The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 866 - Armed Robbery Is Now A Misdemeanor In New York

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, as violent crime surges to record levels across the country,

00:00:04.080 the new DA of Manhattan has decided to pour gasoline on the flames. He's announced this

00:00:08.080 week that he will not prosecute armed robbery among a slew of other serious crimes. Why are

00:00:13.140 these people doing this? Are they trying to destroy their cities? And if so, why? We'll

00:00:16.660 talk about that today. Also, Joe Biden addresses the nation about Omnicorn and lies repeatedly.

00:00:21.040 What else is new? And we're only one day away from the sacred anniversary of January 6th.

00:00:25.800 How will you commemorate the special occasion? Plus, a prominent trans YouTuber apparently

00:00:30.340 does not approve of my bestselling LGBT children's book, Johnny the Walrus, and recorded a lengthy

00:00:35.020 video explaining why. I'll respond to that today. All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:01:45.560 Well, for several years now, billionaire supervillain vampire George Soros has been

00:01:50.240 quietly pumping many millions of dollars into local district attorney races all across the country.

00:01:55.640 Now, I haven't checked his Wikipedia, but I'm pretty sure that George Soros is about 285 years

00:01:59.740 old at this point, old enough to be Joe Biden's uncle, you know, and he's only has about probably

00:02:05.040 about a century left to live then. Yet he's decided to dedicate these waning moments of his life to

00:02:10.960 building an army of rabidly left-wing DAs who are all singularly committed to not doing the one single

00:02:19.060 thing their job requires them to do, which is prosecute crimes. They're prosecutors. That's

00:02:23.280 what they're supposed to do. Thanks to Soros, we now have DA Kim Foxx in Chicago, who recently refused

00:02:28.940 to prosecute a group of gangbangers who shot each other in the middle of the street. Also, DA George

00:02:34.780 Gascon in Los Angeles, who's overseen an enormous spike in crime since taking over a year ago in

00:02:40.120 that city. DA Larry Krasner in Philadelphia, who has presided over an historic surge in the homicide

00:02:46.240 rate. In fact, a dozen cities in the United States set new murder records this year, largely thanks

00:02:51.940 to Soros DAs. But we aren't supposed to notice the Soros connection. And if we do notice that we

00:02:58.180 aren't supposed to talk about it because Soros is Jewish and therefore any criticism of him or related

00:03:02.700 to him or anything he does is anti-Semitic, according to the media. Now, needless to say, this rule is not

00:03:09.580 applied equally across the board. No rule ever is. Because if it was, then any criticism of, say, Ben Shapiro

00:03:16.120 or his company, The Daily Wire, or even the beloved children's authors and his employee would also be

00:03:21.700 anti-Semitic. But Shapiro doesn't count for whatever reason, perhaps because he actually practices Judaism,

00:03:26.540 whereas Soros is a secular atheist. But in any case, the latest Soros creature to be elected to

00:03:32.920 the district attorney's office of a major city is Alvin Bragg. He's the new DA of Manhattan.

00:03:39.240 And in a memo released to his staff earlier this week, Bragg made it clear that, you know, he's been

00:03:44.920 watching all the ways that his fellow Soros goblins have destroyed their respective cities. And he's 1.00

00:03:50.780 concerned that the work is not being done quickly enough. And that's why Bragg, according to the memo,

00:03:56.540 will be stepping back from prosecuting crime, almost all crime, including violent crime.

00:04:03.280 Now, New York is one of the cities that's experienced a crime surge, especially in violent

00:04:07.560 crime, with 485 murders committed in the city in 2021. That's a jump of well over 50 percent over

00:04:14.300 the murder rate just two years ago. But Bragg says that those are rookie numbers. We got to pump them

00:04:19.920 up. And here's how he plans to do it, as reported by the New York Post. Listen to this.

00:04:23.840 In his first memo to staff on Monday, Alvin Bragg said that his office will not seek a carceral

00:04:29.200 sentence that is a prison sentence, except with homicides and a handful of other cases,

00:04:34.020 including domestic violence, felonies, some sex crimes and public corruption. Quote,

00:04:39.320 this rule may be accepted only in extraordinary circumstances based on a holistic analysis of the

00:04:44.060 facts, criminal history, victims input, especially in cases of violence or trauma and any other

00:04:50.460 information available. The memo reads, assistant district attorneys must also now keep in mind

00:04:55.460 the, quote, impacts of incarceration, including whether it really does increase public safety,

00:05:01.060 potential future barriers to convicts include involving housing and employment

00:05:04.820 and the financial cost of prison and also the racial disparities over who gets time,

00:05:10.460 Bragg instructed. Well, at least they'll still be seeking prison time for some sex crimes,

00:05:16.360 only some, you know, just the bad ones, I guess. So far, this all sounds relatively in line with the

00:05:23.200 brand of lunacy we've grown accustomed to over the last few years, but it gets worse from the post.

00:05:28.900 It says, Bragg's memo also detailed the following instructions for prosecutors to reduce charges

00:05:34.940 filed by cops in various cases. Armed robbers who use guns or other deadly weapons to stick up stores

00:05:41.740 and other businesses will be prosecuted only for petty larceny, a misdemeanor provided no victims

00:05:47.800 were seriously injured and there's no, quote, genuine risk of physical harm to anyone. Armed robbery,

00:05:54.380 a class B felony would typically be punishable by a maximum of 25 years in prison, while petty larceny

00:05:59.780 subjects offenders to up to 364 days in jail and a $1,000 fine. So you heard that right. Armed robbery

00:06:08.500 is a misdemeanor in New York now. No prison time. The memo goes on to explain that, of course,

00:06:15.380 such trivial crimes as burglary and drug dealing will also be effectively ignored. But the inclusion

00:06:21.180 of armed robbery takes this to a to a new level. The rationale seems to be that armed robbery does

00:06:27.620 not necessarily create a, quote, genuine risk of physical harm. Now, silly me, I would have thought

00:06:33.860 that there's always a genuine risk of physical harm when somebody points a gun at your face. 0.51

00:06:40.240 But that's not what a risk of physical harm looks like, apparently. You know, a guy who walks to his

00:06:44.180 table at Olive Garden without a mask on. Now there's someone who's creating a risk of physical harm.

00:06:50.420 But if you were to merely take out a firearm pointed in the direction of somebody's skull

00:06:54.560 and politely request that the contents of the person's wallet be emptied into the bag he's holding,

00:06:59.180 well, there's no reason to overreact to that. After all, what is it that armed robbers almost

00:07:04.500 always say, at least in the movies? They always say, well, give me your money and you won't get

00:07:08.200 hurt. Do as I say and you won't get hurt. So really, if you do become physically harmed during

00:07:14.460 the course of an armed robbery, it's actually your fault. You should have just done as you were told.

