The Matt Walsh Show - January 25, 2022


Ep. 880 - Our Overlords Want You Fat, Lazy, And Addicted To Porn

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Glenn Youngkin Lena Dunham Donald Trump Hunter Biden Jen Psaki Phil Adam Carolla Joe Biden TJ Miller View Michael Knowles Show Peter Doocy Ben Shapiro Show Boy Scouts Robbie Dantzler Breonna Taylor Austin Stevens Pavel Wadowski Cherokee Heart McKenna Waters and 19 more
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A major health magazine puts out an issue celebrating fatness and calling for gyms and fitness instructors to be better fat allies. Also, Joe Biden cusses out a Fox reporter. How would the media have reacted if Trump did the same thing to someone at CNN? And, amid talk of war for the sake of protecting Ukraine, the White House is asked why America should put itself at risk to protect Europe if Europe won t protect itself.

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00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Wall Show, a major health magazine puts out an issue celebrating fatness
00:00:04.260 and calling for gyms and fitness instructors to be better fat allies. And it's not a satire,
00:00:09.340 it's all very real. Also, Joe Biden cusses out a Fox reporter. How would the media have reacted
00:00:13.500 if Trump did the same thing to someone at, say, CNN? And amid talk of war for the sake of
00:00:18.200 protecting Ukraine, the White House is asked why America should put itself at risk to protect
00:00:23.060 Europe if Europe won't protect itself. It's a good question. The answer was not so great,
00:00:26.940 though. Also, the ladies of The View agree that they may never feel comfortable in public again
00:00:31.480 without a mask because of everything we've learned during the pandemic. But what have we learned
00:00:35.900 exactly? And finally, in our daily cancellation, Lena Dunham is back on the scene and it didn't
00:00:40.460 take long for her to get canceled. We'll talk about all that and more today on The Matt Wall Show.
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00:02:20.200 the new year usually means big business for the fitness industry. People across the country are
00:02:24.620 looking back at our previous year, reflecting on the collective hours and days spent lying around
00:02:29.280 like slugs consuming three times as many calories as we burn off on a good day, our waistlines expanding
00:02:35.840 to blimp-like proportions, feeling the fleeting pains of guilt for all of this, remembering that
00:02:41.280 both sloth and gluttony are deadly sins, and thus resolving to finally begin engaging in some form of
00:02:47.800 physical movement in the year ahead. Of course, the problem is that once we embark on our new health
00:02:52.720 and wellness quest, we discover that exercise is, you know, difficult. And worst of all, it takes up time
00:02:59.280 that are spent watching TikTok videos. And so the resolve dies away and the gyms empty out as quickly
00:03:04.180 as they were filled, though most of the people who abandon their gym routines still continue paying
00:03:08.280 their membership fees, hoping that at least being a dues-paying member of a gym might, you know,
00:03:14.060 count for something, as if heart disease will see their membership card on their keychain and pass them
00:03:18.560 over on that basis alone. The fitness industry does not need you to actually get healthy and fit. It just
00:03:25.320 needs you to see health and fitness as at least theoretically desirable. But what happens when
00:03:31.680 these things, health and fitness and general physical wellness, can no longer be presented
00:03:36.460 as even theoretically desirable? That's when you end up with absurdities like the latest issue of Self
00:03:42.520 magazine. Now, Self is an online publication allegedly focused on health and beauty and owned by the same
00:03:48.820 megacorporation that gives us Vogue, The New Yorker, GQ, Vanity Fair, Wired, pretty much every other magazine
00:03:55.460 in existence, it would seem. Self's first issue of 2022 looks so on the nose, so perfectly representative
00:04:03.580 of all of the foibles of wokeness that you might at first think it's some kind of intentional self-parody.
00:04:09.260 And it is self-parody, but it's just not intentional. As you can see on the cover here,
00:04:13.400 it features an obese woman in spandex, along with the headline, The Future of Fitness. 0.97
00:04:21.600 And one wonders if the next issue will have a picture of a square with the headline,
00:04:25.400 The Future of Circles, or the number five with the headline, The Future of Two Plus Two.
00:04:30.520 In any case, the subheadings on the cover promise to give us more information about,
00:04:33.620 quote, the relentless reality of anti-fatness in fitness, and, quote, four ways to respond to
00:04:40.220 unnecessary encouragement at the gym. Yeah, you know, all those bullies at the gym that, uh, 0.84
00:04:45.840 encourage you. An introductory article by the editor-in-chief, Lita Shai,
00:04:51.320 explains the point and purpose of this health magazine's new focus on promoting obesity.
