The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 867 - Why Multiple Personality Syndrome Is The Hottest New Fad

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, throwback edition, the hottest new trend on social media right now

00:00:04.300 is multiple personality disorder. Lots of people, especially kids, are pretending that they suffer

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00:02:17.100 Well, welcome to the show today. We're just at the beginning of what's supposed to be a major

00:02:21.480 winter storm here in Nashville. And by major winter storm, I mean like, you know, four or five inches

00:02:27.320 or something. But four or five inches counts as a major storm around these parts, especially because

00:02:32.560 of the apocalyptic panic that grips hold of everybody on the roadways as soon as one single

00:02:37.800 flake falls from the sky. The flake doesn't even have to fall from the sky, actually. I mean,

00:02:42.540 the drivers around here, if they see a flake of dandruff fall from their own heads while they're

00:02:48.100 driving, they'll still freak out and plunge right into the nearest ditch. What all that means is that

00:02:53.360 I can't get on the roads right now because I value my life. And so instead of going to my normal studio,

00:03:00.080 I am back in my original studio. I'm getting in touch with my roots today, back in the car,

00:03:06.620 talking to my dashboard once again, thoroughly confusing my neighbor who just walked out of his

00:03:11.640 house and was obviously confused about what's happening here. Now, I could have recorded in my

00:03:18.660 house, which I'm sitting right next to right now in the driveway. But the problem is that all four of

00:03:22.860 my kids are home right now. And the only way to keep them quiet for an hour would be to,

00:03:27.580 I don't know, lock them in some sort of soundproof box in the attic. But CPS generally frowns upon that

00:03:34.920 kind of parenting strategy. And so this is what we're doing. Also, it just felt right. It feels

00:03:39.800 right to be here again in the car. So we start with this. If a lab in China has proven to be a

00:03:48.480 factory for viral contagions in the world, then the internet, social media in particular, and especially

00:03:56.020 TikTok is a factory for a different kind of contagion, social contagion. Destructive and degrading and

00:04:03.660 behaviors and lifestyle choices, concepts, ideas can go from fringe to trendy to mainstream quite

00:04:11.220 literally overnight, right? What was unusual one minute might be ubiquitous the next. And people,

00:04:17.140 especially young people, can get caught in the current and drown before they even notice that

00:04:22.160 their shoes are wet. Here is perhaps the latest example and maybe the strangest. Also a very

00:04:29.720 instructive example. Over on TikTok, there is apparently an intense interest in multiple

00:04:35.620 personality disorder or DID, dissociative identity disorder is what they call it now. Hashtags related

00:04:42.760 to this topic have millions of entries. I mean, hundreds of millions of entries. That's how much interest

00:04:49.520 is. That's how popular it is. And many of them are from users claiming to have DID themselves.

00:04:55.140 The trend has grown large enough that even Good Morning America has noticed. And they did a report

00:05:00.020 on it a couple of days ago. Watch this. Now to the rise in teens on TikTok who are self-diagnosing

00:05:05.800 themselves with rare mental health disorders that they probably don't have after watching videos

00:05:10.520 on the social platform. It's a story we first saw in the Wall Street Journal. And Ariel Reshef joins us

00:05:15.320 with more on this. Ariel, good morning. Good morning to you, Mary. Yeah, those videos have been

00:05:21.200 viewed hundreds of millions of times. And while experts say this may be elevating a conversation

00:05:26.220 about mental health, self-diagnosis can be a dangerous, slippery slope.

00:05:32.180 DID typically occurs between the ages of six and nine.

00:05:35.320 This morning, experts warning about what they call a troubling trend on TikTok that could leave some

00:05:40.740 teens believing they have a serious mental disorder.

00:05:47.120 Posts with the hashtag disassociative identity disorder and borderline personality disorder

00:05:52.560 viewed hundreds of millions of times. Some of those videos listing possible signs to look out for

00:05:58.500 and encouraging viewers to self-evaluate.

00:06:01.620 Right. So now in these videos, and again, there are many of them,

00:06:05.740 the alleged multiple personality sufferer will usually refer to themselves as the system.

00:06:13.080 That's how these people refer to themselves. They are the system. And the system is the word they use

00:06:17.740 to describe the whole collective of personalities that they have in their heads. And then each

00:06:22.360 individual personality is called an altar. And they will then usually introduce each altar in their

00:06:28.600 videos, each personality, and sometimes put on a different voice for each one. But that requires a

00:06:33.540 certain amount of talent that most of these people don't have. And so most of the videos are kind

00:06:37.580 of like this one. Watch.

00:06:39.500 Hi, my name is Becca. I'm the host of the system.

00:06:42.680 Hi, I'm Bella. I don't really know what role I have in the system because I am a new alter.

00:06:48.980 So my name is Rosa. I am the caretaker of the system.

00:06:54.780 What's up? It's Jamie. I'm the primary protector of the system.

00:07:06.780 We took our meds a while ago, so I'm groggy.

00:07:10.920 Hi, my name is Vega. I am the sexual protector of the system.

00:07:16.440 Hey, I'm Kai. I am a trauma holder and gatekeeper for the system. I work very closely with another

00:07:22.260 alter, Nick, who is an internal caretaker. He does not really front.

00:07:28.960 So you see, that's how multiple personality disorder works, apparently. All of the personalities

00:07:34.500 are aware of each other and they work together. They hold meetings and conferences. They send

00:07:40.840 memos back and forth and emails and everything. This is what happens, I guess, when you have 14

00:07:45.620 personalities and they're all boring as hell. Though some members of the alleged DID community

00:07:50.480 on TikTok, they do try to keep things a little bit more interesting. So here's a guy whose

00:07:53.620 personalities are more antagonistic towards one another, which makes it more interesting. Watch.

00:07:59.900 Hey, everyone. It's Asher, the best alter.

00:08:02.000 This is day in the life of somebody that has dissociative identity disorder. Let's go.

00:08:06.760 Hi, everyone. It's Annie and I'm going to be in charge of cleaning today.

00:08:09.920 That means I'm going to be out. I'm going to be listening to my music and I get a nice couple

00:08:13.360 hours just to myself. This is really nice because I tried to get some time out yesterday and I

00:08:17.620 couldn't. And since I'm going to be out for a little bit, I changed into my clothes. This is my

00:08:21.920 necklace and this is a shirt somebody sent me. Hi, everybody. It's Alex. Annie got jalapeno in her eye

00:08:27.560 and then switched out immediately. So I had to switch in and now I'm having to deal with the pain.