00:07:19.500 I mean, he said, do what you're told and you won't get hurt. I wish that everything that I'm saying

00:07:24.620 right now was a joke, but it's not. Here is, I think, one important point to take away from all

00:07:30.280 this. As much as the people behind these policies talk about systemic racism and the impact of

00:07:38.160 incarceration and rehabilitation, all the rest of it, none of that has anything to do with the

00:07:43.920 policies themselves. It is not an overabundance of compassion that drives this. This is not a case

00:07:51.820 of misplaced sympathies. The bleeding heart liberal stereotype was never accurate and certainly isn't

00:07:58.460 today. I'll tell you what actually drives this. Actually, it's two things. Both are cynical and

00:08:04.340 calculated. One is more politically practical than the other. So the first is simply that this is an

00:08:09.720 attempt to solve the crime problem on paper through reclassification. Because if you stop treating

00:08:15.540 crime as crime, then the crime goes away. It's like magic. Sure, there are just as many people

00:08:21.960 selling drugs and robbing liquor stores. In fact, quite a bit more people now because you're not

00:08:25.440 prosecuting it. But that's only technically a crime problem if you call it a crime. Stop calling it a

00:08:31.820 crime and the crime goes away. Leftist political leaders and DAs are, to some extent, sort of adopting

00:08:38.420 the rationalization of a cuckolded husband who solves the problem of his wife cheating on him

00:08:44.440 by deciding that, well, actually we're in an open marriage. See, it isn't adultery if he approves of

00:08:50.520 it, he thinks. We'll just take this thing and we'll recategorize it and problem solved.

00:08:58.660 Just as crime isn't crime if the people in charge of prosecuting it are giving it the thumbs up.

00:09:03.560 That's the practical and the political motivation. But I think at a deeper level,

00:09:09.940 there's something else going on. This is, at bottom, nothing less than an attempt to overturn

00:09:16.420 human society, to flip the moral order on its head. The anarchy in the streets is all a part of

00:09:24.460 the plan, part of the design. The refusal to prosecute or punish violent criminals who prey upon the weak

00:09:31.600 and vulnerable is a direct affront to civilization itself. Because it flies in the face of every

00:09:38.720 value we hold dear as human beings. It is anti-human. It's anti-civilization. It's anti-moral,

00:09:46.960 amoral. There's the real plan. To tear everything down. Leftism is inherently destructive. It's the only

00:09:55.360 thing it knows how to do. Tear everything down. And then build something new, something hideous

00:10:02.520 from the wreckage. That's the objective. Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:11:22.000 by the way, if you live, you know, around where we live here in Tennessee. They're calling for

00:11:27.860 another big winter blast tomorrow. And what they're saying is it could be a little bit of ice and then

00:11:33.760 maybe one or two inches of snow. And, you know, maybe even up to three inches of snow. But the thing

00:11:39.640 is, from what I learned last year, living in the South for the first time through my first winter in

00:11:45.620 the South is what I've learned, is that you really do have to treat that as the apocalypse because

00:11:50.180 that's how people respond to it. I don't know what it is around here, but the moment one flake of snow

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00:12:04.400 just immediately turn their wheels and run into the nearest guardrail. I don't know why.

00:12:09.460 Total panic ensues. And the roads are not usable. And the funny thing is that everybody around here

00:12:17.360 drives pickup trucks. But then as soon as the weather conditions actually call for a vehicle

00:12:24.300 of that type, like now it's game time. You have this pickup truck. I have one too. And as soon as

00:12:32.060 the weather, it's like, this is what you have this vehicle for. But everybody freaks out and panics.

00:12:39.460 Um, and, uh, so you gotta, you gotta prepare yourself. I was talking to my wife about this

00:12:43.340 earlier today and, uh, she was saying, well, do we know, do we need to go get salt or whatever?

00:12:49.100 And I said, don't worry about that. The main thing we need are, are sleds. You've got to make sure we

00:12:53.540 have sleds, you know, for the kids. And she said, well, we're good. We have four sleds, you know,

00:12:58.520 one for each kid. And I said, well, what about me? So she's running out right now to get me a sled as

00:13:05.840 well. Um, my wife, she keeps, keeps, keeps trying to convince me as an adult that like, well, why

00:13:11.300 don't we take up skiing or some sort of adult hobby? I don't do that. I, but I do like to sled

00:13:15.260 just give me one of those cheap $5 saucer things and I'll get on that. And I'll, I'll be out playing

00:13:21.000 in the snow for an hour after my kids go in. All right, let's start with this. Uh, Biden addressed

00:13:27.260 the nation about, uh, the Omnicorn again yesterday. And he of course blatantly lied over and over again.

00:13:34.100 I think this was the most egregious lie that they're sticking with, even though everybody

00:13:39.020 knows that this is not true. It's a hundred percent clear that it's not true, but he says

00:13:43.480 this, this is still a pandemic of the unvaccinated. Listen, we have in hand all the vaccines we need

00:13:51.580 to get every American fully vaccinated, including the booster shot. So there's no excuse, no excuse

00:13:59.300 for anyone being unvaccinated. This continues to be a pandemic of the unvaccinated. So we

00:14:06.200 got to make more progress. And for patients who still haven't gotten your kids vaccinated,

00:14:11.660 please get them vaccinated. Look out for their interest here. It's the best way to protect

00:14:17.080 them. And for parents with kids too young to be vaccinated, surround your kids with people

00:14:24.040 who are vaccinated and make sure you're masking in public. So you don't get COVID and give it to

00:14:30.820 your kids. Surround your kids with people who are vaccinated. Like, uh, I guess like a force field, 0.99

00:14:36.580 um, you know, you know, and actually the, the healthiest thing for your kid, in fact,

00:14:42.360 is, um, for them to have a bunch of other kids around them that they can play with and socialize with,

00:14:48.420 uh, not, not to, not to be surrounded by an army of force field of vaccinated people.

00:14:54.700 But what he's saying here is of course, completely wrong. Um, and, and he knows it too.

00:15:02.740 And everybody knows it, but this is, this is what they do. They just stick, come up with a lie

00:15:07.900 and stick with it and keep saying it and keep saying it until you break down people's defenses

00:15:11.840 and, um, kind of, you have your own sort of breakthrough case and then people start believing

00:15:17.120 what they, what they originally knew was a lie. Everybody is getting COVID, especially Omnicorn.

00:15:26.480 I know that this is, this is anecdotal, but everybody, this is all anyone, anyone has done

00:15:30.880 this entire time is talking about their anecdotal experiences. So I'll tell you about my anecdotal

00:15:34.400 experience, which I think is a little bit beyond anecdotal because this, when you, when you look

00:15:38.280 at the data, it appears to line up with data. So in, in my anecdotal experience over the last two

00:15:43.640 weeks, um, almost like everyone I know has gotten COVID and we can assume that it's Omnicorn

00:15:50.120 because that's the dominant trance that everybody's getting. And it's so contagious that, you know,

00:15:53.520 if you just walk by someone, you're probably going to get it, uh, apparently. And it's, and it's fine

00:15:57.780 because it's, it's mild and it's a cold, but, um, everyone around me is getting it. And in my family,

00:16:04.220 we'd all been feeling, you know, kind of, kind of special because up to this point, none of us had

00:16:08.680 ever gotten in my immediate family and also in the extended family, no one had gotten sick over two

00:16:13.960 years and then everyone gets it. But what I can also tell you is that I got a pretty good mix in

00:16:18.200 my family of people who are, uh, vaccinated and unvaccinated, not boosted. I don't know. I actually

00:16:25.520 do not know a single person who's gotten the booster shot, but we've got vaccinated, unvaccinated

00:16:30.540 people. And, um, everyone's experience with Omnicorn was almost exactly the same, regardless

00:16:38.620 of vaccination status. I'm not saying that's going to be the case for everybody on YouTube. I'm just

00:16:44.700 telling you what my experience was. Everyone's encounter with Omnicorn was exactly the same.

