Ep. 878 - The Left Attacks Dr. Phil For Allowing Me To Speak
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The left is now going after Dr. Phil for allowing me onto a show in the first place. Also, the March for Life takes D.C. by storm, and the Biden administration trots out Tom Hanks to convince the public that his first year in office was not a complete disaster. Plus, an old clip of an MSNBC host saying that your kids don t belong to you goes viral again. And M&Ms are getting a more progressive and inclusive rebranding for the year 2022. With this final piece in place, Utopia awaits. We ll talk about all that and much more today on The Matt Warshaw Show.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, the left is now going after Dr. Phil for allowing me onto a show in the
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first place. But if they're confident in their position and if they really believe in their own
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gender ideology, why should they be so afraid of having the debate in the first place? Also,
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the March for Life takes D.C. by storm and the Biden administration has to trot out Tom Hanks
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to convince the public that his first year in office was not a complete disaster. Plus,
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an old clip of an MSNBC host saying that your kids don't belong to you goes viral again.
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What Might We Learn From It? And M&Ms are getting a more progressive and inclusive rebranding for the
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year 2022 with this final piece in place. Utopia awaits. We'll talk about all that and much more
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So it's been a couple of days since my episode of Dr. Phil aired, and I've read and heard plenty of
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reactions to my appearance and to the discussion that we had on the show. And many of these reactions
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have been quite angry. But the one thing I have not heard from the angry side, from my critics,
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is any sort of counter-argument. They're all quite sure that I'm wrong, and not just wrong,
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but hateful and vile and evil and dangerous. And yet none of them, I mean, not a single one,
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has been able to explain why. They especially are unable or unwilling to answer the question that
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has provoked much of this outrage, which of course is, what is a woman? Instead, the left,
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finding itself unable to answer my arguments, has directed its ire at Dr. Phil for allowing me to make
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the arguments in the first place. The Daily Wire has cataloged some of these responses.
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One of them comes from Matt Bernstein, the social media influencer with a significant following,
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who goes by he, they pronouns, by the way, because sometimes he's a man, other times he's two men,
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So, truly, F Dr. Phil for this. Why would you invite a non-binary person onto national television
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just to be humiliated by an outspoken transphobe? Who is this for? Who does this help? Man, F you,
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Dr. Phil. Another guy who works in media, Hunter Lacey, tweeted, Dr. Phil is always stirring the pot.
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This is so disrespectful. Why does this man still have a show? Instead of letting the actual queer
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voices speak, he's doing mental arithmetic to get through his sentence. I am fuming.
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Yes, let the queer voices speak, he says, to which the rest of us may wonder when exactly the queer
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voices ever stopped speaking. I mean, those are by far the loudest voices in our society.
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Let the queer voices speak. When do they shut up? I mean, come on. Meanwhile, drag queen Nicolette
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New Vogue, who was crowned Miss Gay Omaha some years back, by the way, a profound honor, no doubt,
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screeched, dear Dr. Phil, please don't ever live tweet during RuPaul's drag race and act like an
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ally ever again if you're going to have people like Matt Walsh on your show spreading transphobia
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to the masses. Sincerely, the LGBT community and their real allies. Now, I can't fathom what Dr.
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Phil will do with himself now if he's not allowed to live tweet during RuPaul's drag race. I mean,
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some punishments are simply too much to bear. Imara Jones, founder of a trans media company, said this,
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Dr. Phil inviting people on who compare trans people to tomato plants continues the idea that
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we aren't real, which is the basis for the murders and violence against us. Matt Walsh is the pied
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piper of slick dismissiveness, and this show is not what we need. Catherine Caruso, a writer for
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Teen Vogue, wrote, you know, Dr. Phil has done a lot of crappy things, but having Matt Walsh on to call
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trans people delusional and mentally ill to their faces is a new low, especially since he frames it as a
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debate with two valid opposing arguments when it's really just transphobia. Well, Catherine,
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would you rather I say it behind their backs? I mean, you're right that I'll say all this to
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anybody's face. I don't change my opinion or my tone or approach based on the audience.
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My view is my view, and it'll be the same all the time in front of anybody on any platform in
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any context. That's called being honest. In any case, you get the idea. This is the basic tenor of the
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response to my appearance. Others called Dr. Phil a scumbag and a coward for allowing a bigot,
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a transphobe, and a white supremacist, by the way, to access his platform. Apparently,
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you're a white supremacist now if you criticize leftist gender ideology. Many of the criticisms
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were similar to this from some guy named Brant Brick L, who tweeted, and F Dr. Phil for having
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Matt Walsh on the show and giving him a platform to attack the trans community under the guise of equal
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debate. There is no debating someone's right to exist. This is a common theme, or rather straw man,
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claiming that the debate was over the existence of people who identify as trans, and that I was on
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the side either claiming that trans people do not exist at all, or else they do exist but should not
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be allowed to. Which, by the way, that's not the point. We all acknowledge, I think everyone
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acknowledges that people who identify as trans exist. We know that. In fact, that's why we're
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having this discussion. The real question is, does biological sex exist? And if so, what are the
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implications of that? Of course, LGBT media got in on the action, outrage action as well. The website
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Queerty has this headline, Dr. Phil's show yesterday was a transphobic train wreck, and we'd only
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know where to begin. The article explains that Dr. Phil was now on the hot seat for bringing me on
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his show because, quote, to anyone who knows him, it should come as no surprise that Walsh came ready
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to spew transphobic vitriol. He has a long history of transphobia, having authored the children's book
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Johnny the Walrus, which compares being transgender to pretending to be a walrus. He also has a history
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of homophobia, having called Pride Month a celebration of vanity, well it is, and denounced adoption by
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same-sex couples. He's also defended the vigilante actions of Kyle Rittenhouse. He opposes abortion,
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imagine that, and claims that doing yoga is anti-Christian. I mean, it is, among other things.
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I appreciate Queerty, by the way, cataloging all of my right opinions like that, especially
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mentioning my number one LGBT book, Johnny the Walrus, which is available at johnnythewalrus.com
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right now and go pick up a copy. LGBTQ Nation was similarly incensed. Their headline, Dr. Phil
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invited anti-transgender activists to spread hate on TV, and it's painful to watch. Not painful for me,
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I quite enjoy it. The article claims that my job, my job, quote, depends on generating media attention
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for my anti-LGBTQ antics. And that is true, I admit. I actually have a little, you know, behind the
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scenes, behind the curtain thing here. I have a certain number of anti-LGBTQ antics that I have to
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engage in each week contractually. It's written in the contract. And then on Fridays, I have a
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meeting with the bosses where they review my anti-LGBTQ antics catalog to see if I met my quota.
