, no, I'm not going to do that.

00:41:47.940 And me and the dog are not on speaking terms right now because he ate, um, the, our remote.

00:41:52.600 And so I actually, my, my wife and kids were out of town for the night and, uh, I was looking

00:41:59.100 forward to, you know, just relaxing.

00:42:00.960 And I went downstairs for me and I came back up and, uh, the dog had, had, had eaten the

00:42:06.620 remote.

00:42:06.900 And so really, that meant that if I wanted to turn the TV, I had to get up and like physically

00:42:12.360 turn it on.

00:42:13.040 And it was, it was a whole big deal.

00:42:15.880 This is what I get.

00:42:17.320 We're trying to befriend this dog.

00:42:19.420 Uh, Derek says, surely Matt must now realize there's no going back from the decision to

00:42:23.320 decorate for Halloween.

00:42:24.620 I'm fully expecting a festive office for every holiday now.

00:42:27.300 Yeah, I understand.

00:42:27.960 That's, I understand what sort of toothpaste I've squeezed out of the tube here.

00:42:30.960 And that's, that's the way it's going to go.

00:42:32.160 It's fine.

00:42:33.040 Uh, Fat Daddy says, my name is Legion for, for we are many.

00:42:36.740 My pronouns are leege, legions, legion self.

00:42:40.420 Well done.

00:42:41.540 Don Smith says, uh, Matt needs to talk about people who are faking mental illnesses more 0.99

00:42:47.320 like multiple personality syndrome and Tourette's. 0.89

00:42:49.480 It's truly disgusting stuff.

00:42:50.600 And it's very hilarious at the same time.

00:42:52.360 I don't think it's, it's intentional faking in most cases, just as I don't think the enormous

00:42:55.580 spike in gender dysphoria is in most cases, intentional faking. 0.96

00:42:59.100 I think the human mind is incredibly susceptible to suggestion.

00:43:03.220 And we all know that that's where, you know, that's the stock and trade of hypnotist, um,

00:43:08.640 is it's through suggestion.

00:43:11.140 So if you think about it, you can actually manifest physical symptoms of an illness in

00:43:17.460 your body by convincing yourself that you have that illness.

00:43:21.200 Your mind can create physical symptoms.

00:43:23.480 I know that I can.

00:43:24.760 So you have one set of symptoms, let's say, then you look it up on WebMD and it says that,

00:43:28.980 well, if you have those symptoms along with a stomach ache, that means that your illness

00:43:33.180 is the black plague and you'll be dead in 36 hours.

00:43:35.700 And then what happens?

00:43:36.640 You say, oh no, you know what?

00:43:37.700 Actually my stomach does kind of hurt.

00:43:40.040 So if our minds can create physical sensations through the power of suggestion, how much more

00:43:46.240 can our mind manifest diluted mental states through the power of suggestion?

00:43:52.960 And that is, that is, that explains a great percentage of the gender dysphoria and everything 0.84

00:43:58.280 that we see in the culture today.

00:44:01.040 Um, finally from FLK, Matt, you've given a lot of commentary about planes, but you've yet

00:44:06.720 to discuss the issue of airplane bathrooms.

00:44:08.520 Why are they designed so that only a child can fit comfortably in them?

00:44:11.740 I don't know.

00:44:12.320 I mean, I don't think they're designed for children at all.

00:44:14.020 I mean, you ever try to take a child, you ever had this experience, try to take a child

00:44:18.960 to a bathroom on a plane.

00:44:21.600 Um, and now there's two of you inside this little, this little box.

00:44:26.980 And if it's a boy that you're taking to the bathroom while he's standing while he's doing

00:44:30.500 his business and, um, he already has issues with aim cause he's, you know, a small child

00:44:33.800 and, but, and, and that's on solid ground and now you're in a plane and it's shaken up

00:44:40.900 and down and it's really just a recipe for disaster.

00:44:42.480 I can remember taking my son's probably a TMI, but I remember taking my son to a bathroom

00:44:47.420 on a plane when he was about four or five years old and I don't want to get too graphic,

00:44:51.420 but it was, it was, um, it was like a sprinkler system in there.

00:44:55.720 And, you know, just, it was, and I'm going to him, stop, get it in the toilet, in the

00:45:00.740 toilet.