00:16:52.340 You know, feel like you're coming down with something mildly to moderately sick.

00:16:57.620 For me, it was a little bit, it was worse than a mild, I wouldn't call it a mild cold. I call

00:17:01.900 it like a moderate cold for a couple of days. And then you start getting better and you're fine.

00:17:07.560 And I look at my own family, people I know it's it. And you, if you were to, to, to look at their

00:17:13.760 experience with COVID, you wouldn't be able to guess based on that, whether they're vaccinated or not.

00:17:20.400 And then when you take a look at the data that appears to line up, everybody's getting it and

00:17:28.580 it's mild for everybody. But then what you all, of course, what you always hear. So it's a self

00:17:32.960 fulfilling prophecy because every day, you know, we hear from another person in media or politician

00:17:39.320 or some prominent person who says, yeah, I'm, I'm, I got, I've just diagnosed positive for COVID.

00:17:44.400 But then what do they always tell you? They say, I'm, I'm vaxxed and, and boosted. And thank God,

00:17:50.880 because if I wasn't, it would be way worse. Well, how do you know that? Maybe it would have been

00:17:58.560 significantly worse if you didn't have your three shots or your four shots or whatever. But how do

00:18:04.220 you know that? That's not based on anything other than your own assumption, your own hope.

00:18:11.340 And it's very good reason to think that it would not have been significantly worse

00:18:17.560 if you weren't vaccinated, because especially with this variant, it's mild for almost everybody.

00:18:26.040 And if you're not in a high risk group and you're, you know, relatively healthy and you're not,

00:18:32.420 you're not morbidly obese.

00:18:33.580 Most likely this was going to be a mild to moderate situation regardless.

00:18:43.000 All right. We've got one more clip from Biden. Some more, more encouraging words for those of us

00:18:49.260 who are not vaccinated. He says, again, this is going to be a winter of sickness and death for you.

00:18:55.480 Listen, and by the way, we have booster shots for the whole nation. Okay. We can, you can still get

00:19:03.720 COVID, but it's highly unlikely, very unlikely that you become seriously ill. And we're seeing COVID-19

00:19:11.320 cases among vaccinated in workplaces across America, including here at the White House. But

00:19:16.200 if you're vaccinated and boosted, you are highly protected. You know, be concerned about Omicron,

00:19:25.140 but don't be alarmed. But if you're unvaccinated, you have some reason to be alarmed. Many of you will,

00:19:32.040 you know, you'll experience severe illness in many cases if you get COVID-19, if you're not vaccinated.

00:19:38.700 Some will die, needlessly die.

00:19:44.280 Be concerned, but not alarmed, unless you're not vaccinated, in which case you're going to die.

00:19:52.320 But which is it? He just said that the pandemic, this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated. And then he

00:19:59.280 follows that up by saying, no, I mean, everyone's, everyone's getting it, even if they're vaccinated,

00:20:03.760 even here in the White House. Well, then you just say it's a pandemic of the unvaccinated. Which is it? 0.68

00:20:08.700 Are we all in this together or not? Because it seems like whether we like it or not, we are.

00:20:17.980 At least in terms of being susceptible to contracting COVID.

00:20:22.320 All right. In keeping with the theme of the week, the media are discovering truths about COVID that

00:20:27.360 many of us have known and have been shouting from the rooftops, or maybe shouting at a brick wall,

00:20:33.900 it felt like, for nearly three years now. David Leonhardt over at the New York Times has a piece

00:20:39.480 titled, No Way to Grow Up. For the past two years, Americans have accepted more harm to children in

00:20:46.080 exchange for less harm to adults. And it's a good piece, and I recommend reading it.

00:20:53.840 It also sounds like someone I know, someone in, someone in this very room, in fact, room I'm sitting

00:21:01.640 in right now, has been saying for years that the worst thing about our COVID policies, as they pertain

00:21:07.440 to children, is that all of it is being done not to protect kids, but to protect adults.

00:21:15.260 The New York Times has discovered this three years later. But if you've been listening to this show,

00:21:20.240 you've heard it almost every day for three years. Because that has always been apparent.

00:21:27.940 And it's been grotesque from the beginning.

00:21:33.500 You know, it's one thing. I would have a lot more tolerance. I have a lot more tolerance and patience

00:21:38.260 for people who go overboard in trying to protect their kids.

00:21:44.820 I understand that instinct as a parent. We're all guilty of it to some extent.

00:21:50.240 You know, there are at least going to be certain areas in life, certain areas that play on your

00:21:58.620 own special anxieties as a parent, where you give your children, where you're much more restrictive

00:22:03.480 of your children than you need to be, but just because you're worried about them.

00:22:07.820 Even if the fear is mostly irrational.

00:22:09.980 So I get that. And you know something? If this was, first of all, if this was a virus that specially

00:22:19.000 affected children, if it attacked and victimized children in the way that it attacks and victimizes

00:22:26.760 elderly people and morbidly obese, then probably my opinion about our response to it would have been 0.83

00:22:34.220 totally different. In fact, I probably would have been sitting here saying, let's shut society down

00:22:39.960 for the sake of the kids. Because at that point, for the sake of protecting kids who cannot protect

00:22:46.300 themselves, and as society, I believe that should be our number one priority, is to protect the next

00:22:52.660 generation. As parents, for our own kids, that's our number one job. And so then you start thinking,

00:23:00.900 well, like any sacrifice I have to make is worth it. But that wasn't the case. Thank God.

00:23:09.680 But even if, you know, if COVID was a little bit more dangerous to kids, and so we saw many of these

00:23:16.740 policies being put in place out of a concern for the kids themselves, I wouldn't have agreed with it.

00:23:25.920 Trying to do remote learning for three years, which is impossible for kids.

00:23:30.900 Because they're not going to learn that way. You can't put a six-year-old in front of a computer

00:23:35.300 screen for six hours a day and expect them to learn anything. So I wouldn't have agreed with it,

00:23:39.960 but I would have been more sympathetic to it. But that's not what's happening.

00:23:47.920 We're doing all of this to protect the adults. That's always been the case.

00:23:51.820 When you see all of the videos of, you know, three-year-old kids on airplanes

00:23:59.700 who are being yelled at to put masks on, and that eventually kicked off the plane 0.99

00:24:05.560 while they're crying and confused, because they don't want to wear this stupid thing on their face. 0.99

00:24:10.780 It's impossible to make a kid that young wear anything above their neck. 0.99

00:24:19.280 And when you see all of that, these are not, and you see the adults kicking a kid off the plane,

00:24:25.100 they're not doing it out of a desperate concern for the child's safety. They're doing it out of

00:24:29.220 a desperate and selfish concern for their own safety, and not even their own safety. It's not

00:24:33.740 even that they're protecting themselves. That would be bad enough. But they're not protecting

00:24:37.960 themselves physically, because that child presents almost no threat to them physically.