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Now, fortunately, if I fall short, some weeks I do, I can make up for that by oppressing some other
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marginalized group. And this is how it works in conservative media. The left's suspicions are
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totally accurate. But what about the rest of this? What about this idea that the other side was
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trapped, humiliated by the simple fact that I was allowed to sit on a stage with them and speak to
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them? Well, we see here again, the incredible fragility of the leftist position, especially on
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the issue of sex and gender. They like to accuse others of being fragile, fragile masculinity, they call
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it. But what's more fragile than having to insulate yourself from any direct challenge to
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your worldview? If these people were confident in their position, they'd be bragging that I was the
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one who was humiliated, right? They'd be patting my good friend Addison on the back and giving the
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woke professor a high five and congratulating them for defeating the transphobe in open rhetorical
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combat. But you notice, interestingly, how even the people on their side are not attempting to claim
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that their side was victorious. Nobody's saying that, not even them. Instead, they retreat into
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their victimhood fortress, flinging insults from behind the walls. You know, whenever there's an NFL
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game, you know, I can always tell who lost even without watching the game or checking the score
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because the losing team is the one whose fans are on social media complaining about the refs.
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And something similar is happening here, except in this case, the losing side is complaining,
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not just about the refs, but that the game was allowed to happen in the first place.
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So imagine if the Lions, you know, lost to the Vikings and then Lions fans responded by saying it
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was unfair and traumatic to put the Lions on the same field as the Vikings to begin with.
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That is how unfathomably weak and empty and irrational the left's position is on everything,
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really, but especially on this. Their side collapses like a Jenga tower when it's directly
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challenged. And yet it has won the culture anyway because it's so rarely challenged.
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They use emotional blackmail, intimidation, and coercion so effectively that they've managed to
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conquer civilization with an army that turns to dust the moment you turn around and face it.
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Their gamble is that you never will. You'll just continue running away in retreat,
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afraid of the loud noises they're making, but never calling their bluff.
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Well, I think it's time to stop running. Let's get to our five headlines.
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Before we get to the headlines, I got to mention, because this is way more important. My wife put me
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on blast last night, as the kids say, or did say at one point. She was tweeting attacking me. This is
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like while we were in bed. I thought she was asleep, but she's over there persecuting me on the internet.
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This is what she tweeted. She says, Matt keeps our bedroom so cold at night. It's like the tundra.
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I may have to wear an overcoat to bed. Isn't this the age old debate between husbands and wives?
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Now, this is how pervasive cancel culture has become, that it's even made its way
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into my marital bed. But this started a whole conversation about the correct temperature for
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the bedroom and the house and who should control it. By the way, the right answer, there is a right
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answer. The right answer is that bedroom should never be above 62 degrees. The rest of the house
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should never go above 65. Really, it's best to have both below 60, ideally. That's especially true
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at night when you're sleeping. So I set the house very cold. I also have an overhead fan
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and a box fan blowing directly on me because the best way to sleep is to just be on the verge of
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hypothermia the entire time I've found. But here's the thing. This is an important discussion that
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especially you women in the audience could benefit from hearing because I know women often complain
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about being cold. And so there's this controversy about who should get to determine the temperature.
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So here it is. Two things. First of all, I get to control the temperature because I'm the warmest
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and the warmest one should decide, not the hottest. Not like the hottest in terms of appearance because
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then I would, by that litmus test, I would never win. But the warmest, like physically. Because there's only
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so many, if you want to, if you're warm and you want to regulate your temperature, there's only so
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much you can do without adjusting the environment. There's only so many layers you can take off.
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This is especially true in public, like at work or at the dentist in the waiting room or something.
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If you're cold at work, you can wear as many sweaters and jackets as you want. You can put on
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earmuffs and mittens if you want. That's not an HR violation. I can only take off so much before
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someone calls the police. So that's why I should get to decide what the temperature is. But there's
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also a second point. And this is the more important point. And it's going to be tough to hear this.
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But I'm the man. And so as the man, as men, we have the special right and responsibility to be in
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control of the temperature in any building that we're in. Why? Well, because, and don't take this the
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wrong way. But women, you're too fickle to be in control of the thermostat. Same goes for the volume
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on TV because you can't make up your mind. I'll be watching TV with my wife. And suddenly after 47
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minutes, she'll shout, it's too loud. Turn it down. Getting mad at me for a volume that was acceptable
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to both of us for the better part of an hour. And now all of a sudden it's a problem. And then I'll turn
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it down. And what happens five minutes later? She says, I can't hear it. Can you turn it up?
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Similar thing happens with a thermostat. So if she controlled it, it would be adjusted every 15
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minutes until our HVAC system exploded. With me as the man, there is consistency. You know that the
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house is always going to be cold enough to cause frostbite. You know the TV is always going to be
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loud enough to rupture your eardrums. It may not be pleasant. It may not be comfortable. It may not be
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reasonable. It may not be safe, but it's consistent. It's steady. It's reliable. Okay.