00:08:31.480 So thank you, Annie. Hi, everybody. It's April. This is the before shot.

00:08:36.500 And this is an after shot. This is why I'm in control of what the body looks like. The boys

00:08:41.040 would make it look homeless. Now, the impression of DID that you get from videos like this is that

00:08:47.560 a person with this disorder has sort of a cohort of little gnomes or gremlins living in his skull,

00:08:53.920 driving him around, fighting for control of the steering wheel. And most of the videos are like

00:09:00.300 this. And they've been extremely effective in convincing other people on the site, mostly kids,

00:09:06.320 that they too can have multiple personalities. The problem, of course, there are a lot of problems.

00:09:12.080 One of them is that this is how split personalities work in movies and TV shows,

00:09:17.400 not in real life. There was a bestselling book called Sybil back in the 70s. I think they made a

00:09:22.160 movie about the book as well. And that's the one that first popularized this concept of multiple

00:09:28.200 personality disorder. Before that, it existed as a clinical concept, but it wasn't in the mainstream

00:09:34.400 the way that it is now. And in that book, the patient Sybil, real name Shirley Mason,

00:09:39.400 has a condition that works kind of like what you see in the TikTok videos, kind of like what you see

00:09:44.400 in the movies. What was an M. Night Shyamalan movie split where the guy has 15 different personalities

00:09:50.360 and some of them are serial killers and some of them aren't. And so Shirley Mason Sybil had something 0.98

00:09:56.160 sort of like that. Problem though, the book was based on a lie. The whole thing was a hoax. It was

00:10:01.160 a fraud. Even so, it's cemented into the minds of the American public and people this idea. And

00:10:09.560 people have been convincing themselves that they suffer from this fake version of the illness ever

00:10:14.120 since. Now, of course, I say fake version of the illness as if there's a real version.

00:10:18.580 I don't think there is. Now, this is very much a live debate in the psychiatric field right now.

00:10:25.700 Some so-called mental health experts will argue that DID exists, but it's very different from the

00:10:30.780 cinematic portrayals. And others will say that the whole thing is a category error, that it doesn't

00:10:35.560 exist at all. It's an invention of the psychiatric field itself. Now, according to this argument,

00:10:40.960 which I find extremely persuasive, there's only a very, very, very small number of patients who would

00:10:47.480 even potentially qualify for this diagnosis. And then among that small group, a certain portion

00:10:52.860 of them are simply faking it. That's the problem with a lot of mental illnesses, in fact, is that

00:11:00.160 despite what you're often told or what you might think, with a lot of these illnesses,

00:11:06.100 they have not located the illness in the physical brain itself. Because if they had, they wouldn't

00:11:11.980 call it a mental illness. They would call it a brain disease or a neurological condition.

00:11:16.000 Well, those are distinct categories. So if they're calling it a mental illness, it means

00:11:20.220 that they have not with any, with any, they have certainly not conclusively located the

00:11:27.940 illness within the brain. And if you haven't located the illness physically, then it's really

00:11:33.200 just theoretical whether it physically exists or not. And so that's, that's, that's another

00:11:40.100 idea about multiple personality disorder, that it doesn't exist, that it's only a very, very

00:11:44.980 small group of people who potentially would even qualify for it. Many of them are faking

00:11:50.040 it. And then there's also another portion that have been convinced, they're not faking it

00:11:54.460 intentionally. They've just been convinced through cultural and therapeutic influences

00:11:58.360 that they have the disorder when they really don't. So it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

00:12:03.700 Now, at any rate, it certainly can be said that those who believe in the existence of legitimate

00:12:10.200 multiple personality disorder have never come close to actually proving that it exists.

00:12:15.260 All they could do is produce examples of people who claim to have it, which is far from the

00:12:19.680 sort of proof that they would really need. Is it even possible for a single mind to contain

00:12:25.660 multiple distinct personalities, distinct minds within itself, which are separate from each

00:12:31.860 other and not aware of what the other is thinking? How does that even work? Is it possible

00:12:38.340 for a mind to be compartmentalized in that way? It's an extraordinary concept, which requires

00:12:44.480 extraordinary evidence to prove, and none of that evidence has been provided. But that's all

00:12:49.260 somewhat academic, right? Whether split personalities exist or not, we can hopefully all agree

00:12:53.420 that 10 million people on TikTok didn't all suddenly start suffering from the illness all at the same

00:12:59.580 time. This trend is without a doubt a result of both self-delusion and deliberate fraud,

00:13:06.000 and often kind of a mix of the two. Maybe it begins as a deliberate fraud, and then people

00:13:11.940 actually succeed in convincing themselves that they really have it. I used to be very good at this

00:13:18.740 kind of thing when I was a kid, when I would pretend that I was six, I didn't have to go to school,

00:13:22.840 and then by late morning, I'd actually start feeling sick because I was so good at acting the part.

00:13:28.900 And I think something like that happens sometimes with these mental illnesses.

00:13:31.020 Now, the more interesting and important question is why exactly so many people would want to convince

00:13:39.780 the world and themselves that they suffer from what would be a debilitating mental illness.

00:13:45.520 I think there are a few answers to that. One is the most obvious point that the mentally ill are a 1.00

00:13:52.040 victim class. Victimhood is power in our culture, as we know. The more victim labels you can claim,

00:13:59.100 the more power, the more social credit you accrue. Also, too, many people lack anything approaching

00:14:05.060 a real identity or a real personality, mostly because they've been staring at screens every

00:14:09.760 waking moment of their lives and letting the internet do all of their thinking for them.

00:14:13.960 And they have almost no internal dialogue. They have almost no internal life at all.

00:14:19.900 And because of this, you know, they tend to adopt a quantity over quality approach to personality.

00:14:27.620 Usually, this will come in the form of adopting different pronouns, different sex and gender

00:14:31.460 identities. But this latest thing is even better because it allows them to literally take on

00:14:35.780 more than one personality. All of the personalities are dull and uninteresting,

00:14:40.420 but what they lack in substance, they make up for in sheer numbers, I guess.

00:14:46.740 Three, related to this, mental illness in general is especially trendy in its own right,

00:14:51.880 largely for the reasons covered by the first two points. And four, this all stems from our

00:14:57.520 fundamentally disjointed and essentially superstitious view of the self.