00:04:56.360 She writes, quote,
00:04:57.220 In this Digital Issues articles and essays, when we say future, we're not talking about the latest
00:05:02.300 fitness trackers or streaming workout equipment. We're talking about the people who are changing the
00:05:07.120 landscape of an industry that has, for too long, excluded many. Over the past few years,
00:05:12.720 thanks to the body positivity movement, as well as other thoughtful explorations that have challenged
00:05:17.560 complacent ideas about weight and size, we've seen an important shift in how we discuss larger bodies.
00:05:24.620 But fitness spaces can be a final frontier in a particular strain of body discrimination,
00:05:28.940 where anti-fat bias and weight-related stigma are entrenched in our collective understanding
00:05:34.920 of what it means to be fit. It's time to break free from this limited view. The future of fitness
00:05:40.940 is about making space for everyone to feel welcome. So in this package, we're celebrating the people
00:05:46.300 who are helping get us there. Now, clicking through to discover the whole package, we find articles with
00:05:52.860 titles like, quote, 12 pieces of running gear that can make running in larger bodies more comfortable.
00:05:58.820 Now, I know what can make running in larger bodies more comfortable, a salad. But I'm guessing that
00:06:05.000 doesn't make it on the list. Other titles, here's how to find a gym that's size-friendly. And quote,
00:06:10.680 these 10 people are challenging how the fitness industry treats fatness. And then, how to feel
00:06:16.200 confident at the gym when you're starting out according to 12 larger-bodied exercisers.
00:06:21.180 Now, please note the updated PC lingo here. A fat guy at the gym is no longer a fat guy at the gym. He
00:06:29.320 is now a larger-bodied exerciser. If all of this doesn't sound inane enough, then how about this
00:06:36.040 headline? Six things fitness instructors should do to become a better fat ally. And quote, seven seemingly
00:06:43.760 empowering body-positive phrases that actually reinforce ableism. And then my favorite, seven
00:06:51.160 ways to repair your relationship with movement. Now, I love that last one because it provides a
00:06:56.700 very useful framework for laziness, which of course is what all of this is really doing.
00:07:01.440 But now when my wife asks me for a third time to get off the couch and go take the garbage cans out, 1.00
00:07:06.420 I can just say, sorry, honey, I'm really working on my relationship with movement right now.
00:07:10.880 Now, we've decided to take some time apart and it's for the best. Can you bring me another beer,
00:07:16.320 by the way? I need you to be a fat ally, honey. Now, it's easy enough to laugh at all this because
00:07:22.560 it's so interminably stupid. But unfortunately, this stuff doesn't just live on Tumblr blogs and 0.92
00:07:28.740 weird internet forums anymore. This is a health magazine published by one of the largest media
00:07:33.980 companies on the planet. Imagine if Men's Health put out an issue on alcoholism,
00:07:40.880 but every article just encouraged you to keep drinking as much booze as you want.
00:07:45.880 Six things you can do to be a better binge drinker ally. Here's how to find an AA meeting that's BYOB.
00:07:53.360 These 10 drunk drivers are challenging how the court system treats impaired driving.
00:07:59.460 For now, anyway, though this could change as we continue our slide down the slippery slope,
00:08:03.660 everyone would agree that such content would be not only ridiculous, but harmful, evil even.
00:08:08.620 As it would actively encourage people to destroy themselves. It's like finding a suicidal man 0.88
00:08:15.000 standing at the edge of the roof and shouting, you should totally jump if you want to. Don't let
00:08:20.020 anyone judge you if you jump. Maybe you can fly. Only one way to find out. And this is why, of course,
00:08:25.820 fat acceptance will never be anything but morally perverse and repulsive. It's like bulimia acceptance
00:08:32.840 or the acceptance of people who cut their wrists. To love someone is to will their good. That is to help
00:08:39.640 them towards what is good for them. But if you're helping them towards degradation, despair, and destruction,
00:08:48.400 that's hatred. Or at least indifference. This is also why obesity is not an identity.
00:08:57.200 It's the erasure of identity. Both because it will kill you. I mean, literally erasing you physically
00:09:03.780 from existence. And also because it covers the defining parts of you. It will always be absurd to
00:09:12.280 claim that a morbidly obese woman is physically beautiful. She's not. Because her feminine features 1.00
00:09:18.260 are covered in lard. I mean, you may as well say someone is most beautiful when they have a blanket
00:09:23.060 over their heads. Beautiful in this context is a description of physical features. But morbid obesity
00:09:30.460 overtakes all of your physical features, covers and destroys them. So that when you call a morbidly obese
00:09:37.060 person physically beautiful, you must be describing the obesity itself as beautiful. Which is to say
00:09:44.100 that destruction and sickness are beautiful. Which is itself a sick thing to say. This is the
00:09:51.320 backwards world we find ourselves in when self-perception reigns supreme. It's a problem we
00:09:57.660 talk about often on this show because it lies at the root of almost everything that's going wrong in
00:10:02.260 our culture. In a world where the ego is king, the job of everyone around you is to reinforce how you
00:10:09.920 perceive yourself or how you at least want to perceive yourself. Because you shouldn't have to
00:10:16.140 conform yourself to any outside reality. There's no truth greater than your truth, your will, your ego.