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And furthermore, Ephesians 5, wives submit to your husband as to the Lord. I've used that on my wife
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too with the thermostat conversation. Doesn't always go well. All right. We'll start with this. March for
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life. March for life is currently underway. Started at about noon in DC. And a couple of
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things that you always know with the March for life. And the first is that you're not going to
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hear much about it from, from corporate media, because there's just no way for them. They have
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no choice, but to acknowledge it because it's, it's right in their backyard. It's right outside
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their window. There are hundreds of thousands of people marching and it's been this way for over
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40 years, every single year consistently. And so they have no choice, but to at least acknowledge
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it, but they're going to acknowledge it as quickly as they can. Now, as we know, of course you put,
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500,000 or a million pro-lifers at the March for life marching, and they're going to get a five
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second mention, you know, um, but you take a fraction of that crowd say like 50 and they're
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marching for BLM or whatever, some leftist thing. And, and, uh, that's suddenly front page headline
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news. So we know that's how it goes. Um, the attendance will always be underestimated. In fact,
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I was just reading an article. I can't remember which, which, uh, which, uh, outlet it was, but
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saying that, uh, you know, organizers estimate that, uh, typically there's around 50,000 people
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attending the March for life. Yeah. I don't know, uh, 50,000, you know, multiply that by 10, perhaps
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hundreds of thousands of people come to the March for life every single year. And what makes that so
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impressive is number one, that it's every single year. This is by far the largest, um, annual
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political rally in American history. There's never been anything like it. Now there have been other
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marches where you have one particular March that draws a greater crowd than the March for life does
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on average, but no one has been able to sustain that for anywhere near as long as the March for life
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has again, into, into the fourth, well into the fourth decade. So the attendance is always going
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to be, um, always going to be under underestimated and they're not going to show you, uh, or they're
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going to be very sparing in showing you images from the crowd, you know, and they're going to try
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to, the other thing they'll do is they'll report it as, and I guarantee you're going to see headlines
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like this, uh, something like people on, uh, protesters on both sides of the abortion debate
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show up in Washington, DC. Yeah. Protesters on both sides because there's, there's 500,000
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pro-lifers and, um, you know, three pro-abortion people. And then that, that, that equates to
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protesters on both sides, but they're not going to show you the crowd where they're going to be very
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sparing and what they are very selective in what they show because what they don't want you to
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notice is that the March for life is very, very young. It's a very young crowd. Now I would, having
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been to the March for life many times, I would estimate that certainly the vast majority are
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certainly under 40 and many are under 30, even under 20. So this is a very young crowd. The pro-life
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movement is a young movement. And also though, I hesitate to point this out because it sounds like
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I'm trying to appeal to the left on their own terms, which, uh, which I'm very against doing,
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but I will mention, I will say that in fact, it's a very diverse crowd as well.
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Actually diverse because it simply is, you go to the March for life, really any, any pro-life event,
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but especially the March for life. Cause you've got people from all over the country going
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and, um, all different kinds of people from different walks of life are, are there because
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as it turns out, you know, you don't need to be an old white conservative. Not that there's anything
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wrong with being an old white conservative, but you don't have to be that to believe that it's not
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okay to kill babies. This is a position that is appealing to, um, people of all, of all stripes.
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And it's, this is another example of the kind of debate that the left doesn't want to have.
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I mean, how often have you even seen, you can certainly turn on cable news and you're going
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to hear pro-abortion talking points and you're going to hear abortion discussed, but how often
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on a mainstream platform have you seen that debate really happen where the pro-abortion side is
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actually challenged. Very similar to the gender issue. It doesn't happen because they know they
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can't really defend it. They know it's an, it's an indefensible position. It's an, it's indefensible
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scientifically. The idea that these, uh, that these unborn babies aren't human or they don't count as
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people scientifically makes no sense. I mean, logically we've always known that the babies in the womb
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are P our people and our human beings and our living. But as technology progresses and we're
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able to see more and more what's actually happening in the womb during present pregnancy,
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um, it only serves to each day further vindicate and while invalidating further, further vindicate
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the pro-life side while invalidating the pro-abortion side. So they can't engage with it scientifically
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and they can't really engage with it, with it morally either. Because when it comes down to it,
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ultimately you are arguing for killing innocent people. You have one side which says it's never
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okay to kill an innocent and defenseless person. That's why we're against abortion. And the other side
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who says, you know, sometimes it is okay. But only if that innocent and defenseless person is a baby.
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So, um, that's the March for Life. We'll go here. Joe Biden has really gotten himself into another
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bind, another pickle by, by openly claiming that our elections are rigged and illegitimate after a
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year of condemning Trump for saying exactly the same thing. So it's been a bit of a PR nightmare.
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And, uh, that's why the White House has trotted out their secret weapon to mop up the mess. They're,
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they're smooth talking damage control expert, Kamala Harris. So let's see how she handles
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questioning on this issue. Let's talk about another comment the president made. He openly
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cast doubt on whether the 2022 midterm elections would be legitimate. He said, it all depends,
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which is astonishing to hear a president question whether our elections will be legitimate. We've
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heard it before, but not from this president. Is he really concerned that, that we may not have
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fair and free elections? The president has been consistent on this issue and the issue at hand,
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the issue I was there last night, uh, in the chamber of the Senate. And the issue is that there are two
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bills, the John Lewis voting rights act and the freedom to vote act that have been the, the solution
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that has been offered to address the fact that around our country, states have put in place laws
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that are purposely making it more difficult for the American people to vote. Okay. So no, no answer
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there. Um, are the elections actually going to be free and fair and legitimate or not? And, um,
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we heard the word astonishing there. The only thing astonishing going on here, because it's not really
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astonished, it's not, it's not actually astonishing to have Joe Biden questioning the legitimacy of the
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elections because we know that he is a soulless, mindless, um, goon. So that's not astonishing.
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The astonishing thing is that the media, or it's might seem astonishing at first until we understand
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what's really happening here, but the media is actually taking them to task for this.
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Same thing happened when you watch the press conference. However, much of that you could
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stomach watching the media, they were actually asking some real questions, a few anyway.
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And so let's watch a little bit more of this as the, um, anchor continues to actually press her
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on, on this question. Listen, does he think now that these bills haven't been passed, that the 22
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midterms won't be legitimate or fair or free? Let's not conflate issues. So what we are looking
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at and, and the topic of so much debate last night was that we as America cannot afford to allow this
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blatant erosion of our democracy. And in particular, the right of all Americans who are eligible to vote,
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to have access to the ballot unfettered. That is the topic of the conversation. And let's not be
00:23:38.700
distracted by the political gamesmanship when what is truly at stake are, are, are, are issues like
00:23:45.760
whether Americans with disability have the opportunity to vote by mail.
00:23:51.800
Hmm. Um, yeah, again, only astonishing thing is that the media is challenging,
00:23:58.940
actually challenging her on this. And why are they doing that? Well, I think the answer is
00:24:04.280
that, uh, they, they want the Biden administration gone. They want Biden gone. Um, they want him
00:24:10.820
primaried. They, they know he's going to lose if he actually, if he actually runs again in, uh, in 2024,
00:24:17.500
which if, if he's physically still on earth, he will because he's power obsessed and power hungry.
00:24:23.980
Look at all these people. And this is all he cares about. That's the whole reason that he ran for
00:24:27.280
office at the age of 78 anyway. Um, but they want, they want them gone. They want, they want the,
00:24:32.480
this administration gone. They want someone else put in there. And so they, they are actually
00:24:36.340
for totally self-serving reasons. That's what we have to understand. It's not because they care
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about integrity. It's not because they care about ethics or they have any real passion for doing real
00:24:46.600
journalism just for, for their own reasons, self-interest and their own ideological reasons.