00:15:02.600 So we see the self, ourselves, the self generally, not as a continuous, holistic, coherent thing,

00:15:12.520 but as an arbitrary amalgamation of our desires and our hopes and our preferences in any given

00:15:18.900 moment. We're constantly in the process of uncreating and recreating ourselves. Our self of five

00:15:26.580 minutes ago doesn't necessarily bear any relation to our self of right now. And our self of right now

00:15:32.520 may be entirely different from the self that takes the field tomorrow. We see ourselves in this

00:15:40.880 culture today as these kinds of shape-shifting changelings, lacking any concrete overriding identity.

00:15:51.360 And according to this view of things, really, we all have dissociative identity disorder because it's

00:15:58.440 easy to dissociate from an identity when you don't really have one at all to begin with.

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00:17:15.700 All right, I got to hurry up and get through this show so I can go out and I can go out there,

00:17:20.480 out just outside my car here and hit the slopes. And by that, I mean sled down the hill.

00:17:25.540 In the backyard in my kid's $5 plastic saucer sled. You know, I mentioned this on the show

00:17:31.420 yesterday and that I like to, you know, go sledding when it snows. And lots of people seem

00:17:36.980 surprised and sort of taken aback and maybe slightly disturbed by this image of me going

00:17:42.640 sledding and enjoying myself. Because that's not really on brand. I mean, sledding is not on brand

00:17:47.620 and enjoying myself is not on brand. Enjoyment is not part of my brand. But I want to clarify,

00:17:52.820 just to try to put an end to the PR crisis that has happened because of this rumor that I enjoy

00:17:58.660 myself. My kids know that this is not about enjoyment, okay? My kids know that I always have

00:18:05.980 to use the sleds first. And I have to play with any cool toys that they get. I have to play with

00:18:10.880 them first. And I have to eat all their candy. And, you know, and I do that because it's about

00:18:17.000 making sure that they're safe. It's about making sure that these things are safe for them.

00:18:20.500 So this is a sacrifice on my part that I take on. Like, for example, the other day, my son took

00:18:26.620 his allowance money and he used it to buy a remote control car for himself. A cheap one. Okay,

00:18:33.200 believe me, we don't give these kids much in the way of allowance. So he had to save for about four

00:18:38.140 years to buy a $12 toy. But anyway, he brought it home. And I, of course, had to play with it first

00:18:44.580 just to make sure that it, you know, that it was safe, that it didn't explode or, you know,

00:18:49.620 go haywire and start bumping into people's shins or whatever. And then when I started chasing the dog

00:18:55.320 around the kitchen with a remote control car, that was all about safety. It was just making sure that

00:19:00.800 it's safe. It's all safety. And my kids are so used to this now that every time they get a new toy or

00:19:06.260 they have a new piece of candy or whatever, and I come into the room, they always ask me timidly.

00:19:11.700 They say, Daddy, can you please not check if it's safe? Can we just use it ourselves?

00:19:17.020 Well, what do you mean? You want me to forsake my fatherly duty? No, children. No. This hurts me

00:19:24.000 more than it hurts you. Believe me. But I have to do what I have to do. You'll understand when you're

00:19:29.180 older. Okay, this is what love is all about. All right. So first of all, we'll start here. Today is

00:19:35.740 January 6th. You've probably heard by now. The most important of days. The most solemn

00:19:41.640 of days. The holiest. The most tragic. The most significant. It's a day when almost every show

00:19:48.040 will be talking about the fact that today is today and what today means and what it means

00:19:53.320 and what it meant a year ago and what it means today and what it will mean next year. Both right

00:19:59.160 and left shows. We'll be talking about January 6th on January 6th and the fact that it is January 6th,

00:20:04.260 which is why I will not say anything else about it. Moving on. Second, Aaron Rodgers is the odds-on

00:20:11.340 favorite to win MVP this year in the NFL because statistically he's had a great season and he's

00:20:16.980 playing well. His team is playing well. But some sports writers have decided that he doesn't deserve

00:20:21.380 to be MVP because he isn't vaccinated. Chicago sports writer Hub Arkush was on a local radio show

00:20:27.920 yesterday in Chicago where he explained why he didn't vote for Rodgers. And again, it's got nothing to do

00:20:34.260 it's all about his medical choices. Roger. Do you have an MVP vote this year, Hub?

00:20:39.320 I do. Yeah, I'm one of the AP. There's 50 of us who vote and I am one of us.

00:20:43.780 And are you, did you reveal that you're not voting for Aaron Rodgers? Is that correct?

00:20:48.540 I did. Yeah. I mean, I've been pretty consistent about that all year. I don't think you can be the

00:20:53.340 biggest jerk in the league and punish your team and your organization and your fan base the way he did 0.99

00:20:57.700 and be the most valuable player. Has he been the most valuable on the field? Yeah, 0.99

00:21:02.620 you could make that argument, but I don't think he is clearly that much more valuable than Jonathan

00:21:08.260 Taylor or Cooper Cup or maybe even Tom Brady. And so from where I sit, the rest of it is why he's

00:21:16.440 not going to be my choice. Do I think he's going to win it? Probably. You know, a lot of the voters

00:21:21.380 don't approach it the same way that I do. Others do who I've spoken to. But one of the ways we get to

00:21:26.880 keep being voters is we're not allowed to say who we are voting for until after the award has been

00:21:31.420 announced. I'm probably pushing the envelope by saying who I'm not voting for. But we're not

00:21:36.680 really supposed to reveal our votes. Okay. So we're going to decide MVP based on personal medical

00:21:43.340 decisions that Aaron Rodgers has made. And as we've gone over a million times, you know, the argument

00:21:50.720 that, well, it's not really personal because it affects other people, because you can affect other

00:21:55.100 people if you don't get vaccinated. That argument, that was weak. When a year ago, when these vaccines

00:22:02.440 first came out, now it's not just weak, it's it's moot. It's a moot point. You can't make that argument

00:22:07.540 anymore. You can make it, but you're not gonna be taken seriously. Because vaccinated or not, everyone's

00:22:12.800 spreading the virus. So the your whole argument about how it's reckless, you know, to not get

00:22:22.520 vaccinated. You're not just being reckless with your own health, but you're putting other people in 0.99

00:22:26.000 danger. That's that is the argument that all this stuff is based on the mandates, everything. It's all

00:22:31.720 based on the idea that you're putting other people in danger if you don't get vaccinated. Well, that never

00:22:36.820 really made sense, because if the vaccines prevent transmission, then as long as you're vaccinated, you

00:22:44.580 have nothing to worry about. But now we know they don't. And so everyone's in the same boat. But you know,

00:22:51.460 part of this is also just this is also when we look at the politicization, politicization of sports

00:22:59.860 and when they're lecturing about vaccines or whatever, you know, part of this is a fact that

00:23:08.020 a lot of these sports writers are dyed in the wool lefties. So we know that. But also, I think at a

00:23:14.340 deeper level, psychologically, they want their job to be a lot more important than it really is.