00:24:44.220 It's about protecting the adults' feelings, their sense of security. It's about making them

00:24:51.200 feel better. So we're going to ruin kids' lives. We're going to ruin their social and emotional and

00:24:59.200 psychological development, keep them isolated, deprive them of a real education. Not that they get much

00:25:06.200 of a real education in school anyway. Put masks on them. Do all of this. Scare them to death

00:25:11.800 so that we can feel better. Feel better. So that's a speech. I'm now rehearsing the speech 0.92

00:25:21.900 you've heard 10,000 times. And now we're hearing it from the New York Times. So I want to read a

00:25:26.400 little bit of this, because it is actually worth reading, even if it's annoying that it took this

00:25:31.040 long to get to it. But there is a lot of useful information here. So here's what he writes in

00:25:35.920 part. He says, American children are starting 2022 in crisis. I have long been aware that the

00:25:41.020 pandemic was upending children's lives. But until I spent time pulling together data and reading

00:25:44.940 reports, I did not understand just how alarming the situation had become. Well, you might have

00:25:50.020 understood, David, if you'd listened to us when we were trying to tell you.

00:25:52.920 Um, for the past, you know, 36 months or whatever. Children, and then it goes into what the, what the

00:26:01.240 exact toll is. Children fell far behind in school during the first year of the pandemic and have not

00:26:05.380 caught up. Among third through eighth graders, math and reading levels were all lower than normal

00:26:10.360 this fall. According to the NWEA, a research group, um, not to be confused with the NWEA. The shortfalls

00:26:18.700 were largest to black and Hispanic students, as well as students in schools with high poverty rates.

00:26:23.780 Michael Petrilli of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute says, we haven't seen this kind of academic

00:26:28.940 achievement crisis in living memory. Many children and teenagers are experiencing, uh, mental health

00:26:34.080 problems aggravated by the isolation and disruption of the pandemic. Three medical groups, including the

00:26:38.580 American Academy of Pediatrics, recently declared a national state of emergency in children's mental

00:26:43.420 health. They cited dramatic increases in emergency department visits for all mental health

00:26:48.500 emergencies. Suicide attempts have risen slightly, uh, have risen slightly among adolescent boys and

00:26:53.780 sharply among adolescent girls. The number of ER visits for suspected suicide attempts by 12 to 17

00:26:59.720 year old girls rose by 51% from early 2019 to early 2021. Why would it affect girls even more than

00:27:08.020 boys? I mean, it's affecting both groups, but girls are also more relational by nature. Um, and so they're

00:27:17.300 going to naturally be more affected when you take those relationships away from them. I think that's

00:27:22.340 probably the reason. Gun violence against children has increased as part of a broader nationwide rise

00:27:27.460 in crime. In Chicago, for example, 101 residents under age 20 were murdered last year. Um, and then, um,

00:27:36.320 goes on with some of the more, some more academic problems and then, and then so on. So children are

00:27:41.340 being the victims of, uh, the victims of the victims of violence more than ever suicide attempts. I'm a 51% increase in

00:27:48.220 suicide attempts is it's staggering, catastrophic. Um, and, uh, victims of violence from other people. All of this is

00:27:59.840 happening. Now, leaving aside again, the fact that, that, that we've all been saying this, or many of us have been saying

00:28:09.340 this for a long time, the other problem is that even in these, these articles where members of the media

00:28:14.340 are seeming to finally confront what we've done to kids, it's still not a full confrontation.

00:28:21.200 There's still an ignoring huge pieces of the puzzle. Like for example, he's still not confronting

00:28:28.580 the fact that, um, masking, you know, the psychological toll of forcing kids to wear masks for three years.

00:28:39.340 He's not talking about that. That's a, that's a big part of this, especially again, when we talk

00:28:46.080 about the psychological effects that this has had. No generation in the history of the world has ever

00:28:55.900 had had this. I mean, there are some kids today who are six years old or seven years old, and they

00:29:06.440 don't remember a time when they didn't have to wear a mask when they left their house.

00:29:12.880 That's there. There has never been a generation of kids that's experienced that.

00:29:18.640 Sure. There have been kids who had various points have had to wear medical masks,

00:29:22.180 but as a lifestyle, as an everyday, all day thing for years on end. No.

00:29:29.580 Um, but the media is still not that that's, that is one line that the media is not ready

00:29:36.060 to cross. In fact, as far as that goes, as far as masking kids goes, it's only getting worse.

00:29:40.180 Here's a today show segment from yesterday advocating now N95s for kids. 0.66

00:29:45.000 So they go all the way over your head, not the most comfortable, but very, very snug. Not a lot

00:29:52.100 of air is getting in between the sides of my cheeks or the tops of my cheeks.

00:29:55.760 Hey, hey, Vic, the kids are back in the classroom, at least the overwhelming majority of them.

00:30:00.760 Um, what's, what's the recommendation for our youngest learners?

00:30:03.620 Okay. So we talked to Dr. John Torres about this because I actually just sent my kids out the door

00:30:10.340 this morning minutes ago with two masks. He says, obviously the can 95 and 95 are the most effective,

00:30:16.280 but it can be really hard to find them in small kid sizes and also to keep them on your kids all day.

00:30:21.600 They're not the most comfortable. So the second best option is to make sure you have a kid size

00:30:26.700 surgical mask. And by the way, look at what a difference the kid size mask is from the adult size.

00:30:32.060 So you really want to make sure you have one that fits your child's face and you want to layer

00:30:36.540 the cloth mask over that mask. So the surgical mask goes on first and then the cloth mask.

00:30:42.600 If you can't do that surgical mask alone, Dr. Torres says least best, but better than nothing.

00:30:48.500 The two layer cotton mask that fits your child. The best mask certainly is the one that your child

00:30:52.600 will wear and keep on the whole day when they're in the classroom.

00:30:56.120 Yeah, put the N95 because as she says, no air is getting in.

00:30:59.720 And that's, that's great for kids, right? I mean, who, who needs to breathe air?

00:31:06.480 It's a good thing. Our kids are all, um, you know, Marine creatures. They're all, 0.98

00:31:10.740 they're all deep sea creatures. They don't need to breathe air.

00:31:15.700 I've got a better recommendation for all your masks is you take all, she's got all the examples

00:31:19.320 of the different masks there. So here's my, here's my, uh, personal recommendation. You take those

00:31:24.340 masks, um, along with, like we talked about yesterday, along with the tests that you have,

00:31:28.680 you've been hoarding, you take all of that and, uh, throw it in the garbage and stop abusing your 0.98

00:31:34.940 children. You psychopaths. All right. We are now one day away from the sacred anniversary of January 1.00

00:31:42.360 6th. Hopefully you've, you've thought about what you will do to commemorate the day. Um, I can tell

00:31:47.640 you, I've talked about this with my wife a little bit, but, uh, it, and I think what we're going to

00:31:51.600 be doing is we're going to rise early in the morning and then we're going to sit, um, around

00:31:56.580 on, on, on the floor and what we call a cry circle. And you know what a cry circle is. Every

00:32:01.500 family, you guys do this where we sit in a circle. We just cry silently for two hours, um, fully

00:32:06.360 masked, obviously. And then we're going to take turns reciting our favorite passages from, uh,

00:32:12.340 Amanda Gorman poems or from AOC's Instagram live transcripts. You could do either one.