00:24:54.760
They want Biden gone. So I think we're going to see probably more scenes like this. Um, moving on,
00:24:59.880
you know, you know, Democrat politicians are sometimes accused of being out of touch, elitist,
00:25:04.020
narcissistic. That's, that's not really fair. I mean, listen to this truly humble moment from
00:25:10.040
Nancy Pelosi yesterday. Listen to this. Here's the thing I say to my members on a regular basis
00:25:17.560
when we gather in caucus and as you know, sometimes it's hybrid these days, but anytime we have gathered
00:25:25.820
in caucus when we're actually virtually or hybrid, I've said to them under this roof, figuratively or
00:25:33.760
actually is the greatest collection of intellect, integrity, and imagination for doing the right
00:25:44.320
thing for the American people. I have great confidence in the integrity of my members.
00:25:51.860
They are remarkable. So when people talk about, well, somebody might do this and somebody,
00:25:58.920
I, I, I think I, I trust our members. If in fact, we should have severe penalties for delay and
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reporting on stock, then do that. I've said to the, the house administration committee, review all the
00:26:12.800
bills that are coming in and see which ones where, where the support is in our caucus.
00:26:19.640
We heard more of that than we needed to. Uh, the greatest collection of integrity and intelligence
00:26:25.860
in the world is in among the Democrats in Congress. If that's true, then we're, we are absolutely doomed.
00:26:35.400
And in fact, we are doomed, but that's still not true. You could find a greater collection of
00:26:39.840
intelligence and integrity, just going to the, you know, going to the DMV or waiting in line at
00:26:44.520
Walmart. Um, the, the, the bars is very, very low there, but this is actually how this is a rare
00:26:50.380
moment. She claims they have integrity and they don't, but there are moments of honesty, at least
00:26:55.400
if unintentional, this is a real rare moment of honesty where she shows how they see themselves
00:27:01.820
and how they see everybody else. They really believe that they are better than the rest of us.
00:27:05.880
That comes as no surprise. It's just pretty rare that you hear a politician actually come out and
00:27:11.580
say, we're better than all of you. Amazing. Finally, Joe Biden has, um, a plan to convince everyone.
00:27:21.340
It seems like he had the worst first year of any president in American history, which is not
00:27:26.480
hyperbole, but merely an observation. Everything is demonstrably worse by every category, by every
00:27:32.440
measure. Everything is worse now. And, um, specifically because of what this administration
00:27:38.580
has done. Um, but how are they going to convince people that it's not, that the truth is not what
00:27:45.560
they see staring them in the face? Well, what do you do? You bring in Tom Hanks to narrate. You have,
00:27:50.180
you have a little video, Tom Hanks narration, some inspirational music. We'll play some of this.
00:27:53.900
Keep the mic open. Cause I don't know how long, how much of this I can actually stomach.
00:27:56.460
We'll have to cut it off, but let's watch some of Tom Hanks convincing us that actually this past
00:28:02.280
year of your life was amazing. For there was always light. If only we're brave enough to see it.
00:28:14.340
If only we're brave enough, brave enough to live through two of the most difficult years many of
00:28:22.480
us can remember. Brave enough to pull ourselves up again and again. America is the home of the
00:28:29.640
brave. It's why we keep getting up no matter how many times we get knocked down. Like with our economy,
00:28:35.940
it isn't all the way back, but it's getting stronger. We may be entering year three of a pandemic none of us
00:28:42.000
wanted or expected, but we're moving. I was the first person to get the vaccine
00:28:47.300
in the whole country. And now how many people are vaccinated over 200 million, right? That's what
00:28:54.880
keeps me going that I can feel the change. Restaurants have opened their doors and shops
00:29:00.580
and businesses are buzzing again. This is bravery. Showing the bravery of Americans by people wearing
00:29:05.460
masks outside. Okay. Shut up, Tom. Um, even Tom Hanks can't do it. Maybe they should try Morgan
00:29:11.940
Freeman. You got to bring in the big guns now. Uh, I mean, you know, oftentimes all it takes is a Tom
00:29:17.520
Hanks narration or Morgan Freeman narration and some inspirational music in the background
00:29:20.600
to convince, convince anybody of anything, but, um, that's, that's not good. Now, of course he's,
00:29:25.240
he's talking about the qualities of the American people. And, uh, even if what he said was true,
00:29:31.420
that wouldn't speak at all to this administration, but unfortunately, I mean, there are plenty of
00:29:38.680
brave people in America, but, um, collectively, you know, it's, it's, it's hard to look at the last
00:29:47.680
two years and give us all as a group credit for bravery and courage. And ironically, that video kind
00:29:55.740
of demonstrated why talking about the bravery and courage of Americans, and then showing a bunch of
00:30:01.340
cowardly, paranoid hypochondriacs wearing masks outside along with children who are being forced
00:30:08.240
to wear them because of the paranoid, cowardly hypochondriacs in their lives. So I'm still not
00:30:14.540
convinced somehow. All right, let's play another clip. Now this clip went viral yesterday, though.
00:30:18.120
It's, uh, it's actually from way back in 2013. It's Melissa Harris Perry. If you remember her,
00:30:22.520
I don't, but maybe you do. She was on MSNBC, uh, back a few years ago. And back then she said this
00:30:31.040
now what's well, we'll play it first and then we'll talk about it again. This is, this is several
00:30:36.020
years old, but I think, I think the fact that it's old, there's an important point, um, to be made
00:30:41.420
about that, but let's play it first. We have never invested as much in public education as we should
00:30:47.440
have because we've always had kind of a private notion of children. Your kid is yours and totally
00:30:52.420
your responsibility. We haven't had a very collective notion of these are our children.
00:30:57.440
So part of it is we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their
00:31:01.300
parents or kids belong to their families and recognize that kids belong to whole communities.
00:31:05.400
Once it's everybody's responsibility and not just the households, then we start making better
00:31:10.060
investments. Your kid, we have to break down this, this private idea of children. Kids belong to the
00:31:18.240
entire community. And as always, just like when they, the public and public school doesn't really
00:31:23.400
mean public. It means specifically the state. Uh, this is government school. And so when she says
00:31:28.880
community, she doesn't mean community. She means the government. That's, that's a, those words are
00:31:32.980
synonyms as far as she's concerned. The amazing thing though, is, um, this is in 2013 and it, this was not
00:31:39.400
like something she said off the cuff on, on one of her shows. It's not something that she was caught
00:31:45.840
saying, you know, it wasn't like a hot mic moment. This was a, a promo. They, they, they put this as a,
00:31:53.220
as a promo and they ran it as a commercial for the network. They were so proud of it saying your kids
00:32:01.800
don't belong to you. So what we can take away from this is that they, the left has been working to
00:32:08.580
take away parental rights for a long time. And they've been very open about it. The only difference
00:32:15.740
is that recently much of the right has finally noticed. Now there are some of us who have been
00:32:23.840
screaming about this for years, you know, uh, since that Melissa Harris Perry video and before,
00:32:29.520
especially people who homeschool, the homeschool community, um, is, is quite aware of,
00:32:36.360
you know, the government's and the left's attitude towards people who take charge of their own
00:32:42.520
kids education. But this, all this shows is that, um, this recent emphasis on parental rights,
00:32:50.100
all that is, that is a product of conservatives finally waking from their stupor on this issue.