00:23:20.360 I think at a certain level, they they realize and they they acknowledge that they do what they do 0.99

00:23:30.140 for a living is really kind of stupid and frivolous. And I say that as someone who enjoys sports and I 0.99

00:23:35.860 like watching sports and I'll listen to sports analysts drone on sometimes. But I even when I'm

00:23:43.520 sitting there and I'm watching sports analysts, I'm listening to sports analysts argue about who's the MVP

00:23:48.740 or whatever, you know, who who played the best game yesterday. I'm listening to these arguments.

00:23:55.020 I still recognize that this is very, very stupid, really. It's one thing to watch the sport, but the 0.99

00:24:01.780 discussion around it. It's really kind of dumb. And if this is what you do for a living every single 1.00

00:24:07.560 day, then I think some of these people that's that's that's why look, if this is what you do for a

00:24:11.700 living, you talk about sports and and you embrace that, like this is what I do. It's it's it's

00:24:18.400 entertainment. I'm I'm an entertainer and and that's fine. Then I say, well, that's that's

00:24:23.340 perfectly noble. That's perfectly fine. OK, I I do a podcast for a living here. I am in my car right

00:24:29.920 now. How important can I be? So as long as you will embrace that, that's what it is. It's just

00:24:34.760 entertainment. Sports is entertainment. And if you're a sports writer, then you also, in effect,

00:24:40.820 are an entertainer because that's all that this is all about. But I think that there are some

00:24:48.360 sports writers, sports analysts who who want to be more important than that. And when you think about

00:24:55.100 the discussion, what this guy what's this guy's name again? Hub Arkush. He's brought on to talk

00:25:01.200 about MVP. What is that? The most let's have it. Let's have a discussion and let's debate for

00:25:08.520 months on end who the most valuable player is, which is a totally arbitrary doesn't even make

00:25:14.640 really any sense. The most valuable player to his own team. Well, each team has their own most

00:25:20.380 valuable player. So who's the most valuable list of all the valuable players? What does that mean?

00:25:25.740 Why does it matter? Who who exactly put you in charge of declaring that? Who cares what you

00:25:32.080 declare? It's all arbitrary, but they want to find some deeper social significance to what they're

00:25:37.220 doing because of their own ego, their own narcissism, their own vanity. They don't want to admit that,

00:25:42.560 hey, we're just entertainers. This is all entertainment. That's all it is. And so I think that's what a lot

00:25:46.020 of this politicization is all about. OK, meanwhile, Whoopi Goldberg has been gone from the view because she

00:25:51.280 got COVID, even though she's been vaccinated three times. And she came out of the view yesterday to

00:25:56.380 talk about how shocked she is that she did everything right and she still got COVID.

00:26:02.260 I left a couple of weeks ago, just before the break, because somebody I had been around

00:26:09.300 tested positive for coronavirus. So I left. So I've been gone a long time, I feel. And I was all excited

00:26:17.180 and, you know, they have to test us. And so they sent people to test me and they tested me. And it

00:26:25.360 was like, oh, no, you're not you're not coming back. We're not sending anybody to your house. You

00:26:30.660 have Corona. And it was like, wait, what? What? It was it was a shock because, you know, I'm triple

00:26:36.960 vaxxed. I haven't been anywhere. I haven't done anything. But that's the that's the thing about

00:26:41.560 the Omicron. You just don't know where it is. You don't know where it is. Who's got it?

00:26:46.460 Who's passing it? So, you know, it's one of those things where you think I've done everything I was

00:26:51.740 supposed to do. Yeah, it doesn't it doesn't it doesn't stop Omicron. And that's the problem

00:26:57.020 with a variant because it gets stronger and does different stuff to you. So, you know,

00:27:04.060 unless everybody gets vaccinated, this is what we're going to be facing.

00:27:08.580 OK, first of all, it's really cold in this in this car. I didn't really think about that. It's about

00:27:12.760 20 degrees outside and I can't have the car on because that'd make that'd be a distracting

00:27:17.940 noise. So I'm just sitting here freezing anyway. Whoopi Goldberg is is really shocked and appalled

00:27:24.940 and almost sort of offended by the universe that it's put her in this position. She says,

00:27:32.260 I did everything right and I still got it. Well, yeah. Now, maybe connect the dots on that.

00:27:39.800 You've spent years doing it. You have adjusted your life. You have your life has revolved around

00:27:45.940 this for years. You've been wearing masks. You've been you've you've been injecting everything they

00:27:50.560 tell you to inject every time big pharma comes out with another another another vial of

00:27:56.100 of drugs. And they say, inject this into your body. You say, oh, yep, here's my arm. You present

00:28:02.440 it dutifully to be injected with it. And you do all of that. And you've secluded yourself from your

00:28:08.860 family, all of that. And yet you still got it. OK, so you've you've realized that now connect the next

00:28:17.720 dot. Just what does that mean? Does that mean that, well, now you've got to double down

00:28:24.360 and inject yourself with even more stuff and wear five masks now instead of four and isolate

00:28:33.280 yourself even more. No, it means that it's futile, that there's no reason to do it, that you're going

00:28:40.340 to get sick. Everyone's going to get sick and then you're good. And then most likely you're going to

00:28:44.420 be fine. And then you're gonna go back to living your life and down the road from now, maybe a year

00:28:49.600 from now, maybe two years, maybe five years, you'll probably get sick again with COVID.