00:45:01.000 And he's going, I can't daddy.

00:45:02.280 I can't.

00:45:03.220 And it just got everywhere and I had to clean it up.

00:45:05.180 And there's a backlog of people waiting to get into the, into the restroom. 1.00

00:45:10.120 Um, it was very difficult.

00:45:12.880 Parenting in a bathroom is a whole other subject. 0.93

00:45:15.680 I could write a memoir about that, but, uh, I won't get into it right now.

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00:47:06.700 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:47:09.780 Now, once more, I find myself on the defensive side of the ball in this cancellation, though

00:47:15.540 as always, the objective is to make a play, get the turnover, put the offense on defense.

00:47:20.300 That's why I'm playing in the dime right now, six DBs on the field, free safety, back deep,

00:47:24.280 ready to grab the pick.

00:47:25.440 Kind of losing track of the point I was trying to make with this analogy.

00:47:28.440 Anyway, the point is this weekend, I was again the subject of outrage.

00:47:31.500 And this is embarrassing for me as someone who's normally quite meek and gentle and non-confrontational.

00:47:35.720 Prefers to shrink away from the spotlight.

00:47:37.080 I also consider myself to be a people pleaser, and I have other deluded ideas about my own

00:47:41.600 personality, but we won't continue down that path right now.

00:47:44.300 What upset the internet this time is a discussion that began on this podcast on Friday.

00:47:48.660 I read a comment from a listener during the reading the comments segment of the show where

00:47:52.560 he asked whether his fiance's refusal to take his name upon marriage should be considered

00:47:57.600 a red flag.

00:47:58.820 And I said that not only is it a red flag, but it's a deal breaker.

00:48:01.460 As a man, I would not marry a woman who didn't want to share my name. 0.99

00:48:06.120 I would recommend that other men draw the same line.

00:48:09.860 Now, I repeated this point on Twitter later that afternoon.

00:48:12.520 Everything that followed is therefore really the fault of the listener who brought this

00:48:15.860 subject up.

00:48:16.860 I hope you're happy, sir.

00:48:17.940 Look at what you've done.

00:48:19.220 This is on you.

00:48:20.780 So over the course of the next three days, a familiar chain of events followed.

00:48:24.600 Thousands of people very upset that I would suggest that women ought to take their husband's

00:48:28.020 name.

00:48:28.460 The fact that I would call this issue a deal breaker was all the more abhorrent to the

00:48:32.460 outraged masses. 0.99

00:48:33.280 They've let me know that I'm a sexist, a misogynist, a bad husband, a tyrant, a bigot, a barbarian. 0.98

00:48:37.780 One guy said that my opinion on the subject is evidence that I might be murderous and actually 0.92

00:48:42.320 a physical danger to my family just because I want to share my name with them.

00:48:47.780 Others went a different direction saying that my perspective proves that I'm a sexually repressed

00:48:52.020 virgin, a fact that will no doubt come as a great shock to the mother of my four children.

00:48:56.140 But rather than give a general overview, I think it'd be helpful in this case to read

00:49:02.640 a few of these specific responses.

00:49:05.040 And this, I think, is a good representative sample.

00:49:07.860 I'm choosing only from the blue check squad, verified accounts, media people, authors, academics,

00:49:12.360 and so on.

00:49:13.060 So here are a few of them.

00:49:14.220 Here's what they were saying.

00:49:16.720 Bethany says, I really don't hold much importance to my surname, a random name my granddad chose

00:49:21.680 in a pub after moving to England.

00:49:23.000 My mom has a different surname now, too, but I definitely would keep my name just to spite

00:49:28.700 angry men.

00:49:30.460 Steph says, this is so toxic. 0.97

00:49:32.680 Women do not belong to men. 1.00

00:49:34.160 Therefore, it isn't a requirement for us to be branded with your surname.

00:49:37.240 It's a woman's choice. 0.95

00:49:38.520 It's rare to hear of men taking women's surnames.

00:49:40.560 So if you won't do the same for us, keep quiet.

00:49:42.660 LOL.