00:32:57.660
It is not a product. It is not that the left in the last year has been suddenly more aggressive
00:33:03.300
in going after parental rights. If anything, they've been a little bit more subtle about it
00:33:08.740
with some exceptions, you know, Terry McAuliffe saying parents shouldn't decide what their kids
00:33:14.720
are taught. That that's, that's another good example because he said that off the cuff
00:33:18.500
and you could tell he immediately regretted saying it out loud after he said it go back about 10 years
00:33:24.700
ago. And they were saying this stuff's scripted openly in commercials. So this has been happening
00:33:31.940
for a very, very long time. And for the record, of course, no, uh, my kids do not belong to the
00:33:37.240
community. They belong to me. Um, not as property, not like in the way that you'd say your car belongs
00:33:45.460
to you, but in the sense that it is my sacred and solemn responsibility to care for them.
00:33:53.080
And also I care about my children more than anybody else. My wife and I care about our
00:34:00.080
children more than anybody else does. What is one of the reasons? There are a lot of reasons why
00:34:04.920
I will not, um, surrender my kids to the community or rely on the community to care for them.
00:34:11.180
A lot of reasons. Uh, one is I don't trust the quote community, which again means government
00:34:18.840
to take care of my kids. I don't believe in the, in their values. Um, I'm not going to entrust my
00:34:28.440
children to be morally formed by the quote community. But then also it's because I recognize
00:34:36.380
that the community referring both to the government and the actual community doesn't care about my
00:34:44.480
kids the way that I do. You can say all you want. Oh, we all, they're all our kids. No, but you,
00:34:52.320
you actually don't care about my kids that much because they're not yours. I mean, you might care
00:34:57.240
about my kids in theory, in the sense that you care about all kids and you want everyone to have a
00:35:03.120
happy and nice life. But I wake up every day and my kids are the first thing that I think about.
00:35:14.600
Right. This is a, this is a constant presence in my life, constantly at the front of my mind.
00:35:19.960
As parents, as a parent, I live every day taking care of my kids. I've structured my life around
00:35:25.320
that, around my kids specifically, not around kids as a general concept, but my kids. So I know
00:35:31.720
them and care about them more than anybody else. So that's another really good reason why I'm not
00:35:40.640
going to surrender them to the community. It's also, it's also a really good reason to take care
00:35:46.580
of your kids' education. If you can do it and start homeschooling, because you know your kid
00:35:52.560
better than anybody and you care about them. You send them to school and, um, you know, there,
00:35:58.260
there are plenty of really good teachers. There's a lot of bad ones, but there are plenty of really
00:36:01.380
good ones, but even the really good ones, your kid is their job. And if they're good,
00:36:08.220
then they do care about making sure your kid has a, has a good education, but they can only afford
00:36:11.460
to care so much. And in most public schools, they've got, you know, 30 other kids in class
00:36:16.560
and that's just one class. So your kid is one in this assembly line that they care about as much as
00:36:22.340
they can. It's just not much. And they certainly don't know your kid like you do. All right. One
00:36:30.120
other clip I wanted to play. This is a, this is account, uh, the account woke preacher clips on
00:36:34.440
Twitter, kind of like the libs of Tik TOK, but for Christians, uh, dug up this clip of Simon Woodman.
00:36:40.140
He's, um, of London's Bloomsbury central Baptist church at some kind of panel discussion, talking
00:36:45.900
about Jesus and, uh, informing us that apparently Jesus, maybe you didn't know this, was transgender.
00:36:53.060
I think Jesus, um, transgenders himself on a number of occasions. Um, I think, you know, just,
00:36:59.480
just a little phrase that Jesus is lamenting over Jerusalem, longing to gather Jerusalem as a mother
00:37:04.940
hen gathers her chicks. Um, I think if you look at, um, the foot washing from John's gospel,
00:37:10.960
foot washing elsewhere in both old and new Testament that it's consistently done by, by
00:37:16.540
women. And yet Jesus takes that on. People often cast that as being the servant's role. It was the
00:37:21.700
woman's role. Uh, and Jesus does it and becomes the woman at that point. So transgender is a verb now
00:37:29.080
too. Jesus transgendered himself. I play that clip because it perfectly captures how transgender ideology
00:37:36.540
reinforces gender norms while pretending to deconstruct them. So Jesus becomes the woman by
00:37:46.560
taking on the quote woman's role. But why not just say that Jesus proves that the role is not just a
00:37:54.380
woman's role, which it isn't. Why is it that Jesus's sex changes because of the role rather than saying
00:38:05.340
the role changes because of his sex. You see what I'm saying? What, why it's like when a, when a boy
00:38:13.860
plays with, um, the example I use in Dr. Ville boy plays with a dollhouse, you know, and for, for decades
00:38:20.940
back when the left really did seem to be, and, and, you know, the feminists were more in control of
00:38:26.580
gender ideology back then. And so there was this emphasis on breaking down gender roles and everything.
00:38:30.720
And so they would have said back then that a boy plays with a dollhouse. And, uh, all that does is
00:38:35.460
prove that boys can play with dollhouses and it's not just a girl thing. Okay. So they, the, um, this
00:38:40.820
idea that dollhouses are just for girls is an artificial social construct. And so this boy is
00:38:45.520
helping to break it down by playing with a dollhouse. Well, now they say that when the boy plays with a
00:38:49.960
dollhouse, it's an indication that he's actually a girl. So you are reinforcing that stereotype.
00:38:55.720
And by him engaging in that activity, you know, play, playing that role, it actually changes him
00:39:03.820
rather than him changing the role or the nature of the role, the role changes the nature of him.
00:39:11.100
And so things have been flipped around exactly backwards, upside down.
00:39:16.300
Perfect example of it there. Let's get out of the comment section.