00:32:17.940 And then obviously we'll sacrifice a goat to our idol of St. George Floyd. Um, that's

00:32:23.580 kind of our own tradition, but each family has their own. Um, the New York times and the

00:32:29.240 media, of course, they've got their traditions for January 6th. They have yet another January

00:32:32.800 6th reflection piece. This one titled the Capitol police and the scars of January 6th. For many

00:32:39.380 officers, their bodies, minds, and lives will never be the same after the attack. You read

00:32:46.320 that and you think, well, will we ever see an article like that about the officers who

00:32:49.920 suffered through the BLM riots, for example? What about their bodies and minds and lives?

00:32:58.620 And the thing about the officers who were in the BLM riots is that, uh, not only were those

00:33:02.640 riots far more violent and far more dangerous, but after the fact and during these officers did

00:33:11.140 not have the entire American media supporting them. So they had the, the insult to injury here where

00:33:20.960 they were being portrayed as the villains by the media, at least the Capitol police officers have,

00:33:27.580 you know, are, are being celebrated by the media. Maybe that'll help heal their, their wounds a little

00:33:34.400 bit. Uh, the, the other officers who dealt with BLM riots, quite the opposite. Here's, but all joking aside

00:33:44.000 for a second, when it comes to January 6th, here's what that was. If we need to reflect on it, which I don't

00:33:50.580 think we do because more than enough has been said, but here's what January 6th was in reality. It was very,

00:33:59.060 very stupid. Okay. The rioters were very stupid. They acted emotionally. They had no plan beyond that. 1.00

00:34:10.620 That's one of the ways that we know is that, know that this was not, this was not an insurrection.

00:34:14.900 There was no plan in place to overthrow the government. This was very stupid. These were emotional people 1.00

00:34:21.780 who were just acting out and doing whatever. And that's why you can, you can look at the, the ample

00:34:28.980 amount of security footage that we've seen from inside the Capitol. And what do you see? You see

00:34:34.220 all these people rush in and then once they get inside, they just kind of start moseying around

00:34:39.680 and then they eventually leave. And a couple of them take some souvenirs with them.

00:34:48.220 It's kind of like a dark night. The Joker talks about, he's like a car, a dog chasing a car. He

00:34:52.680 wouldn't know what to do once he catches it. So these rioters, they got into the Capitol building,

00:34:57.660 didn't know what to do once they got there because there was no plan, but it's very, very stupid 0.99

00:35:02.540 and counterproductive in the extreme, let's say, but they were not insurrectionists because again, 0.98

00:35:11.900 they never posed the slightest threat to our system of government. They were not going to overthrow the

00:35:19.240 government. How exactly was that going to work? I mean, for everybody in the media tells us our,

00:35:26.060 our system is on the, was on the brink. It was almost toppled over that day. How?

00:35:33.980 Even in your wildest fantasies, what could have happened that would have resulted in our

00:35:40.140 government being overthrown? Now, this is a very stupid event that has provided lots of ammunition 1.00

00:35:48.140 from the media. And that's all that really needs to be said about it. In a healthy country, 1.00

00:35:52.720 would have long since moved on by now, but the media and the government, the Democrat party,

00:35:58.000 they're not going to allow that to happen. January 6th gave them ammunition that they

00:36:03.940 will never stop using ever. And that's another one of the reasons why this was a very stupid thing. 1.00

00:36:10.600 All right. Uh, so I've had this in the, uh, on deck for a few days now, I got to finally mention it. 0.97

00:36:19.380 You've probably heard about it by now. This is from the daily wire. The most successful female

00:36:22.520 quote unquote ever to appear on Jeopardy is actually a biological male. Amy Schneider,

00:36:27.700 the show's first transgender contestant became the highest earning contestant who identifies as female

00:36:32.740 after winning for the 18th consecutive time last Friday. Um, I guess his winnings are probably higher

00:36:39.400 now, but Schneider has now won $706,000 on the game show with a chance to win more tonight.

00:36:45.680 Um, yeah, this was a few days old. I'm not sure if Amy Schneider is still kicking ass on Jeopardy or 0.80

00:36:50.980 not, but the, the highest earning woman in Jeopardy history is a man. Here's a good morning America 0.88

00:36:59.220 a few days ago, gushing over this whole story. We're going to turn to a story that's a little bit

00:37:04.460 more uplifting. Hopefully, uh, Jeopardy champion, Amy Schneider in a league of her own. Now this

00:37:09.520 morning, she won for the 21st straight time on Wednesday, the most by a woman just days after

00:37:14.880 taking the record for highest all time earnings for a woman earlier this near this year. Schneider,

00:37:20.400 she made history as the first transgender contestant to make the tournament of champions.

00:37:24.740 She still has a long way to go though, to catch host Ken Jennings and his 74 game winning streak,

00:37:30.840 but it has been fun to watch. She's well on her way. I just got one question. Who run the world?

00:37:36.300 Girls. There you go. 1.00

00:37:42.700 Do they though? Because the top female Jeopardy contestant is a man and the top female college 0.99

00:37:50.940 swimmer is a man. And the first female four-star admiral in the public health service is a man.

00:37:58.980 And some of the top female MMA fighters have been men. And some of the top female track, 0.71

00:38:08.440 high school track athletes have all been men. So do girls run the world? Girls don't even run 1.00

00:38:15.840 female track anymore. If it wasn't for the fact that our civilization was being fundamentally 1.00

00:38:28.960 deconstructed, you would, you would have to, you would have to laugh about this because the

00:38:33.220 patriarchy has won. You know, the patriarchy was, it was on the ropes a little bit for a few

00:38:38.500 decades really. And, uh, and then, and then they, they kind of, you know, regrouped and, and thought

00:38:45.540 about it and then realized that no, if the patriarchy is going to win, it has to be, it has to be,

00:38:52.520 this has to be infiltration. The patriarchy has infiltrated the female ranks and achieved ultimate 1.00

00:38:59.100 victory. It's kind of inspiring in a certain way. Let's get now to our, uh, comment section.

00:39:14.580 So Joshua says, usually I agree with you, Matt, on the over-diagnosis of mental disorders, but the

00:39:18.620 Antonio Brown case is different. I recommend you watch the film concussion. There's a trend of NFL

00:39:23.020 players acting irrationally and violently. This is seen in many contact sports where there's

00:39:27.540 consistent brain trauma, like boxing and football, but not in sports like basketball and baseball,

00:39:32.680 where there's little brain injury. CTE is a very real thing, but we can only tell if someone has

00:39:36.640 until after they die. It's very possible that Antonio Brown has CTE. And I think it's fair for his

00:39:40.660 possible mental health issues to be discussed. This case is different from a Simone Biles or Naomi

00:39:44.480 Osaka. Um, okay. Well, there's again, as I said yesterday, and I don't claim to be an expert on

00:39:53.840 this. I don't think you are either. Um, in fact, there's really, nobody is fully an expert on CTE

00:39:59.560 because it's very, very, it's, it's, it's mysterious right now. There's still a lot that

00:40:02.740 is not known about it and whether or not even the basic question of whether or not CTE is directly

00:40:10.380 caused by football injuries, that is far from confirmed. And then once you confirm that to,

00:40:18.760 to explain how a brain injury could cause behavior, um, that is also going to be very difficult to