00:49:43.580 Rachel says, would consider it a deal breaker if any boyfriend expected me to take his name. 0.98

00:49:48.300 Women have their own identities. 1.00

00:49:49.300 Any man who expects a woman to give hers up for him without discussion clearly doesn't

00:49:53.300 fully grasp that. 0.96

00:49:54.460 Heather says, damn, how do I break it to my fiancee that after 11 years, we're going to 1.00

00:49:58.280 have to end things because I'm not planning to change my name? 0.98

00:50:00.940 Is that something I do over text or?

00:50:03.880 And Amy says, I'm Amy Alcon.

00:50:05.860 I've always been Amy Alcon.

00:50:07.040 And even if I weren't an author, et cetera, marriages may come and go.

00:50:10.920 I'm me for a lifetime.

00:50:12.480 And my name reflects that.

00:50:13.920 Of course, the really funny thing about all this and most of the rest of the responses

00:50:18.180 from feminists on the subject is that they all seek to prove that they're strong and 1.00

00:50:22.380 independent women by refusing to take their husband's names and instead keeping their

00:50:26.520 father's names, quite literally participating in the patriarchy while pretending to dismantle

00:50:31.580 it.

00:50:32.520 The other thing almost as funny is that each response only underscores rather than undermines

00:50:38.180 the original point I was trying to make.

00:50:39.780 Bethany says that she would refuse to take her husband's name purely out of spite.

00:50:45.660 Now, fortunately for her, this probably won't ever come up.

00:50:48.380 I mean, she can actually force her cats to take whatever name she wants to give them. 1.00

00:50:52.060 But still, she confesses to being driven by spite.

00:50:55.720 Steph and Rachel see the unity of sharing a name as branding.

00:50:59.900 They would consider it a deal breaker in the other direction if their future husband dared

00:51:03.380 to request that they have a shared family name.

00:51:06.160 Heather says that she's getting married to her boyfriend after 11 years.

00:51:09.780 And doesn't plan to take his name.

00:51:11.220 11 years.

00:51:13.040 This is someone whose commitment issues are probably terminal at this point.

00:51:17.100 Doubly so for Amy Alcon, who says, again, marriages may come and go.

00:51:23.240 So you see in these answers, not just that cat ownership tends to make women very bitter,

00:51:27.740 but also evidence of two other things.

00:51:30.040 One, that the trend to move away from sharing the husband's name is driven primarily by an

00:51:37.140 ideologically fueled hatred of our cultural traditions.

00:51:40.340 And two, that it's a symptom of a society that fears commitment.

00:51:44.360 So let's talk about both of these in reverse order.

00:51:47.540 Starting with two.

00:51:49.360 Marriage, if it's anything worth doing, is the bonding of two people into one marital unit.

00:51:55.920 It is a union.

00:51:57.380 It is a decision to share your life.

00:51:59.540 And even in many ways, to share your identity with somebody else.

00:52:02.900 It's not that you lose your identity when you get married, but rather that your identity

00:52:06.080 is changed and it's bonded to this other person, fulfilled by them and by the love you share.

00:52:11.240 If this all sounds like a bunch of hocus pocus to you, that's fine.

00:52:16.260 But please don't ever get married.

00:52:17.940 I mean, why would you?

00:52:18.620 If you don't believe in what I'm saying, then you don't believe in marriage.

00:52:22.200 And the worst thing you can do when you don't believe in marriage is get married.

00:52:26.100 If you do believe in marriage, then the very first thing you should do, the very first 0.96

00:52:30.720 thing you should want to do is come together under the same name.

00:52:35.020 Is this a symbolic move?

00:52:36.700 Yes, but marriage is symbolic.

00:52:38.680 It's real, but it's also symbolic.

00:52:41.220 Your name is real and also symbolic.

00:52:45.060 You know what?

00:52:45.680 So we know what sharing a name symbolizes.

00:52:47.760 It symbolizes unity, commitment, togetherness, a shared life.

00:52:50.880 What then does not sharing a name symbolize?

00:52:54.680 You can't say it symbolizes nothing.

00:52:56.160 It's going to symbolize something.

00:52:58.400 That the decision to keep your own name is a symbolic gesture in its own right.

00:53:03.800 What is it symbolizing?

00:53:05.180 It symbolizes separation, detachment, disunion.

00:53:11.060 Names are important.