00:39:19.720
Who makes Twitter mob fly off the handle with rage?
00:39:25.720
All right. Uh, dailywire.com slash sweet baby comments. If you want to leave a video comments
00:39:39.000
and, uh, I have not seen these yet, but we're just going to, um, I entrusted McKenna to compile
00:39:45.640
the video comments. So blame her if these are not the good ones. Let's, uh, let's watch.
00:39:50.180
Hello to the handsome and brilliant sweet daddy Walsh. My name is Rachel and I'm from Brighton,
00:39:55.380
Michigan. I just wanted to share a proud parenting moment with you that I had this week. My nine-year-old
00:40:01.320
daughter Lacey came home the other day from school and said that a boy in her class was wearing a t-shirt
00:40:06.080
with a panda on it. Lacey made the appropriate comment, pandas shouldn't exist. This really threw
00:40:12.120
her fourth grade classmates for a loop. And they all started asking her what she had against pandas.
00:40:16.920
And, you know, they were so cute and why didn't she like them? Fortunately, being a junior member
00:40:22.400
of the sweet baby gang, she was under no obligation to respond. Just wanted you to know that I am doing
00:40:27.760
my part to indoctrinate the next generation. Keep up the great work. SBG for life.
00:40:33.020
That almost brought a tear to my eye. That's amazing. And the fact that not just that we're
00:40:40.300
getting the sweet baby gang out there, but that we're spreading the word on these really important
00:40:43.600
issues, like the utter uselessness of pandas, that I think is incredible. The only thing is I would sit
00:40:50.120
down with your daughter and, you know, she has the lines. So she's been indoctrinated into the anti-panda
00:40:57.180
community. But I think the next step is to be able to go out there and evangelize to this position
00:41:06.480
and explain why the pandas are useless. So maybe that's a conversation you could sit down and have
00:41:11.540
with her. But that's wonderful. Let's check out another one. Hello, Mr. Matt Walsh. My name is Ari
00:41:17.880
Ginsberg. I use all pronouns, every single one of them. I must know I have had sleepless nights over this.
00:41:23.900
What is your workout routine? Please tell me. Thank you very much. And sweet baby gang for life.
00:41:31.820
My workout routine? Well, over the last, I'd say six months, my workout routine is, you know,
00:41:38.700
walking up and down steps when I'm putting my kids to bed. That's pretty much what it's what it has
00:41:43.100
been. That's been the entire thing. I don't know why. I do got to get back to the gym and back to
00:41:51.820
working out. But it's as much of a mystery to me as maybe as to you that I'm not 100 pounds heavier.
00:41:59.940
I don't know why I'm not extremely fat. It's not because of any effort on my part. My diet is
00:42:05.840
terrible. I just eat whatever I want. And somehow, and people keep telling me that, you know,
00:42:13.420
eventually your metabolism slows down. So one day I'm just going to balloon. I'm going to come in here
00:42:17.100
one day and be like 350 pounds. It's just going to happen overnight, but it hasn't happened yet. So
00:42:21.580
that's it. Let's watch one more. My sweet, sweet, sweet daddy. I come before you in solidarity in my
00:42:29.280
cold truck, my polka dotted polo. My name is Weston and my pronouns are life, liberty, and the pursuit of
00:42:37.580
proper voting restrictions. My question comes to you around the Catholic faith. I am not Catholic,
00:42:45.080
but I do have several friends that are. Growing up, you had some of your friends that were
00:42:50.220
Catholic in name only and some that were pretty devout. And what I did notice is the friends that
00:42:56.420
are pretty strict with the Catholic faith look at the Pope in the same way that I see the left
00:43:01.860
looked at Dr. Fauci. You know, Fauci says he's the science and the Pope is the faith. So my question
00:43:09.900
to you as a devout Catholic man and cult leader, what is your view on the position of the Pope in
00:43:17.140
the Catholic faith? And how do you as a very conservative minded person uphold the Catholic
00:43:25.120
doctrine, even when the figurehead espouses pretty left leaning ideologies? Thank you, sir.
00:43:32.760
SPG for life. Uh, yeah, well, first of all, I gotta say that, uh, thanks for the comment. And it is,
00:43:40.180
it is, I have discovered with these video comments that, um, the, the sweet daddy Walsh thing, it's,
00:43:45.400
it's a whole other ball game when I can actually see and hear the person calling me that. And it's,
00:43:50.820
it's like an extra element of weirdness, but that's, that's fine. You know, well, I'll get through
00:43:54.880
that part of it. As far as the Pope goes, um, fortunately, and this is, this is something that
00:44:02.520
Catholics were, were constantly having to explain, or at least the Catholics who understand their own
00:44:08.820
faith. And part of the problem is that many Catholics do not. And they're the ones who create
00:44:12.520
this confusion. So I don't blame non-Catholics for not understanding this, but fortunately, um,
00:44:16.480
we are not obligated to agree with the Pope, uh, on his positions on various subjects. Um,
00:44:26.580
you know, the Pope has, has his own views and his own ideas. And I, I happen to think that this Pope
00:44:32.340
is wrong about very many things. I think it's fundamentally wrong in his basic worldview as well.
00:44:38.080
And I'm allowed to think that I'm not required to say anything otherwise. Um, every, the, the Pope's,
00:44:45.980
every pronouncement is not an infallible declaration. Now there is some disagreement
00:44:52.920
among Catholics and theologians about, uh, how many infallible declarations have actually been
00:44:58.300
made by Popes. And there's discussion about how many it is, but however many it is, it's a very small
00:45:04.020
number actually. And, um, so this Pope just kind of speaking off the cuff or even standing up at mass
00:45:11.700
and giving a homily, I am not required to agree with any of it. And I don't, I very much disagree
00:45:16.760
with this Pope on almost everything that he seems to say, uh, at least when it comes to his ideology
00:45:23.280
and his, uh, in his worldview. Um, you know, part, part of the problem is that, because you could
00:45:30.360
always ask, well, have there been Popes in the past who you would have disagreed with just as much?
00:45:36.020
Probably. But the issue is that we, we are now in a position both because of 24 hour media and the
00:45:43.060
internet, and also because of this Pope's, uh, propensity for just babbling. We're in a position
00:45:48.000
to, to constantly hear everything he has to say about everything. He's, he's constantly talking
00:45:53.200
about, about things. He'll be on a plane and just, you know, talking to reporters. And, um,
00:45:59.580
and so he loves to talk and we can hear it. And so we're constantly subjected to, to it,
00:46:06.820
but I, I very much disagree in when that's, and I'm perfectly within my rights as a Catholic to do
00:46:13.100
that. All right. A couple of written comments is from Ryan Listerman says, Matt delivered such
00:46:17.460
savage mic drops. His opponents had to change their pronouns to was, were. That's good. That might be my
00:46:24.880
favorite comment of all time. Incredibly well done. We should send you a prize. Can we do that?