00:40:26.880 explain. So there are a lot of unknown pieces. And yet with all of these unknowns, people who don't

00:40:33.700 know Antonio Brown have never looked at his brain. I've never looked at a brain scan, haven't been able

00:40:39.180 to open up his head and take a look at it. Because as you said, you can't do that until the person's

00:40:42.460 dead anyway. Yeah. You feel like you can sit back and, and diagnose him, not only diagnose him with

00:40:49.240 this condition, but directly link certain behaviors to that condition that you've, that you assume he

00:40:57.600 has. It's to me, it's so self-evidently absurd. It just seems like you're, you're trying desperately

00:41:05.240 to make excuses for this, for someone who's a total and has been his whole life. His whole career, he's

00:41:12.260 always been this way. And for some reasons, like you, you want to make excuses rather than what, why

00:41:19.720 don't we go when, when you're, when you have a situation and there are several different potential

00:41:25.840 competing explanations. Okay. It's Occam's razor. You go with the simplest explanation, the explanation

00:41:32.020 that requires the fewest number of assumptions. And to blame it on CTE requires an enormous array

00:41:39.740 of assumptions. Whereas you could just say, he's a jerk. He's an entitled jerk, like so many before 1.00

00:41:47.260 him, especially in sports. And that's it. Okay. Just Ray says, there's a testing center near where I 1.00

00:41:54.160 live and every day it's jam-packed with idiotic sheep, literally impeding traffic on a daily basis. 1.00

00:41:59.680 My Lord, I think I've seen some of the same cars parked days on end. Live your lives, people. 1.00

00:42:04.980 The only reason this has gone on three years is because you allow it to. Well, no, I mean, look,

00:42:08.760 you've got to wait in line for three hours to find out if you're sick or not. If you wake up with a

00:42:12.780 fever and a cough or something, you're not feeling well. Well, you know, I don't know. I could be sick,

00:42:17.500 but let me go wait in line for three hours to find out. You say sheep. Speaking of which,

00:42:20.780 I almost forgot this. I got to show you this. I mean, as, as you mentioned, you say that these are all

00:42:24.660 sheep. There's a, do we have this from, let's pull the tweet up from CBS. We don't have the tweet.

00:42:34.240 Okay. Well, some farmer, I think it was a farmer in Scotland. I'm just going to assume,

00:42:37.820 you know, making, making a prejudicial assumptions here. I think it's a farmer in Scotland. He wants,

00:42:45.060 I think wants to send a pro vaccine message. So he, can we play this? He got all his sheep

00:42:51.620 together and he had them. And he, I guess he lured them into place with food. He had them all form

00:43:01.300 the shape of a syringe. And this is supposed to be a pro vaccine message. Sheep forming the shape

00:43:09.260 of a syringe. I don't think that sends the message you want it to. It does send a powerful message,

00:43:15.560 perhaps a true one, but not the one you want. All right, let's go back to the comments.

00:43:19.040 Um, thin blue, thin blue pines says a hundred percent. That earring note was planted. You

00:43:26.700 have a daughter mastermind on your hands. I suffer from the same empathetic response to my kiddos

00:43:31.120 silently bummed out about being told no. Uh, yeah, she, I know that my, my daughters has figured these

00:43:39.140 things out. Fortunately, my sons have not. My daughters figured out some of the manipulation

00:43:44.320 techniques. Um, my sons are a little bit slower on the uptake when it comes to those things. I think

00:43:49.300 that's pretty, pretty common with, with boys. And so they still think if they want something from me,

00:43:54.520 they'll just, they'll just whine or yell or whatever. And it's, it's not doing it, fellas,

00:43:58.960 not going to do it. Um, let's see. Sam says, I have to say, well, I don't like the Spider-Man movies

00:44:07.600 plot, which was riddled with plot holes. I don't think you can properly judge an MCU movie. If you

00:44:12.420 have, if you've only seen one, if you want to be a critic of it, find time to actually watch more of

00:44:17.160 the movies, try to understand the broader story. If you haven't seen Dr. Strange's movies, why should

00:44:21.800 you be able to condemn his character? Because it's a very stupid character. That's why, that's how I 1.00

00:44:25.980 can condemn it. And it seems like you haven't seen Spider-Man two, the original, because you had,

00:44:30.900 uh, if you had, you might understand how Doc Ock turned good. Really? I would have understood that.

00:44:36.060 So the kid in a, in a laboratory take some scrap metal and a couple of, uh, you know,

00:44:40.800 like a couple of spoons or whatever, and just ties it all together, puts it on the back of his head

00:44:46.360 and he, and he turns good magically. I would have understood that. Um, again, spoilers on this movie,

00:44:54.500 but I just want to highlight, I've given you the warning for this, the Spider-Man movie that

00:44:59.380 everybody's raving about what they do in this film. I was actually, I was expecting it to be bad

00:45:04.660 because all of the Marvel movies are bad. All of them. There has not been a good one.

00:45:08.280 Um, they're not just bad, but they're all an affront to cinema. They are anti-cinema,

00:45:13.640 but this was way worse than I, than I could have ever imagined it would be.

00:45:20.280 Like my, my worst nightmare, but worse than that, because what they did with this movie is that

00:45:25.540 you've got 20 years of Spider-Man villains and, uh, each movie, right? For the last 20 years has been

00:45:32.560 sent sometimes multiple movies centered around one of these villains.

00:45:35.340 And Spider-Man's fighting the villains and trying to defeat them. And then, and then finally at the

00:45:40.660 end, Spider-Man defeats the villain. And then we say, well, that's the, that's the end of that story.

00:45:43.660 Okay. And in this film, because they're just desperate for a story, they say, you know what,

00:45:49.940 let's bring all of those villains back and then have Spider-Man magically make them all

00:45:55.880 not bad anymore. You think, okay, two things. Number one, why didn't he do that to begin with?

00:46:01.960 If that's an option, if it's an option to just make some thing and put it on the guy's neck and

00:46:07.040 make him good, well, we could have, we could have avoided 20 years of bad movies. If you just done

00:46:11.500 that to begin with, but also you've completely erased all of the stories that came before it.

00:46:19.600 You just negated them, which those stories don't mean anything to me. But if I was a fan of Spider-Man,

00:46:26.140 because I'm a 12 year old boy, you're the only ones who should be fans of these movies. Uh,

00:46:30.820 I'd be pretty annoyed by that. And then, and then also one other thing, because we have to move on

00:46:37.500 this, this whole, the whole, the whole, uh, catalyst of the plot is that if I remember correctly,

00:46:44.020 because it's all pretty incomprehensible and incoherent, but, uh, a villain from a previous

00:46:48.780 movie who apparently could have just been turned good, uh, with a, with a couple of spoons and

00:46:54.980 toothpicks, but they never thought to do it. So the villain in the previous movie told the world

00:47:00.280 that, um, Peter Parker is Spider-Man and Peter Parker in this, and that was the end of the last

00:47:07.140 movie. This movie, Peter Parker is upset because it's making his life inconvenient that everyone

00:47:10.760 knows that he's Spider-Man. And so he goes to the wizard, this wizard guy, Benedict Cumberbatch guy,

00:47:16.040 and says, can, can you erase from the entire world's memory, the fact that I'm Spider-Man?