00:28:54.360 And then eventually you'll get sick with something, probably not COVID, that will kill

00:28:58.840 you. And that will be it. So live your life. OK, and then there's there's this one more thing 0.73

00:29:04.520 on COVID. Here is user that darn chat on TikTok giving her reflections on the last two years. 0.90

00:29:11.820 And she is by far not alone, I think, in feeling this way, unfortunately. Listen. 0.97

00:29:18.040 I usually have no problem finding words for things, but lately I just I'm at a loss. Every

00:29:25.320 single person I talk to is drowning. And for me, the day to day, it's fine. It's not fine,

00:29:31.600 but it's fine. I'm getting through it. And I feel like I've been in a state of grief now for what,

00:29:37.580 two years? Grief that my kid will never go to a story time at the library. My kids haven't had

00:29:43.100 birthday parties. My grandparents have never met my two year old. There's grief around what I've

00:29:47.980 had to face through difficult conversations with loved ones, learning that there is a drastic

00:29:53.540 difference between my values and theirs. Grief in having to face that we are only cogs in a machine

00:29:59.420 that despite the fact when capitalism failed early pandemic and so many people stepped up to care for

00:30:05.940 each other. The systems that be want to continue to make survival an individual effort. I feel grief

00:30:13.000 over isolation. I feel grief that my kids have to grow up with a mom in survival mode and morning

00:30:19.280 routine and access to dreams because it just feels like there's no end. Every day as a parent is

00:30:26.140 assessing risk and trying to figure out what fat to trim. Yeah, it is really cold in here.

00:30:32.180 Can you see my breath yet? It's very cold in this car. Anyway, what was she talking about? Yeah,

00:30:39.600 yeah. This is, unfortunately, she says she feels all this grief and everything. And

00:30:44.680 these are all things that she's, that she has done to herself. These are all choices that she has made

00:30:49.520 for no good reason whatsoever. She has decided to destroy her life and that's, that's her own decision.

00:30:55.320 But unfortunately she has kids and it's not their decision. And she's destroying their life as well. 0.99

00:31:01.320 But what we have to understand, unfortunately, is that, you know, there, there's no rescuing these

00:31:07.080 people. Um, I mean, that woman there, there's, there's, her brain is broken. I don't think there's

00:31:13.640 any way to rescue her now. As I've been talking about this, this part of what this has been about

00:31:19.820 from the beginning is that people are, people like this woman here who had been living in this

00:31:27.440 kind of psychological bubble and had insulated themselves in their luxury, had been insulated,

00:31:34.480 insulated themselves from, from the reality of the human condition and from the reality of their 0.93

00:31:39.520 own mortality, finally face, forced to, to confront the reality of human mortality. They just, in,

00:31:46.600 in that confrontation, it, it, something snapped in their heads and they, they weren't able to face

00:31:52.700 it because that's all this has been about. Someone, someone like her, she's young. She appears to be

00:32:00.620 healthy. COVID has posed almost no threat to her at all this entire time, but it is a threat. I mean,

00:32:11.260 it's out there. It could kill you. And, um, and there are many other things that could kill you

00:32:17.200 too, but this is the, but this is being shoved down your throat every second of the day.

00:32:22.740 And so it just, it made her realize her along with millions of other people very early on,

00:32:28.860 it was like this moment for them where they, they realized, Oh my gosh, there's, I'm a human being.

00:32:33.180 I'm, I'm, I'm mortal. I could die. I am totally vulnerable and naked and exposed in my, in, in the

00:32:43.700 human condition. I am this frail, pathetic little thing here for only a temporary period of time 0.98

00:32:50.800 and everything out there could kill me at any second. 0.98

00:32:55.100 Now some, some people who are a bit more reflective have always known that and have lived every day

00:33:02.900 with that awareness. And we've learned how to just cope with it, but she never did. She never

00:33:08.680 learned how to cope with it. And, um, all of this came on all at once and it broke her and so many

00:33:15.980 others. And I'm not sure that there's any rescuing them now psychologically. And that's a, that's a great

00:33:21.580 tragedy because again, if we can't rescue them, it means that's gonna be very difficult to rescue

00:33:27.220 their kids. All right. Uh, moving on this from the New York post says Pope Francis 85 had some choice

00:33:36.480 words. Pope Francis, 85 years old, by the way, that's not his name. Pope Francis 85. Um, Pope

00:33:42.580 Francis had some choice words for the childless at the Vatican on Wednesday and remarks to a general

00:33:47.860 audience. The Catholic church had called out couples who have chosen not to have children

00:33:52.140 and opted to have pets. Instead, the Pope said, quote, today, we see a form of selfishness.

00:33:58.080 We see that some people do not want to have a child. Sometimes they have one and that's it,

00:34:03.540 but they have dogs and cats that take the place of the children. He suggested that, uh, couples who

00:34:08.880 can't bear children should look into adoption. The cost of which can tally up to $70,000. The Pope

00:34:14.260 went on, went on, how many children in the world are waiting for someone to take care

00:34:17.800 of them? It's a risk. Yes. Having a child is always a risk either naturally or by adoption,

00:34:22.620 but it is riskier not to have them. It is riskier to deny fatherhood or to deny motherhood,

00:34:27.880 be it real or spiritual. Um, well, it's not very often that I get to say that I agree with Pope

00:34:35.700 Francis about something. As I said, even a book, even a broken Pope is right. Well, he's certainly

00:34:40.020 not right twice a day, but maybe twice a decade he's right about something. And so this is one of

00:34:44.660 those times. Um, it's, it almost sounds like Pope Francis has been listening to the Matt

00:34:50.060 Walsh show. Maybe he listens to my podcast. I don't know, because this is something you've

00:34:53.800 heard me rant and rave about many times. Look, and we need to clarify for the people who struggle

00:35:00.400 with this for some reason. When we talk about this, nobody is saying that you have some kind of moral

00:35:07.860 failing. If you're not able to have kids, obviously, um, nobody's saying that it's a moral failing to

00:35:17.080 have pets. Well, I would almost go that far, but I'm not going to go that far, especially because

00:35:22.420 unfortunately we have pets. Uh, so that's, that's not the point. The point is when a choice is made

00:35:29.660 by couples, you know, who could, who could be parents when a choice is made to be the parent of,

00:35:38.060 uh, of animals rather than human beings. That's when it becomes a moral failing. That is selfishness.

00:35:45.740 That is you giving up on the human species. And in fact, as Pope Francis points out, if you're a 0.92

00:35:54.540 couple and, um, and you can't have kids again, not your fault, but that's when you're, you, you are,

00:36:01.540 uh, prime candidates to go adopt any of the, any of the many children out there who are languishing in

00:36:08.660 the adoption system or in foster homes. Now adoption isn't, isn't for everyone necessarily. I mean,

00:36:15.320 that's something you got to reflect about and pray about, but, but, uh, but, you know, if you,

00:36:20.660 if you can't have kids rather than going out and adopting 15 dogs or something, it's certainly worth

00:36:28.080 considering whether one of these children right now who have, I mean, think about kids who are

00:36:34.380 suffering in this way. It's, it's unthinkable. Now, fortunately, um, young, young, very young

00:36:42.880 children, babies, there's a wait list two miles long for babies who are up for adoption. They're

00:36:50.840 not going to be in the system for very long, but a child who's a little bit older is six or seven

00:36:55.720 years old and ends up in the system, ends up in a foster home, uh, ends up in the adoption system.