00:10:23.180 So if you want to feel healthy and beautiful, as everybody does, then society must simply declare
00:10:29.240 that you are both of those things. It would be an act of unthinkable oppression for anyone to tell you
00:10:36.320 that though you want to be those things, you're not. Even if they lay out a plan and they promise to help
00:10:42.980 you become what you want to be. If they say you're not those things right now, but you can be, here's how to
00:10:51.340 do it, I'll help you. Even that is oppressive. Because it implies that there's a truth and reality greater than the
00:10:58.000 individual ego. Something that the individual must navigate through. Rules that he has to follow.
00:11:05.680 And the modern narcissist simply cannot accept that. So he stares in the mirror, tells himself fairy tales
00:11:13.660 about himself, and everybody plays along, cheering him on and on and on and on and all the way over the ledge.
00:11:22.100 Now let's get to our five headlines.
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00:11:42.240 days that are wasted. With the ever-increasing numbers of cars and makes and models, it is now
00:11:46.460 impossible to stock all the parts you need in a traditional chain storefront. Why endure often
00:11:51.240 pointless or seemingly intimidating questions? If you're a real man, you should never be intimidated
00:11:57.100 by questions at the auto parts store, but I am, because I'm not a real man. Why endure that?
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00:12:42.640 they know that we sent you. All right, another cheerful opening monologue. You always get those
00:12:46.960 from the show. The other point I wanted to make about that is this, of course, we find
00:12:54.580 this inclusivity idea. The gyms have to be inclusive of everyone. And of course, in a certain way,
00:13:03.460 they already are. I mean, if you're out of shape, then the gym's for you. Come in and get
00:13:10.940 into better shape. It's like from a moral and spiritual perspective, churches are supposed
00:13:20.280 to be inclusive of sinners, which is a good thing because we all are. If they weren't,
00:13:24.640 then none of us could go. But inclusive in the sense that come and be healed, become a better
00:13:30.480 person. Inclusive in that way. But if we mean inclusive in that it has to just belong to everyone
00:13:41.420 equally with no real goal or purpose in mind, well, when that becomes the focus of any institution
00:13:50.600 or anything, it just means that you're erasing that institution. Inclusivity itself, for its own sake,
00:13:59.760 cannot be the primary point of anything. Because in order for anything to be anything, it must not be
00:14:06.220 everything that it isn't. Now I'm confusing myself. Sometimes when you're dealing with concepts that
00:14:12.080 are so insane, you have to state these simple realities that it almost sounds crazy because
00:14:16.080 you have to say it out loud. So in order for football to be football, it has to not be baseball
00:14:21.760 or basketball. If a steakhouse wants to be a steakhouse, it has to specialize in making steaks,
00:14:26.700 not in making 7,000 different things. If the Boy Scouts want to be the Boy Scouts,
00:14:31.880 it has to have only boys. That's why it's the Boy Scouts. Of course, that's not the case anymore.
00:14:36.540 That's why the Boy Scouts effectively doesn't exist. Once inclusivity becomes the point,
00:14:43.300 include everyone and see them all is totally equal. There's no specific purpose or point here
00:14:50.300 that you have to conform yourself to. Well, then it's just, there's no point. Might as well not
00:14:55.660 exist. All right, let's start with this Biden. President Biden appeared at a, did a rare appearance
00:15:04.800 in front of the media yesterday. And as things were wrapping up, he was asked a question by Peter
00:15:11.580 Ducey over at Fox News about inflation and how that might affect the midterms. And here was Biden's
00:15:17.360 response. That's a great asset. More inflation. What a stupid son of a biscuit. Stupid son of a biscuit
00:15:34.260 is what he said. And the great thing about that is, well, there's a few things that are great about it, 1.00
00:15:39.060 but, but first of all, he's, he's speaking, this is being called a hot mic moment. And, uh, and those
00:15:45.440 kinds of things happen, you know, like a real hot mic moment when you're in front of cameras all the
00:15:51.660 time, there's microphones around all the time and you think the microphone is off or something like
00:15:55.580 that. And, uh, and, uh, and, or you, you, maybe you're wearing a microphone, you forget that you have
00:15:59.240 it on and you just say something off the cuff. I mean, those kinds of things happen. But in this case,
00:16:03.440 he's sitting right in front of the microphone, he's not even muttering, he's just speaking
00:16:09.680 into it. A microphone that he was just using a second ago. So this is not, he's like walking away
00:16:17.780 and, uh, got to take his mic off or he said something that picked off, picked up, picked up by a mic that
00:16:22.900 he didn't know was there. No, he's speaking directly into the microphone. Not because he wanted to be
00:16:28.320 heard, but because he is clueless because he's lost his mind. This is part, these are, these are
00:16:35.820 all symptoms of dementia, not aware of his surroundings, also prone to angry outbursts.