00:46:30.320
Send him a t-shirt or something? Maybe if we can, we'll send you one. Uh, Iron Man says the fact that
00:46:35.360
they were traumatized by a debate is a hundred percent proof they need mental help. Um, I actually
00:46:41.320
don't think it's, it's proof of that. I think you let them off the hook by saying that they need,
00:46:46.760
they need mental help or whatever. Um, I think it's, it is evidence of the flimsiness and fragility,
00:46:53.260
as we were talking about of their worldview and the fact that they are aware that it's flimsy and
00:46:57.900
fragile. David says, why is Matt so obsessed with the transgender issue? The lady doth protest too
00:47:06.380
much, me thinks. Sorry, I meant gentlemen. Somebody needs to check the back of Matt's closet for panties,
00:47:12.380
bras, and corsets. So what are you implying? So I talk about it, uh, because I'm secretly trans is
00:47:18.460
what you're saying. Well, you got me. It's true. I am actually, I, I, uh, you're, you're, but you,
00:47:24.340
you've, you got it backwards though. Cause I, I'm, I'm a woman originally and I underwent
00:47:28.500
the most convincing transition of all time. You got me. It's a hundred percent true. And now that my
00:47:35.120
secret is out, I have the social credit to say whatever I want about the trans issue and you
00:47:41.320
can't criticize me. Transphobe. So checkmate. As the beloved author of the bestselling children's
00:47:47.580
book, LGBTQ plus children's book, I should say Johnny, the walrus. I am now a very important
00:47:52.280
voice in the transgender conversation. That's why I was invited to Dr. Phil to discuss these
00:47:55.980
most important issues with experts who could not even tell me what a woman was. Here's a clip of my
00:48:00.640
enlightening experience. That's a question I would like to throw out to other members of the panel
00:48:05.380
actually, because just like the four-year-old can't answer what is a girl. Well, this is one of the
00:48:10.000
problems with this left-wing gender ideology is that no one who espouses it can even tell you what
00:48:15.260
these words mean. Like, what is a woman? Can you tell me what a woman is? No, I can't. Because it's
00:48:21.620
not for me to say. Womanhood looks different for everybody. What do you define a woman as? An adult
00:48:27.620
human female. And what does a female mean? How do you define a female? Someone with female reproductive
00:48:33.500
organs. Okay. Someone who's, you know, here's the thing. When you're a female, it goes right down to
00:48:38.460
your bones, your DNA. So that's why if someone dies, we could dig up their bones a hundred years from
00:48:44.420
now. We have no idea what they believed in their head, but we can tell what sex they were because
00:48:48.580
it's in, it's down in, it's, it's ingrained in every fiber of their being. Interesting. So I'm trying
00:48:53.740
to understand your definition is that a woman is someone who is female, you said, right? Correct.
00:48:59.120
There's a biological female. So what happens if we have maybe someone who is female, identifies as a
00:49:04.760
woman, right? You know, cisgender woman, right? As you explained, as you just explained, maybe doesn't
00:49:09.300
have the ability to reproduce. Maybe doesn't have those organs that you're talking about that are
00:49:14.320
reproductive organs. I have answered the question. You stood up here and said, trans women are women.
00:49:19.820
Yes. Tell me what you mean. What is a woman? Womanhood is something that, just as Ethan explained,
00:49:24.300
I cannot define because I am not myself. But you used the word. So what did you mean when you said
00:49:27.720
trans women are women if you don't know what it means? Right. So here's the thing. So I do not define
00:49:32.320
what a woman is because I do not identify as a woman. Womanhood is something that is an umbrella term.
00:49:41.140
People who identify as a woman. Identify as what? As a woman. What is that?
00:49:47.740
What's to each their own. Each woman, each man, each person is going to have a different relation
00:49:52.700
with their own gender identity and define it differently. And so trans women are women too.
00:49:58.040
Okay. And you want to... Hold on. Hold on. You want to reduce...
00:50:02.260
You won't even tell me what the word means, though. So that's the problem. You want to reduce women,
00:50:05.520
you want to reduce men down to maybe just their genetics, our genitals, our chromosomes, right?
00:50:10.260
That's what you're saying. What you want to do is appropriate women. You want to appropriate
00:50:15.120
womanhood and turn it into basically a costume that could be worn.
00:50:18.840
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at Amazon. Now let's go to our daily cancellation.
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Well, the world rejoiced yesterday when candy maker Mars Incorporated announced that it would be
00:51:52.960
rebranding M&Ms to make them more inclusive and progressive for the year 2022 as part of their,
00:51:58.220
quote, global commitment to creating a world where everyone feels they belong and society is
00:52:03.340
inclusive. This is one of the final pieces necessary to usher in an age of harmony and
00:52:08.400
tranquility. Now all we need is for the patriarchal gender essentialist Mike and Ikes and the violent
00:52:13.520
and triggering pop rocks to finally evolve as well. We are on the cusp of utopia. So close I can taste it.
00:52:21.600
Tastes sweet and has 35 grams of sugar per serving. Nobody expected that civilization could be saved.
00:52:28.220
by junk food brands. But they've been at the front lines in the battle against bigotry for a long
00:52:33.220
time actually. It began two years ago when Gushers tweeted in support of BLM. They tweeted,
00:52:38.140
Gushers wouldn't be Gushers without the black community and your voices. We're working with
00:52:42.580
Fruit by the Foot on creating space to amplify that. We see you. We stand with you. Prior to this
00:52:49.200
statement, most people had never thought about the intersectional relationship between fruit snacks
00:52:53.520
and racial justice. But the dream team of Fruit by the Foot and Gushers changed all of that.
00:52:58.940
Junk food brands have been leading the charge ever since and brands in general have remained at the
00:53:02.880
forefront in the struggle for tolerance and equality. We talked yesterday about about Audi's ad promoting
00:53:08.120
gender sensitive language. Every day another brand steps up. The brands are our guiding light. The
00:53:13.260
brands will show us the way. The brands will save us. Or so we hope. But sadly,
00:53:19.740
as I read more about M&M's alleged efforts to promote inclusion and diversity, I found myself
00:53:26.000
unsatisfied. Come to think of it, we even need to ask some questions about Gushers.