00:47:22.620 And then the wizard says, well, I can, but then I'm going to have to erase the memory of you as

00:47:27.260 Peter Parker. That's the only way that this magic spell works. And then things go wrong and haywire.

00:47:33.420 And then, and then, and then eventually at the end, he ends up erasing everyone's mind anyway.

00:47:37.320 But how about this instead? If this is an option, go to the wizard and have the wizard erase

00:47:44.760 everyone's memory of the bad guy who told people this information to begin with.

00:47:50.140 Why not erase their memory of him instead of you? Well, because that would end the movie in three

00:47:55.660 minutes. Okay. I think that's about enough of that. As you know, the daily wire has led the charge to

00:48:04.900 sue the Biden administration for his vaccine mandates. And now we're taking it all the way to

00:48:09.000 the Supreme court. This Friday, the Supreme court will convene to hear arguments on the legality and

00:48:12.860 constitutionality of the mandate, which means that this week is going to be huge in our fight against

00:48:17.480 medical tyranny. We have over 1 million signatures on our do not comply petition currently, but it's

00:48:22.640 vital that it increases before Friday. So help us send our message aloud and clear and head to

00:48:27.260 dailywire.com slash do not comply right now. We're counting on you to help us put a stop to this

00:48:32.460 absolutely disgusting and tyrannical federal overreach. Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:48:37.040 Today, we're going to be canceling Samantha Lux, who is a YouTuber and a quote trans woman. That 0.99

00:48:47.480 is a biological male with a YouTube channel, actually a quite popular channel with well over

00:48:51.680 600,000 subscribers. Somehow Sam has many videos promoting transgenderism and quite often responding 0.97

00:48:57.180 to perceived instances of transphobia. One of the most recent videos on the channel targets,

00:49:02.820 if you can believe it, none other than the leading LGBT children's author on the planet,

00:49:07.880 yours truly. Sam stumbled across my children's book, Johnny the Walrus, which is still available

00:49:12.340 for pre-order over at johnnythewalrus.com, by the way, and does not approve. Specifically,

00:49:18.020 my video where I read the book to a group of children has provoked Sam's ire in a video titled

00:49:23.480 Transphobes Are Writing Children's Books, Trans Girl Reacts. This is good. You know, I am sincerely

00:49:30.740 interested to hear how a trans girl, quote unquote, reacts to Johnny the Walrus. Perhaps

00:49:35.420 this will be a point-by-point rebuttal. Perhaps evidence and science and logic and bulletproof

00:49:39.780 moral arguments will all be marshaled. And by the end of the video, I will have completely

00:49:44.460 changed my mind, realized the error in my ways, repented of my anti-trans beliefs.

00:49:50.880 Maybe even because of this video that we'll watch together, I will become trans myself.

00:49:55.060 It's possible. So let's watch some of this and see what our friend Samantha Lux brings

00:50:00.520 to the table. Now, if you're familiar with the content that I create here on my channel,

00:50:04.960 if you're familiar with the arguments that conservatives love to make about trans people,

00:50:09.140 you would be familiar with transphobes' claim that we are indoctrinating their children,

00:50:13.300 that we're making their children gay, that we're forcing their young tomboy daughter to 1.00

00:50:17.240 become a boy. That's not me. Who, me? Who, me? I would never. I love you trans girl. I love 0.97

00:50:23.700 your tomboy daughter. She is great. What I don't love is a hypocrite. Matt Walsh, if you are not

00:50:29.320 familiar with, is like an infamous transphobe on YouTube. This ho- posted a video one week ago 0.73

00:50:36.420 reading his book, Johnny the Walrus, to a bunch of little kids.

00:50:41.280 Okay, so we're off to a rough start here already. A few points. First, I do not believe, Sam,

00:50:47.180 that you are forcing any child to do anything or making any child do anything. I am accusing you

00:50:54.920 and your fellow propagandists of trying to heavily influence children with falsehoods,

00:51:00.900 distortion, lies, and other forms of insanity that they, the children, do not have the mental capacity

00:51:05.980 to sort through. So indoctrination does not often involve physical force because you cannot physically

00:51:12.940 force someone to believe something. Belief requires mental assent, not physical assent.

00:51:19.040 But you can coerce and trick people into believing things. And when they're children,

00:51:25.260 that's very easy to do, as you know from experience. Also, by the way, I appreciate being called infamous,

00:51:31.980 and I won't take any issue with that label. But I am not an infamous transphobe because I'm not a

00:51:37.000 transphobe at all. And when I say I'm not a transphobe, I'm not saying it to gain your approval or to

00:51:42.500 convince you that I'm not bigoted. Yeah, I couldn't give it less of a damn if you think that I'm bigoted or 0.94

00:51:47.160 not. I mean, it doesn't matter to me. I am instead concerned with definitions. And the definition of

00:51:51.920 phobia is irrational fear. I'm not afraid of trans people. If I was, I wouldn't spend so much of my

00:51:58.740 time saying things that I know will make you angry. My fear, and it is not irrational, is of the effect

00:52:05.860 that trans propaganda has on society, and especially on kids. Okay? So we have that clarified. Let's 0.62

00:52:12.440 continue. We're gonna have to skip around a little bit because Sam's video is long, and it seems like a

00:52:16.300 little too self-involved even for me to spend too much time reacting to somebody else reacting to

00:52:20.720 one of my videos. But we'll watch enough to get the gist and to discover whether Sam will be able

00:52:25.020 to make any arguments that will disprove or undermine my central points. Let's keep going.

00:52:30.340 All right. Do you understand the comparison that's going to be happening here? He's like,

00:52:33.560 this book is about a little boy who thinks he's a walrus, and his mom, you know, also is convinced

00:52:38.640 that he's a real walrus. Do you get the correlation? It's going to be about a little boy that thinks

00:52:42.520 he's a girl or something, and the mom is convinced that he's a real girl. How creative. How did you

00:52:47.200 ever come up with such a creative, powerful analogy for children who don't understand what

00:52:52.400 you're talking about? Yeah, well, you're right. It's not creative. It's not creative at all. I mean,

00:52:58.000 the comparison between somebody identifying as a different sex and someone identifying as an animal

00:53:01.800 has been done a million times. I'm not the first to do it. South Park did it a decade ago. But the

00:53:06.840 problem is that nobody on your side has ever come up with anything approaching an effective response

00:53:11.740 to the analogy. You've never been able to explain why it's wrong. All you can do, all you ever do,

00:53:18.740 is just scoff that you've heard the point before. Well, we know you've heard it, and you're going to

00:53:23.000 keep hearing it over and over again until you answer it. All right, let's continue.

00:53:28.860 What is this thing doing all the hell?

00:53:31.660 We don't have to worry about that. We're going to read the book now.

00:53:33.520 This man has never met a kid in his whole life. Never interacted with one child. He's like,

00:53:38.320 I don't give a shit. Sit down. We're going to read the book. I'm here for half an hour, 1.00

00:53:41.840 and then I got to go. So sit down so I can film. Okay? Thank you, brat.