00:16:45.780 Um, and, and prone to just saying things that are wildly inappropriate and kind of just weird.
00:16:52.100 These are all dementia symptoms. But the other thing, of course, that you can't help but, but, uh,
00:16:59.940 but think about is, is if, if, uh, President Trump had said this to say a CNN reporter,
00:17:11.280 imagine the reaction. They would be holding candlelight vigils to commemorate the tragedy for
00:17:18.960 the next 50 years. Every CNN anchor that day. And for the next week, at least, it's the only thing
00:17:27.120 they would talk about. It's an attack on the free press. They would be in tears. Don Lemon would be
00:17:33.680 crying. Brian Stelter would be in tears in a fetal position on the floor, on camera, weeping over it.
00:17:43.060 They would be bringing in counselors on air to, to, to counsel them through their PTSD. I mean,
00:17:48.940 can you imagine? Now, of course, President Trump called people sons of bitches all the time. 1.00
00:17:53.300 And I'm sure he said that about the media many times and not, uh, and perfectly justified in, 0.99
00:17:58.400 in saying that as well. But if he had said it to their face on camera,
00:18:04.760 to maybe Jim Acosta, you stupid son of a bitch. I would have, I would have really enjoyed that. I wish 1.00
00:18:10.440 he had said it, but the theatrics that would follow that be unlike anything we've seen.
00:18:18.940 They'd be calling that this, it was, it equates to, to 15 9-11s, Pearl Harbor three times.
00:18:29.660 My God. But Joe Biden says it. And, uh, of course it's, you know, no big deal. Um, and Peter
00:18:37.100 Doocy to his credit is just kind of laughed it off because he's a, you know, he's a grown man. He has
00:18:42.420 some, he has some sense of dignity. So he's not going to get up there and start crying about it.
00:18:48.540 All right. Let's see. Also, we got this from Fox businesses as when truth social launches later
00:18:54.180 this quarter, the Trump media and technology group, social media platform will already have
00:18:58.260 stringent content moderation practices in place to ensure that it is a family friendly online
00:19:03.580 community. Um, according to the company CEO, Devin Nunes, uh, both Nunes and, uh, former president
00:19:10.060 Donald Trump separately have told Fox business that truth social is expected to be up and running by
00:19:14.220 the end of the first quarter of 2022. Um, and, uh, what they're saying is that, um, they are going
00:19:23.280 to, here we go. The Fox business that says that there's an AI model that there be, that they will
00:19:29.180 be using a Silicon Valley AI thing that they'll be using that will monitor truth social to offer
00:19:36.340 content moderation for posts to ensure that sexually explicit content and posts that include
00:19:41.860 violence, bullying, hate speech, and spam, never make it to the platform. Now, uh, if you're going
00:19:50.640 to start your own social media platform, getting rid of filtering out all the sexually explicit content
00:19:56.900 is fantastic. That's the right thing to do. But if this is supposed to be, and you're calling it
00:20:03.440 truth social, and this is supposed to be an answer to Twitter. I mean, I like the idea, all of these
00:20:09.400 attempts to create alternative social media platforms. I like, I like it in theory. I think
00:20:15.380 it's a good thing to do. And we also need guys like Trump that have got a lot of money and they've got,
00:20:21.840 um, uh, they've already, they already have a platform and they have visibility and they could
00:20:26.640 drive. And if anyone can drive people to a new platform, Donald Trump has that unique ability
00:20:31.560 beyond anybody else on earth. And so in theory, it's a great idea, but if you're using Silicon Valley
00:20:40.640 AI to filter out quote unquote, hate speech and bullying, well, then you're just making Twitter,
00:20:48.960 you're making a cut rate Twitter and there's no reason to leave Twitter. Might as well just keep
00:20:53.640 using Twitter. In fact, the whole idea of making family friend, it sounds nice. Okay. We're gonna
00:21:00.460 have family friendly social media, but there can't really be a family friendly social media because
00:21:06.500 social media itself is not, is not a family friendly thing. In order to be family friendly,
00:21:10.840 it has to be child friendly, right? There's no such thing as child friendly social media.