00:53:30.700
Whatever happened to the space that it was supposed to make to amplify black voices? That was two years
00:53:35.320
ago. I have not heard any black voice amplified by a fruit snack in the two years since. I've seen
00:53:40.880
black people buy fruit snacks. I've seen them eat fruit snacks. I haven't seen the fruit snack do anything
00:53:44.980
for them though. The fruit snack just sits there passively waiting to be consumed. Its silence is
00:53:50.580
deafening. Its silence is violence. What about M&M's? Well, the VP of the company appeared on the
00:53:56.380
website Cheddar News, where all important news is reported, to talk about the brand's mission and
00:54:00.880
vision for the year ahead. Here she is explaining how M&M's, she hopes, will spark a movement and change
00:54:07.460
the world. M&M's is on a mission to create a world where everyone feels they belong. We're wanting to
00:54:15.080
start a movement to remind everyone that despite our differences, we have an incredibly powerful
00:54:21.060
thing in common as a community, which is the power of fun. It's actually a reaffirmation, a concrete
00:54:27.760
commitment to what we've always believed as a brand, that the power of fun is the most important way
00:54:34.280
that we can help people feel included and increase that sense of belonging. And as you mentioned,
00:54:39.860
as a reflection of that, you're going to see our brand evolve in its look and feel to reflect a
00:54:45.300
dynamic and progressive world that we're living in. Sounds promising. There's nothing lofty about
00:54:52.540
a brand of candy promising to fundamentally change and reshape society. In fact, historians agree that
00:54:56.700
a great number of the major revolutions in human history have been sparked by different types of
00:55:00.620
candies. The Reese's Revolution of 1645, just one example. But let's listen to their actual plan,
00:55:07.860
because here's where things go off the rails a little bit, I think. How will M&M's be more
00:55:11.840
inclusive exactly? Listen. So as an iconic brand that's been around for actually over 80 years,
00:55:18.340
it's really important that we're evolving over time as well. And one of the most powerful ways we can do
00:55:23.940
that is through our beloved characters. You'll see them as we've done a deep look at them both inside,
00:55:30.080
as well as out in terms of reflecting new looks, personalities and backstories. For example,
00:55:36.980
green, you'll see her better reflect empowerment and confidence and be known for more than just her
00:55:43.240
shoes. You're going to see green and brown together being a supporting force for women who are throwing
00:55:49.340
shine and not shade. You'll also see orange really embraces true self, worries and all and not be afraid
00:55:57.480
to express it. We actually know orange is the most relatable of our characters in the crew. It's based
00:56:04.200
on some conversations we've had with Gen Z, which we know is the most anxious generation. And beyond
00:56:10.620
our characters, you'll see things such as our increased colour palette, as well as the different
00:56:17.060
sizes and shapes of our lentils. And a personal favourite of mine, more of an emphasis on the
00:56:22.680
ampersand. It's a distinctive element of the M&M's logo that connects the two M's together.
00:56:28.780
And it's really a signal of our belief as a brand that we are better together.
00:56:34.580
Wow. Look, there's no question that women across the country will be uplifted and empowered by the
00:56:40.040
green and brown M&M. Now, the support of these two anthropomorphised pieces of candy will be crucial
00:56:45.060
to women. In fact, not but a week ago, I came into the living room and I found my wife collapsed on the
00:56:49.560
couch in tears. I asked her what was wrong and she told me that she didn't feel supported by the
00:56:53.980
green M&M. And all I could do was hold her and weep with her. Now M&M's have addressed this problem
00:56:59.500
and that is admirable and important. And there's likewise no doubt that we all will derive inspiration
00:57:05.220
from the orange M&M as he embraces his true self. It's always been clear to me that the orange M&M
00:57:09.480
was repressing his true identity, hiding his truth away in fear. And it brings me comfort to know that
00:57:14.200
he'll finally be able to live authentically. But with all that said, M&M's have still dropped the ball
00:57:19.220
significantly. First of all, it is unconscionable that in the year 2022, there still is no overt
00:57:25.740
LGBT representation in the M&M community. Perhaps the true self stuff is supposed to hint at the
00:57:31.920
orange M&M's sexuality, but mere hinting is not even close to good enough. We have to know in very
00:57:38.200
precise terms about the orange M&M's sexual identity and gender expression. Is he gay? Is he bisexual?
00:57:43.340
Is he a trans M&M? Is he a genderqueer, non-binary, transmasculine, two-spirit, demisexual?
00:57:47.980
The fact that he's still forced to keep this part of himself locked away only shows that M&M's as a
00:57:52.940
company is not serious in its commitment to diversity and inclusion. Indeed, its erasure
00:57:58.620
of LGBT identities is a direct assault on an already marginalized community, which has been waiting
00:58:04.580
too long for candy brand representation. Further, while we can appreciate the fact that there is a
00:58:10.620
brown M&M which serves to validate black and brown bodies, still there has not been any ad campaign so
00:58:16.100
far as I'm aware, dealing with systemic racism or police brutality. We have not seen an ad, for
00:58:20.740
example, where the brown M&M is racially profiled during a traffic stop. Is that because the M&M's
00:58:25.620
brand denies that the black community is subject to such persecution? Or do they just not care enough
00:58:32.120
to acknowledge this reality in their ad campaigns? Which is it, M&M's? This is all to say nothing of the
00:58:37.740
fact that still, even now, in the year 2022, they haven't introduced a line of M&M's where the M is
00:58:43.120
written in braille for the sake of the visually impaired. This continued oversight effectively
00:58:47.280
makes it impossible for blind people to eat M&M's, a problem that could be solved by litigation
00:58:51.160
or legislation if Congress could get its act together, but which is, you know, a truly inclusive
00:58:56.260
company would address on its own. Of course, this is part of a long history of M&M ableism. For a long
00:59:02.040
time, their motto was, if you remember, melts in your mouth, not in your hand, completely ignoring the
00:59:07.220
fact that some Americans don't have hands. So it's clear that M&M's commitment to progress,
00:59:13.080
equity, and inclusion is tentative at best, disingenuous at worst. This rebrand is an
00:59:19.060
improvement. Doesn't go nearly far enough. All I can say to M&M's is this, listen to marginalized
00:59:27.480
communities, hear what they're saying, and do the work. Until then, you're canceled. And we'll leave
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it there for today and the week. Have a great weekend. Talk to you on Monday. Godspeed.
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