00:37:01.940 You know, there's, they're just, there aren't that many candidates out there waiting to adopt kids

00:37:06.780 that age. And so that's a great thing that you could do is to become a parent of one of those

00:37:11.600 children. It's something to consider. But mainly, I think what we're talking about here is the choice

00:37:16.880 again, to forego being an actual parent of human beings. And instead you're going to be a parent

00:37:24.040 of animals. Um, I, I do think that there's a fair amount of selfishness that comes into this.

00:37:32.400 You know, the, why is it that people love having pets? And when they talk, when you, when you,

00:37:38.760 when you hear people say that, uh, they prefer dogs over people, you know, you know, you know,

00:37:44.960 how much that annoys me when I hear people say that, especially because I know why they're saying

00:37:49.380 it. Why do they prefer dogs over people? Well, because dogs are not nearly as challenging as

00:37:54.840 people. Dogs don't, don't require sacrifice of you the same way, the same way people do.

00:38:02.780 A dog is just going to sit there. He's going to be very happy to see you all the time. He has very

00:38:08.240 little, he has, he has very little of his, of his own identity, you know, so he's not going to impose

00:38:14.020 his own identity on you in that way. He is there for you. Um, uh, and, and his, his life revolves around

00:38:24.720 you. And that's, and that's why people love dogs that much because it makes them feel better about

00:38:33.800 themselves. Cause when you get a dog, that dog's life is going to revolve entirely around you.

00:38:39.540 Doesn't make it bad to have a dog, but that is why people like dogs. Human beings are different.

00:38:45.460 You know, a human being, they're going to be, they're going to have their own identity

00:38:47.860 and their life is not going to revolve entirely around you. As very young children, that tends to be

00:38:54.140 the way it goes, but as they get older, they start to develop their own identity.

00:38:58.980 And, um, that's when there's even more of a sacrifice required of you. That also means that

00:39:04.760 the love in that relationship is much more meaningful because it's also, this is, this is also a choice

00:39:12.680 made by both people. So it's all self-serving, I think. Okay. Um, this is from the Daily Wire.

00:39:21.020 There are several women on the University of Pennsylvania swim team considered boycotting 0.97

00:39:25.640 their final home meet in protest of transgender teammate Leah Thomas's physical advantages and

00:39:30.800 dominance. The women ultimately decided not to go through with the boycott. The Daily Mail reported

00:39:35.340 fearing that they would be banned from the Ivy League championship. The women also discussed

00:39:39.280 participating in a false start. A source close to the team told the Daily Mail, um,

00:39:44.420 they've been ignored by both Penn and the NCAA. And there's a feeling amongst some of the girls

00:39:50.960 that they should make some sort of statement, seize the opportunity while they have a spotlight on them

00:39:54.560 to make their feelings about the issue known.

00:39:58.820 So they were, they were thinking about staging a protest. They were thinking about boycotting.

00:40:04.320 They were thinking about refusing to take part in all of this. Um, but then ultimately they decided

00:40:09.280 otherwise, well, I have to say it's good that they were thinking about it,

00:40:12.960 but we need to graduate beyond the point of simply thinking about it and actually doing.

00:40:20.940 So I understand why they didn't go through with it because they're worried about the consequences

00:40:26.580 to their career. They're, they're worried about, um, what will happen. They're worried about being

00:40:34.000 punished by the Ivy league or whatever. So, so I, I get that, but at a certain point,

00:40:40.460 we need to be willing to make sacrifices in order to take a stand for what's right,

00:40:49.260 to take a stand for basic sanity and truth and moral decency.

00:40:56.340 If we're ruling that out, if we are ruling courage out and we're saying, well, we want to solve all

00:41:03.160 these problems in a way that will not require courage. Well then forget it, pack it in, forget it.

00:41:11.840 None of these problems, civilization is done. Abandon all hope at that point. If we're ruling

00:41:18.700 out courage, because yeah, it would, it would require courage. It's, it's not fair to these

00:41:23.420 girls that they were put in this position. It's not fair that, that, um, refusing to participate in

00:41:29.060 the charade of a swim meet where there's a guy competing against girls. It's not fair that that

00:41:34.260 could, um, create significant blowback for them. None of that is fair, but, but, but that's, that's

00:41:41.620 life. That, that's what they're faced with. That's the reality. It shouldn't be that way, but it is.

00:41:49.840 And so if you want to help make sure that it's not going to be that way for the next group,

00:41:53.740 then you need to stand up and do the right thing. Not just think about it, do it. Yes, it, it, it,

00:42:01.080 it, it may cause problems for you. It may hurt your career. It may damage your reputation,

00:42:06.780 but there are times in life when that's, when you're called upon to make those kinds of sacrifices.

00:42:14.700 This is one of those times.

00:42:16.040 I am at the point of, of victim blaming with this. I really am.

00:42:25.160 You know, the, the people, the women who choose to participate in these kinds of events,

00:42:33.860 when there's men involved, the parents who don't pull their kids out,

00:42:39.220 all the people who go along with it. I mean, I, I think they all deserve some of the blame now

00:42:47.240 because there's something you could do about it and you're not doing it.

00:42:55.820 If all of these girls got together and said, we are not doing this. We're not going to participate

00:43:00.480 in this. This is a farce. Everyone knows that it's a farce. Everyone knows that it's wrong.

00:43:05.320 And we're not going to play this game. If every girl did that, or even half of them, 0.99

00:43:12.600 then this problem goes away.

00:43:16.860 Time to step up. Time to step up, ladies. All right. Uh, from the New York post, it says the

00:43:21.220 pizza chain, Little Caesars is bumping the price of its famous hot and ready pizza above $5 for the

00:43:26.700 first time in a quarter century. The price of the promotional pie, which was first introduced in 1997

00:43:31.640 is increasing by 11% to $5 and 55 cents. So inflation claims another victim. Um, but I do have

00:43:39.820 to say, and this is pretty bad because $5 is already way overpriced for what they're selling.

00:43:46.280 Little Caesars pizza taste wise is indistinguishable from the box it comes in. So it's actually kind of

00:43:52.660 a nice deal because it's, it's a two for one. You can eat the pizza and then eat the cardboard box

00:43:57.540 that it comes in and they're like the same thing. They taste the same. Little Caesars pizza is a,

00:44:03.080 is a pizza box with, um, hot ketchup smeared across and a little bit of mozzarella cheese.