00:21:15.480 I don't care how good your AI is at filtering out explicit content. Even if it does a perfect
00:21:23.240 job, it, it, uh, you know, bats a thousand in that department, you still shouldn't have your
00:21:27.320 children on social media, no matter what the content is. So there's no point in even trying
00:21:34.940 to make necessarily family friendly social media, but, um, how about just social media? That's
00:21:41.500 friendly to, uh, to free speech. And also if you're calling it truth, social friendly to the truth.
00:21:52.560 But we know the way Silicon Valley looks at it. When they, when they talk about, and this is their
00:21:58.220 technology you're using. And when they say hate speech, what they really mean, it kind of reminds
00:22:03.440 me of a, it's a quote from the office. It's hate speech because they hate it. That's what they mean.
00:22:07.540 And bullying is just stuff that they, if you take a stance or say something that they don't like,
00:22:14.840 then it's bullying. That's how I got suspended from Twitter because I said that biological males 0.97
00:22:18.700 are men. That's hate speech and bullying. And if you're adopting that approach and your answer 0.61
00:22:24.860 to Twitter, I don't even see the point. All right, let's, uh, go back to the white house here.
00:22:31.800 Jen Psaki was asked, uh, thought a very good question as we talk about Ukraine and, uh, the
00:22:39.000 possibility of conflict over Ukraine with Russia. The question to Jen Psaki is, Hey, if, if, if
00:22:46.680 Europeans are, don't seem very excited about protecting Europe, then why should we care that
00:22:51.900 much about it? I mean, why should we be the ones to do it if they won't do it? That's the $10
00:22:56.180 million question over the last several decades of foreign policy. All of these countries that the
00:23:02.880 people of these countries do not seem very excited or determined to protect their own homeland. Why
00:23:08.640 should we do it? Or we want to go into the middle East and, uh, protect democracy for a bunch of people
00:23:16.640 that don't want democracy apparently. So let's see how Jen Psaki handles that question. 1.00
00:23:22.860 Got it. And then just more broadly, um, for years, NATO members have fallen short of their,
00:23:28.960 uh, defense spending, uh, commitments, uh, last year, more than 60% of the Alliance's 30 members,
00:23:34.980 including half of the Bucharest nine that are right, uh, near Russia. They're, um, failed to meet
00:23:40.260 that, uh, their, uh, 2% GDP spending commitment. Um, if Europeans aren't willing to expend, uh, blood
00:23:46.820 and treasure on their self-defense, why should Americans be expected to do so?
00:23:50.880 Well, we are continuing to advocate for, um, all members to, uh, reach, uh, the 2% goal. That has
00:23:59.560 been the, the president's position since he was the vice president. Um, so for many years now,
00:24:05.200 uh, I would say that, uh, we have a sacred obligation under NATO, uh, and we believe it is
00:24:11.240 also in our interest to support our Eastern flank countries, uh, and, and their security. And also to
00:24:16.740 be clear about, uh, uh, the, uh, the value we have as Americans, which is that no country should be
00:24:22.940 able to take with force, um, another country as, as Russia is attempting to do at this point in time.
00:24:30.180 A sacred obligation with NATO. Uh, no, there's, there's nothing sacred. First of all,
00:24:37.420 in agreements that countries make between themselves, these are all, these are all political
00:24:41.200 arrangements. It's not sacred. I'll tell you as, um, if you work for the United States government,
00:24:47.220 you, you do have sacred obligations. Your sacred obligations are to, uh, the people of the United
00:24:52.540 States. Your sacred, sacred obligation is to protect the United States. Your sacred obligation
00:24:56.600 is to protect the United States border, to protect our sovereignty and our people.
00:25:00.900 And when we see that our country is in a state of, uh, of collapse,
00:25:07.480 border is like a sieve and our cities are collapsing crime, running rampant law and order, deteriorating,
00:25:17.200 you know, your sacred obligation is to do something about those problems. That's what you're hired to
00:25:24.560 do. We don't have a sacred, sacred obligation to Ukraine. Or our, our principle is that no country 0.98
00:25:33.560 should ever take over another country by force. Really in the entire world. So it's our job as 0.91
00:25:41.900 America to make sure that no country ever does that anywhere to any other country. Why? What about
00:25:48.280 the countries involved? What about the country that's being taken over? I mean, do they have any
00:25:54.140 obligation here? It was always funny to me when we hear, um, all of this fretting, especially by
00:26:03.380 American politicians that, uh, Russia is expanding its influence across the globe. Uh, they're expanding
00:26:09.740 their influence. Meanwhile, these very same politicians and people in government, I just heard
00:26:14.460 from Jen Psaki, they think that America should have influence over every single country on earth.
00:26:20.000 They think we should potentially have a say in what happens in every single country on the globe
00:26:25.980 or worried about Russia's influence. So here's what I want to pass along for anyone in the audience.