00:53:11.940 Everyone recognizes that at some level.

00:53:13.940 The left recognizes it, which is why they make such a big deal out of demanding that people

00:53:17.720 respect the new name of a trans person after they, quote, transition.

00:53:21.800 To call somebody by their old name, their dead name, as it's called, is an egregious offense.

00:53:26.340 Why?

00:53:26.620 Because names matter.

00:53:28.700 The symbolism in a name is profound.

00:53:30.560 John Proctor in The Crucible would rather be marched to the gallows than sign his name

00:53:34.780 on a false confession.

00:53:35.840 He was willing to give the false confession.

00:53:38.220 He was willing to have the whole town told that he gave it.

00:53:41.180 But he couldn't sign his name on the paper.

00:53:43.780 He chose death rather than that.

00:53:45.200 Why?

00:53:45.620 Because it's his name.

00:53:46.540 It's the name that his sons will carry down to their children and through the ages.

00:53:50.500 He couldn't stand to sully it.

00:53:52.640 In our deluded yet materialistic and utilitarian age, we don't understand things like dignity

00:53:57.120 and symbolism.

00:53:58.300 We pretend not to even understand why the symbolism of a shared marital name is so crucial.

00:54:03.300 Yet the people on that side admit to the truth when they say something like marriage

00:54:07.580 is come and go.

00:54:08.320 They see marriage as temporal and fleeting while names are deep and rich and permanent.

00:54:12.540 But marriage is supposed to be deep and rich and permanent also, which is why it should

00:54:18.500 be formed under a shared name.

00:54:21.380 But then, why share the man's name and not the woman's?

00:54:25.180 Well, a big part of the answer for me is that I believe the man is supposed to be the

00:54:29.340 head of the family.

00:54:30.100 That may be unfashionable to say, but I care about fashionable opinions about as much as

00:54:34.260 I care about the outrage from childless cat ladies. 1.00

00:54:37.000 But putting that aside, here's another reason.

00:54:41.000 Because it's a significant and enduring cultural tradition. 0.99

00:54:45.400 As already established, we live in a utilitarian age and also a stupid and shallow age. 0.95

00:54:50.940 So we tend to look at tradition as totally unimportant, superfluous, or worse. 0.95

00:54:56.440 We think that it's noble to break traditions just for the sake of breaking them.

00:55:00.480 We hate traditions.

00:55:01.320 We feel oppressed by them because traditions come from our ancestors, and we think that 0.98

00:55:05.700 our ancestors should have no say in how we live our lives, even though we live in the

00:55:09.600 civilization they gave us.

00:55:11.820 I reject that attitude.

00:55:13.520 I despise it, actually.

00:55:15.700 I think that if you're going to dismantle a tradition, you better have a good reason.

00:55:20.560 And the reason shouldn't be indifference or spite or half-baked notions of female empowerment. 0.97

00:55:25.780 You know, G.K. Chesterton said that, you know, there are many fences in the world that are

00:55:31.180 worth tearing down, but you damn well better understand why the fence was erected before

00:55:36.020 you demolish it. 0.98

00:55:38.100 Tearing down fences on a whim because they obstruct the path you wanted to walk is foolish and 1.00

00:55:42.900 arrogant and a good way to get your face eaten by a Rottweiler. 1.00

00:55:46.200 A similar thing can be said about our cultural fences, our traditions, which these days we dismantle

00:55:51.820 with no notion as to why, no coherent reason, and the result is that we lose the sturdy and

00:55:57.360 beautiful things our ancestors gave us, and we replace those things with nothing at all.

00:56:02.180 Sharing the husband's name is, among other things, a meaningful tradition dating back

00:56:05.640 centuries.

00:56:07.260 There are those who want to discard this tradition like they discarded so many others, which speaks

00:56:11.260 not only to their ignorance and their contempt for their own history and the voice of their

00:56:15.240 ancestors, but also for their disregard.

00:56:18.820 It speaks to their disregard for the whole institution of marriage.

00:56:21.820 That's why I said what I said, and I stand by it, and why I say now to those who are upset

00:56:29.520 about it, that you are, once again, I'm terribly afraid to say, canceled.

00:56:36.320 And we'll leave it there for today.

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