00:44:10.000 And that's, that's the whole recipe. Little Caesars is so bad that it makes dominoes seem edible by

00:44:15.940 comparison. That's how bad it is. And now it's going to be $5 and 55 cents. Thanks a lot, Joe Biden.

00:44:22.040 Let's get down to the comment section. Oh man, I can't feel my toes at this point. So we got to

00:44:37.040 hurry up through this. Uh, Jesse Miller says I could totally imagine Matt out in the snow,

00:44:41.260 taking sledding super seriously. Well, I do take it seriously because again, it's all about safety

00:44:45.100 for my kids and, um, it's a very serious business. Phillip says I've been in law enforcement since

00:44:50.000 1991. I must say something. If any of the Capitol police officers who are present on January 6th

00:44:54.580 are traumatized by that event, then they should probably seek another career because they're

00:44:58.300 not cut out to be in law enforcement. Uh, yeah, I think, I think what you're saying is valid,

00:45:03.860 especially because we have not heard, um, any of the officers who were subjected to the BLM riots

00:45:12.600 complaining about their trauma. Von Ronken says the cry circle tradition was absolutely hilarious.

00:45:19.160 This hilarious. This is my pain and suffering and that of my family. And you find that hilarious.

00:45:32.280 These open vulnerable moments that we have as a family where we sit around in a circle and weep.

00:45:39.600 Well, I'm glad to know that, that our pain is funny to you. You're banned from the show. Yes,

00:45:45.740 I can still ban you from the show, even as I'm sitting in my car. Um, and, uh, let's see. James

00:45:52.180 says, Matt, I'm a mortgage loan officer. Seeing how interested in my business you are and how much

00:45:56.640 you truly appreciate it makes me happier than I can express. Well, yeah, mortgages are one of my great

00:46:01.160 passions in life. Um, just like all of, all of our, um, advertisers, all of our sponsors, you know,

00:46:07.880 I'm passionate. I think, I think it really comes through in the way that I read the advertisements.

00:46:11.840 Um, Constantine says armed robbery should unironically carry the death penalty.

00:46:19.420 I think there's a much better argument that can be made for the death penalty for all armed robbers

00:46:23.840 than the, than misdemeanor as what it is in Manhattan. Now it's a misdemeanor.

00:46:29.920 Um, and oh, there was a good one that I gotta, I gotta read. Oh, here it is. Here's Johnny says,

00:46:37.580 Hey Matt, I think you'll find this story interesting. So yesterday I went into a department

00:46:41.740 store while sporting my brand new sweet baby gang t-shirt that I got for Christmas this year.

00:46:46.380 When it was my turn to check out, I approached the counter with my things.

00:46:49.580 As the cashier began scanning, he soon took notice of my shirt and asked me with a smile.

00:46:53.900 So what does your shirt mean anyway? As I started to open my mouth to explain,

00:46:57.620 another store worker close by interrupted while laughing and goes, yeah, is that like a daycare

00:47:02.060 center or something? How dare he? How dare he? I was a little bit offended, but I just wanted to

00:47:09.060 move on with my day. So I simply said back to him, no, it's actually more of an inside joke. At that

00:47:14.020 moment, the cashier asked me, so what's the joke? At this point I was pretty ticked off. I then adjusted

00:47:18.600 my posture, began to arch my shoulders back to assert my dominance, uh, made close, made, made close eye

00:47:25.200 contact with both of them and proudly said aloud, the first rule of sweet baby gang is nobody talks about

00:47:30.340 sweet baby gang. They both laughed loudly and the coworker began to walk away while shaking his

00:47:35.480 head saying, oh, MFG man. Wow. The cashier still chuckling a bit, then asked seriously, dude.

00:47:42.180 I looked him stone cold in the face, stared right into his eyes and sternly replied, yes. He then

00:47:47.800 seemed taken aback and even froze for a second before responding to me. He then leaned over to the

00:47:52.120 counter towards me and whispered in my ear, how can I become a member?

00:47:55.440 I have to say, normally when someone tells me ahead of time how I'm going to respond to a story,

00:48:03.460 oh, you'll like this. Oh, you'll think this is funny. Oh, you'll find this interesting.

00:48:07.060 Normally when they do that, I'll react the opposite way just out of spite because I don't like being

00:48:10.580 told what to do. But in this case, yeah, I did indeed find that very interesting. Um, that was a far

00:48:16.520 more interesting story than anything in any Marvel movie, for example. And this just shows the beauty of

00:48:22.540 the sweet baby gang, I think, because it confuses people and it makes them very uncomfortable and it

00:48:28.800 causes really awkward conversations. But then in the end, in the midst of the chaos, their defenses

00:48:35.040 are broken down and that's when we grab them. You know, that's when we take hold of them.

00:48:41.280 And before they, before they know it, they're in the cult too. So masterfully done, Johnny,

00:48:46.680 my good and faithful servant. Tomorrow's a huge day for the Daily Wire and the lawsuit against the

00:48:51.420 Biden administration's tyrannical vaccine mandates. Why is that? Because it's the day the Supreme

00:48:55.240 Court will convene to hear arguments on the legality and constitutionality of the Biden's,

00:49:00.300 uh, Biden administration's dissent into all out medical tyranny. That's why we need to make sure

00:49:06.240 that we have as many signatures as we possibly can on our do not comply petition. Um, and we've

00:49:11.500 already got 1 million. We want to add more. Go to dailywire.com slash do not comply. It's dailywire.com

00:49:17.700 slash do not comply and sign that petition. Now, now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:49:25.300 You know, over the last couple of days, I've spoken about my experience watching the latest

00:49:29.320 Spider-Man film over Christmas break. Um, as a father, um, again, called upon to make many harrowing

00:49:35.180 sacrifices for my children and taking them to see Spider-Man was just the latest. In fact,

00:49:39.180 many of my fatherly sacrifices have to do with, uh, enduring awful movies, you know, and it's a burden

00:49:45.040 that I carry with, with, uh, with silent dignity, I think. Well, maybe not silent and not dignity

00:49:51.480 because I complain about it all the time, but still the point is that I watched Spider-Man.