00:26:33.240 If you're listening to this and, uh, maybe you disagree with what I'm saying and you feel very
00:26:37.020 strongly that, uh, we, you know, we have a sacred obligation to Ukraine and we have to go protect
00:26:42.300 Ukraine. We also have to protect, um, as she says, the Eastern flank of Europe, uh, even though the
00:26:48.240 Europeans themselves don't seem to care that much about it, are not investing almost anything in
00:26:52.460 doing that, but we have to do it. So if you feel that way, if you feel strongly about it,
00:26:57.220 that we should expend, uh, not just money, but more importantly, lives to go die potentially on
00:27:05.940 Ukrainian soil to protect Ukraine from Russia, then here's what I would, I want to pass this along.
00:27:10.960 It was a very helpful link and, uh, take out, maybe take out a pencil, pen or pencil and write
00:27:15.440 this down. It is, um, immigration, Ukraine.com slash citizenship dash of dash Ukraine. Again,
00:27:23.520 I give it to immigration, Ukraine.com slash citizenship, uh, dash of dash Ukraine. And just
00:27:30.100 plug that, uh, address in there. And it's going to pull up the Ukrainian immigration bureau website,
00:27:37.000 and it's all written in English, very, very, very handy way. And it's going to give you the
00:27:41.460 process to become a citizen of Ukraine. And this is what I would really recommend for anyone that
00:27:46.800 cares that much about Ukraine. Absolutely go to the website, um, start the process, move to Ukraine,
00:27:53.620 become a citizen, and then join the military. And in fact, I think, and I was just, I was looking
00:27:57.980 through this briefly. Um, I'll have to do a, I'll have to do a deeper dive and I could give you the,
00:28:02.340 maybe information tomorrow, but I believe that you can actually move there and, uh, and join the
00:28:08.760 military first and then, and then, uh, kind of earn your citizenship that way. So you can also call
00:28:14.900 them. There's numbers you can call and everything, but absolutely. This is what, for, for anyone that
00:28:18.680 cares that much, if you think that, um, you know, American parents should send their sons and even
00:28:27.260 now their daughters to go die to protect Ukraine, that's how strongly you feel about it, then please 0.85
00:28:34.720 go to this website, leave this country, become a citizen of Ukraine, and you can fight and die 0.99
00:28:39.360 yourself for it. All right, a couple other clips I want to play for you. Here are the ladies of The 1.00
00:28:47.140 View explaining why they may never ride the subway again without a mask. They may never go out in public
00:28:52.260 again without a mask because of all the things we've learned since the pandemic. Listen. I think
00:28:57.680 there's a prudence we've learned with the mask, the hand sanitizer, uh, hand sanitizing that kind of
00:29:02.440 like 9-11 with flying is always going to be here. Now there's a new normal in the beginning when at post
00:29:07.780 9-11 people didn't want to fly and the security measures felt like, uh, how do we do this? You know,
00:29:13.440 and now it's the norm. I think some of the things we've learned in this pandemic are going to stay the
00:29:17.900 same. I may never ride a subway again without a mask. I may never go indoors to big crowds and never
00:29:22.140 feel comfortable without a mask. And that's up to me to do that. By the way, I have to get on this
00:29:28.360 show. Um, this, my next stop on daytime TV, I've already, we've done Dr. Phil and my next step has
00:29:34.380 to be The View. This is my, this is my ultimate dream is to be on The View. Um, I could die, you know,
00:29:42.000 I could retire after that and, and I could die a happy man if I could just get on The View. I think
00:29:49.540 everyone needs to reach out to the, to the people of The View and demand, in fact, that they feature
00:29:54.180 the number one bestselling LGBT children's author in the world on their show. Anything less, their 1.00
00:30:00.160 refusal to bring me on the show would be an act of gay erasure and homophobia. As far as the point 0.94
00:30:06.320 being made here, such as it is, uh, she says, well, because of everything we've learned during the
00:30:10.720 pandemic, that's why I'm, I, I just can't, I can't be in large crowds again without a mask.
00:30:14.220 Can't run, ride a subway because of what we learned. What have we learned exactly? What,
00:30:19.600 what, what have you learned? What did you learn during the pandemic about viruses that you didn't
00:30:24.500 know before? And that makes you want to wear a mask out in public. Did you not know that there
00:30:31.380 were potentially germs and viruses in the air when you're around other people? Did you not know that
00:30:38.240 the subway is it? Did it just occur to you that the subway in New York is, can be a kind of a dirty
00:30:44.060 place? I'm pretty sure you knew that before. I know I did. So here's what I'll tell you. I didn't
00:30:51.920 learn. And it's not because I, I, I'm not open to learning. I'm open to learning, but I have not
00:30:57.060 learned a single thing about viruses or masks or vaccines for that matter that I didn't already know.