00:53:46.820 No, I think the problem is that you've never been around a dad before, which maybe I would

00:53:51.520 have already guessed. I'm around kids all the time because I have four of them. But I have by now

00:53:56.780 developed a critical case of dad syndrome. And that means that I'm just snapping my fingers and I'm

00:54:01.480 keeping people on task. That's what I do. I'm dad. You should see me during chore time every night

00:54:06.100 in my house. You, get over there, pick up those shoes. You, come over, vacuum the rug. I don't 0.95

00:54:10.860 even remember anybody's names anymore. That's another symptom of dad syndrome. Okay, skipping ahead.

00:54:18.040 But Johnny's mom's phone said it's not just pretend. So she went on her phone and there were people

00:54:23.360 telling her that this isn't pretend. He's really a walrus. Only a bigot would say that. How dare you offend?

00:54:29.100 What's a bigot? Anybody know? Kids are, I don't even, I don't know how old these kids are. I'm not

00:54:33.800 good at estimating age, but they don't know what you're talking about. You don't see their face?

00:54:38.420 Did he run this past like an actual children's author and be like read it to a kid and see what

00:54:43.300 they thought before he published it? I think he just went for it. Of course they don't know what a

00:54:46.280 bigot is. They're four. I mean, it does make sense that he would go for children because you know,

00:54:52.480 they have the same capacity for intellectual thought as him. Like babe, if you're going to write a

00:54:56.100 children's book, write it for children, write it using words that they understand and that they

00:55:00.740 know and that you don't have to explain for them to understand what you're trying to say through your

00:55:04.980 book. First of all, don't call me babe. Second, did I run it by an actual children's author? Yes,

00:55:11.740 I ran it by myself. And when myself came to myself and said, self, what do you think of this children's

00:55:17.220 book idea? Myself responded, self, that's an exceptional idea. So I did get the go ahead from

00:55:22.340 an expert in the field of children's literature if that matters to you. Now, Sam also says that

00:55:26.820 some of these concepts are above a child's head. Yes, Sam, that's the point. Now you're getting it.

00:55:34.200 If a silly story about a kid transitioning into a walrus is inevitably too weird and abstract for

00:55:39.340 children, then what happens if we mix sex and gender into it? Does it suddenly become more appropriate 0.55

00:55:45.880 for children? If a child, as you say, isn't even old enough to understand what a bigot is or to hear

00:55:52.300 the word, then is he old enough to be introduced to a concept like transgenderism? If he can't

00:55:57.960 understand bigots, can he understand what it means for a boy to have a girl mystically trapped inside

00:56:02.160 him? If my book is above his head, what about a choice that will fundamentally change his life and

00:56:07.260 alter him physically and biologically forever? Is that above his head too? What do you think?

00:56:12.060 Connect the dots, Sam. You can do it. You'll need to eat worms and to put on gray makeup.

00:56:22.060 The worms give you whiskers. The gray blends you in, the doctor says. And a simple procedure

00:56:28.340 cuts feet into fins. The doctor wants to cut into Johnny and make him into a walrus.

00:56:34.800 It's gross eating worms, mom. They're all so dang twitchy. He doesn't want to eat worms. 0.82

00:56:41.460 Our children's... You see what he's doing here? With the analogies that he's drawing,

00:56:45.220 he's arguing that parents are forcing their young children to take medications that they don't want

00:56:49.780 to take or to have surgeries that they don't want to take or to transition when they don't want to

00:56:53.380 transition. That's not what happens. You know, children have a say in the process. Children are allowed to

00:56:58.140 make their own decision. Of course, with the help of medical professionals. Of course,

00:57:02.340 of course. But like this whole part that Johnny's like, I don't want to eat worms.

00:57:05.320 That would be the end of it. That's the end of it. Johnny doesn't want to eat worms. No worms for

00:57:08.660 Johnny. No worms. I will say we got exactly the reaction to the doctor page with the bone saw that

00:57:15.160 I had in mind when we included that page. And I fought for that page. Now there was, I will tell

00:57:18.940 you a little bit behind the scenes, there was some discussion over here about that particular page

00:57:24.300 with the doctor with the bone saw chasing a child. And I fought for that. I said, that's got to be in

00:57:29.120 there. And it was. No, Sam, but you say children make their own decisions, but children can't make

00:57:35.220 their own decisions. If I'm arguing that a certain course of action is harmful for a child, bad for

00:57:41.620 them, damaging to them, it does no good to retort that the child wants to do it. Children who want

00:57:47.940 to do harmful things should still be prevented from doing those things. Why? Because they're children.

00:57:54.880 They don't understand what they're saying. They don't know what they want. And often they don't

00:57:59.620 actually want what they think they want. At Red Robin the other day, my five-year-old told me he

00:58:04.400 wanted to order salmon for his dinner. Now I knew damn well that that kid did not want salmon.

00:58:12.220 He wanted chicken tenders and fries because that's what he always wants. And it's the only thing he'll

00:58:15.880 ever actually eat at a restaurant. So I didn't let him have the meal that he wanted because I knew that

00:58:21.040 he didn't really want it because he's a kid. And that's just for something as frivolous as a meal

00:58:26.720 at Red Robin. What if your son says he wants to become a girl or a salmon for that matter? Not only

00:58:33.820 can you be sure that he doesn't really want that because he doesn't understand what he's saying or

00:58:37.700 what it means or what the implications are because he can't because he's just a kid. But also in this

00:58:41.800 case, whereas it's at least possible to actually order salmon, it's not possible for him to actually

00:58:46.560 become a girl, which is reason enough to not give him what he says he wants. All right, let's skip

00:58:52.760 ahead again and see if Sam saves the best rebuttals for the very end. What's the moral of the story?

00:58:59.300 What's the lesson here? Aren't children's books supposed to have like a lesson that's, you know,

00:59:03.440 clear? Because I don't know what this is trying to say. I don't know what this lesson here is.

00:59:08.460 The other lesson is don't listen to the creepy people in your phone. Don't trust medical professionals.

00:59:12.420 Walruses are mean? Like, oh my goodness. Maybe take a writing class or something. Ask a kid, 0.99

00:59:18.360 like, do you know what this book is about? Because none of them did. Like, you could argue that this

00:59:22.460 book is made for adults. Write a book for adults. Write a book for adults. Or is it that you have to

00:59:28.220 dumb down these analogies and these arguments for children brain because they don't hold any weight

00:59:32.640 in actual adult language? But yeah, that is it for this video. What do you guys think? You're going to go get 0.53

00:59:37.980 Johnny the walrus, the book. Well, since you asked, what do I think? I think you should probably in the

00:59:46.860 future have some kind of rebuttal if you're going to make a rebuttal video. You rebutted my points in

00:59:51.940 the same way that my dog rebuts the deer that he sees running through the backyard by just barking

00:59:56.560 incoherently at them. Yeah, you're right that I did dumb down the arguments and analogies, but

01:00:01.880 apparently I wasn't able to make them dumb enough for you to understand. My story about a kid pretending to 0.94

01:00:06.920 be a walrus was, it would seem, slightly above your reading level. And that's a shame because

01:00:12.220 it's a message that you might have really benefited from. And instead, I'm forced to say, finally,

01:00:17.500 Samantha Lux, that you are sadly, tragically, canceled. But everybody else can buy my book,

01:00:23.720 Johnny the walrus, at johnnythewalrus.com. And we'll leave it there for today.

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