00:49:55.840 I didn't like it to say the least. And during the comment section of the show, um, I have briefly

00:50:00.880 made my case against it, but this conversation has provoked anger from the audience and even

00:50:06.900 dissension within the ranks at the daily wire. My own producers, Sean and McKenna are Marvel

00:50:12.060 apologists themselves. And I'm told by a source that when I was making fun of Spider-Man yesterday

00:50:16.540 on the show, the people in the control room were shaking their heads scornfully because they didn't

00:50:21.880 approve of what I was saying. Things have gotten very, very tense. We just hired a new intern for

00:50:27.280 the show, uh, this week. And I had to send her to my car yesterday to start my car for me in case

00:50:32.400 somebody had planted a bomb or something. Cause that's, that's how serious this is. But one thing

00:50:37.480 you know about me is that when people get upset about something that I say, that just encourages

00:50:42.380 me to say it again, louder and longer. I have, as you know, the maturity of a four-year-old,

00:50:47.640 which means that I should actually be the target audience for Marvel movies, but they still don't

00:50:52.060 resonate with me because although I have the maturity of a, of a toddler, uh, I still have the brain of an

00:50:56.980 adult, which unfortunately precludes me from enjoying anything that Marvel has to offer. And so today

00:51:02.660 we're moving beyond just the latest Spider-Man movie. And instead we're going to expand the scope

00:51:08.680 of our inquiry. And finally, once in for all, cancel Marvel itself, all Marvel movies. They're

00:51:15.320 all canceled. Indeed, all superhero movies of all types are canceled. And I'll explain why the first

00:51:21.940 problem with superhero movies is that they're all exactly the same and they exist primarily to sell

00:51:27.920 merchandise. These films are basically 95 minute Mattel commercials only with less plot and worse

00:51:34.400 acting. Now I'm being generous when I say less plot, because that implies the basic existence of

00:51:39.700 some kind of plot. Now, superhero movies in the nineties were merely light on plot. Superhero movies

00:51:46.300 these days are entirely plot less. And that's because of the advent of franchise filmmaking and world

00:51:52.580 building. And that's turned every movie into a setup for the next movie, which itself is a

00:51:57.840 setup for the next one on and on into the infinite abyss. Nothing can ever really happen. There could

00:52:03.680 be no substantial progress, no final resolution, no real character development, no actual triumph for

00:52:11.080 defeat because it's always just setting it up for the next one. Each installment, none of these

00:52:17.180 installments exist on their own. None of them stand on their own as films. They just exist because

00:52:24.880 they got to set up the next one and the next one and the next one. You may as well pay $18 to watch

00:52:29.660 Thor play solitaire for two hours or something. I mean, it's, it's, it's the same in the end.

00:52:35.800 10,000 years from now, as, as the next installment of Spider-Man is released to the screens that we'll

00:52:40.740 all have permanently implanted in our eyeballs at that point, I think philosophers will be debating

00:52:45.980 whether these superhero franchises even had a beginning at all. They may well conclude that there was

00:52:52.000 no prime mover, no first cause in the Marvel and DC universe. These movies always existed telling the

00:52:59.360 exact same stories with the exact same actors since before the beginning of time itself. Now, don't get

00:53:06.760 me wrong. Um, I don't hate superhero movies as a concept. I have nothing against a fanciful tale about

00:53:15.480 a man in a rubber suit fighting bad guys, bad guys who through approximately 20 million story arcs

00:53:23.000 still have not thought to simply walk up to their nemesis and shoot him directly in the face. 0.95

00:53:29.140 Now I'm no expert on the mythology of Marvel or DC, but I'm pretty sure a bullet to the face would

00:53:35.120 dispatch almost all of the heroes in all of the universes. I know, except for Superman and a few

00:53:40.600 others, but the rest, I mean, Spider-Man just walk up to him and shoot him in the head. And that's, 0.98

00:53:46.860 that's it. That's the end of that. But these are issues with story and superhero movies don't exist

00:53:53.960 to tell stories. They don't exist because someone really felt passionate about telling another story

00:53:59.200 about Aquaman beating up a tiger shark or whatever. They exist to perpetuate a brand. Now, all filmmakers

00:54:07.900 want to make money. Every movie is supposed to make money, though lots of them don't. But for

00:54:13.720 these superhero franchises, that's the be all and end all. That's the alpha and omega. That's the only

00:54:19.040 point. The films are not inventions of storytellers, but of corporate focus groups. They are things made

00:54:27.440 simply to exploit a market. Now it's a very large market and a profitable one. And it's one that I

00:54:33.240 would sell my soul and exploit also if I could make a billion dollars doing it. But that's all this is

00:54:37.860 about. Now, when I talk about this, I'm often accused of taking the stories too seriously.

00:54:43.840 But that's exactly the problem. I don't take them seriously because I can't. I take them as

00:54:48.420 seriously as I take like a Geico commercial. And the problem is that the writers don't take the

00:54:53.380 stories seriously either, which is why they're at the point now of throwing everything into the mix

00:54:57.680 just to keep the franchise going. Superpowers, magic, miraculous technology, throw it all in.

00:55:05.000 Whatever is needed in each successive moment to propel it to the next moment.

00:55:10.460 And each moment is inherently meaningless because it only exists to set up the next one.

00:55:15.840 And then at the end, you can erase everybody's memory and do it all over again in the next movie.

00:55:21.120 The writers have no respect for the audience.

00:55:23.320 They aren't writers at all. They're glorified content aggregators.

00:55:29.340 All of these Marvel script writers, they should be writing listicles for BuzzFeed.

00:55:34.240 But instead, they're making Marvel movies.

00:55:37.620 Because that's what the movies really are. They're kind of just like clickbait content.

00:55:43.320 In the era of content creation, that's what these movies are. They're simply content.

00:55:48.100 It's Marvel saying, well, here's two and a half hours. 1.00

00:55:54.120 You moron, sit down and have some of this. 1.00

00:55:58.900 They shovel more slop into the mouths of an ever eager and compliant public, 1.00

00:56:03.940 always ready to eat whatever is served to them.

00:56:06.800 That's why I don't just dislike these movies.

00:56:08.920 I reject them on principle.

00:56:10.480 I hate everything they stand for.

00:56:12.320 And I urge you to free yourself of their clutches.

00:56:17.240 I urge you to join me in saying to comic book movies,

00:56:21.120 you are canceled.

00:56:27.040 And my feet are officially numb now.

00:56:30.040 So I'm going to stop the show and go inside and warm up

00:56:32.480 before I die of hypothermia right on camera.

00:56:35.860 Which would be, speaking of content, would be interesting content.

00:56:38.900 That's going to do it for us today.

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