00:31:05.080 So I know that viruses exist. I know germs exist. I know that people can get sick. I know that you
00:31:11.060 could be around other people who are sick and that they can get you sick. In fact, we've, we've known
00:31:16.400 that ever since the germ theory of disease was first developed. We've known that for a long time
00:31:20.240 and I knew it. And yet I would still go around in public as I do now without a mask
00:31:27.700 because I have had conducted a risk benefit analysis
00:31:33.520 and decided that the risk is not enough that would necessitate me changing my lifestyle to that
00:31:40.900 extent. You know what? I had also judged that, that, you know, things like breathing fresh air,
00:31:46.820 not a lot of that on a subway, but still in general, breathing fresh air is more important to me
00:31:53.920 than trying to protect myself from any potential viruses out there by wearing a mask. That's,
00:32:01.240 it's more important. Um, being able to show my face in public and to see other people's faces,
00:32:07.100 that is more important to me than protecting myself from a virus. That's the calculation I made
00:32:16.060 up until two years ago. And I continue to make now. And the thing is every other person in the country,
00:32:21.540 every single one, all 330 million plus of them had made the same calculation, whether consciously
00:32:29.220 or not, because they all, we all knew that masks existed. We all knew viruses existed. We all knew
00:32:33.980 germs existed. And yet nobody was going out in public with a mask on with rare exception. You know,
00:32:42.140 you have someone who's, who's very sick. Someone's going through their, their immune system is very,
00:32:45.820 is very weakened, maybe going through chemotherapy or something, you know, rare exception.
00:32:49.320 Everybody else going out without masks on. Not because they didn't know, but because they had
00:32:55.900 done, even if just subconsciously, the risk benefit analysis. So it's not that you learn new things,
00:33:02.200 it's that your priorities changed. Or maybe it's better to say that you've been conditioned
00:33:07.420 and she's proudly admitting it. Oh yeah, I've been, I've been conditioned by the fear camp,
00:33:14.820 the panic porn from the government. So much so that it's, it's changed the way that I see
00:33:21.480 my life. It's changed the way that I see people. And she's proud to admit it.
00:33:28.760 In fact, the, the comparison that she makes is, is apt where she talks about the TSA and how,
00:33:34.040 oh, so totally normal going to the TSA. Everyone's fine with it. Yeah, it is normal in that the TSA is in
00:33:40.220 every single airport and you can't avoid them, but I'm not fine with it. In fact, every time I go
00:33:46.420 through airport security, I am very much aware and cognizant of the fact that this is all theater.
00:33:51.880 That's all it is. There's really, there was, there was never any real good reason to federalize
00:33:59.280 airport security. Especially when 9-11 was in many ways, the result of failures of the federal
00:34:06.740 government to prevent it. And not because they didn't have opportunities. So then the federal
00:34:12.520 government gets to come in and take over airport security when they dropped the ball. So I'm
00:34:16.960 cognizant of that every single time I go through, this is all pointless.
00:34:19.520 Um, and not to mention, we put all of this intense focus on airplanes as if that's the only place a
00:34:31.400 terrorist can attack. I mean, a terrorist could just put a suicide bomb on and walk into any crowded
00:34:38.240 place and kill at least as many people as they would kill by taking down a plane.
00:34:43.360 So it doesn't even make any sense anyway. I either, either federalize and have a TSA military
00:34:51.980 security everywhere in the country at every public event or don't have it at all and leave it to the
00:35:00.400 individual airports and so on to, to deal with the security. I'm aware of that. I think about it
00:35:05.280 every single time. What she's just admitting is that she's not a, she's not a critical thinker and
00:35:10.800 she becomes, she's easily conditioned. And so for her, like unfortunately many, many people in this
00:35:16.260 country, the government just has to put something in place. You put a new policy or procedure in place
00:35:21.680 and maybe at first, maybe she'll be kind of critical of it or skeptical for a few days or hours,
00:35:29.380 but just keep it there for a little bit longer. And suddenly she, it's just part of her life now.
00:35:34.700 And she stops questioning because she doesn't have the critical thinking faculties to question 0.81
00:35:40.360 things that are quote unquote normal. The moment they become normal, she can't question them anymore.
00:35:47.900 And she's quite proud to admit it. Pretty amazing. All right. What else we got here?
00:35:52.620 This is from the Washington Free Beacon. Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin on Wednesday overhauled the
00:35:58.520 state's office of diversity, equity, and inclusion to focus on economic opportunity, parental rights,
00:36:04.300 and protecting unborn children. The governor announced the change in an executive order
00:36:08.280 naming former Heritage Foundation executive Angela Saylor as the office's director. Youngkin's
00:36:12.860 executive order also expands the scope of the office beyond standard diversity issues.
00:36:17.040 It directs the office to eliminate disparities in prenatal care and be an ambassador for unborn
00:36:22.120 children. Youngkin also announced that he would seek to change the name of the department
00:36:26.800 to the office of diversity, opportunity, and inclusion. So rather than diversity, equity,
00:36:31.920 and inclusion, now it's the diversity, opportunity, and inclusion.
00:36:37.020 Ralph Northam, former governor, established the office in 2019. And he did that. Okay. It was after
00:36:45.800 his blackface faux pas became public. And then this was one of his ways of paying reparations was to
00:36:53.600 establish an office of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Now, a lot of people on the right are
00:36:59.380 kind of celebrating this and saying this is another good move by Glenn Youngkin. And don't get me wrong.
00:37:03.180 Glenn Youngkin has done a lot right in his first couple weeks in office. I would dare say he's had
00:37:07.780 the best first week in office of any governor in my lifetime. I can't think of anything better. He had
00:37:13.200 the best first day. He did more in one day than many governors do in their entire tenure.
00:37:20.940 So a lot of credit to him for that. But this, I don't like. This, I'm not a fan of. Now, having an
00:37:29.560 ambassador for the unborn, focusing on parental rights, on the rights of children, all that stuff
00:37:35.000 is great. But to do it within the framework of the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, I don't
00:37:43.260 like that. No, we don't. What you should be doing is not overhauling the Office of Diversity, Equity,
00:37:49.940 and Inclusion. An office that, as we know, it's only been around for two years. And it was formed
00:37:56.360 as a PR stunt by the previous governor. So what do you do with that? You just come in and get rid of
00:38:02.620 it. That's it. Don't overhaul it. Get rid of it. Fire everybody that works for it and be done with
00:38:08.140 it. And if you want to have a separate program or office or something that is focused on the rights
00:38:13.720 of the unborn or parental rights, fantastic, do that. But to overhaul this office and then rename
00:38:22.420 it a little bit, I think is the wrong move. Well, we have to stop doing what I talk about all the time,
00:38:29.040 this mistake that we make as conservatives, by adopting the left's framework for things.
00:38:34.860 So we're going to take the leftist framework of diversity, equity, and inclusion and just
00:38:43.320 use that to advance, say, the pro-life agenda. It never works. And it's pointless because who's
00:38:52.080 it supposed to appeal to? It's not like you're going to convince the people on the left to say,
00:38:57.060 oh, well, if the pro-life movement is part of an effort for diversity and equity, then I'm in favor
00:39:02.460 of it. I mean, they might be stupid. They're not that stupid. And everybody on the right, 1.00
00:39:07.400 we don't need that. So who exactly are you appealing to? This is part of the thing that we,
00:39:12.880 again, conservatives will often do. It's a strategy. I just think it's a mistaken one
00:39:17.780 where we're going to say to the left, oh, you know what? We're better at living by your values than
00:39:22.740 you are. You think that you care about diversity, equity, inclusion, tolerance, but you don't. No,
00:39:29.240 the left, they're the real intolerant ones. No, I'll show you how to be tolerant.
00:39:35.420 It's always the wrong move. So a lot of good from Glenn Youngkin, not this. And we got to call
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00:40:42.940 now to our comment section.
00:40:45.280 Do you know their name? They're the Sweet Baby Gang.
00:40:52.860 All right, dailywire.com slash sweetbabycomments. And we've got, we're going back to the video
00:40:57.560 comments today. And let's start, we'll just go through the clips here. Let's start with clip one.
00:41:01.560 Hey Matt, I thought you were brilliant on Dr. Phil, and I wanted to conduct an experiment in my own
00:41:07.440 home and see if my six-year-old daughter and my three-year-old son could tell me the difference
00:41:11.380 between a man and a woman and what a woman is. I'm going to ask you something. What is a woman? 1.00
00:41:19.700 A female. What makes a woman different from a man? 1.00
00:41:24.740 Uh, boobs. 1.00
00:41:25.760 Well, there you have it. SPG for life. 0.99
00:41:31.400 Horrifying. Horrifying. You, you have conditioned these poor children to be transphobes this early 1.00
00:41:37.700 in life. I, for one, no, this is a, yeah, this is, well, it just goes to show, uh, and if I were,
00:41:44.940 and you know, if I were to ask my kids the same question, I would get very similar answers.
00:41:49.320 These are concepts that are so simple that literally a three-year-old can understand them.
00:41:54.240 Until the indoctrinators come in and confuse the kids intentionally. So it's one, it's one big,
00:42:01.340 like we talked about last week, we, we have, we're standing on the firm ground of truth of a very
00:42:07.880 simple truth that the three-year-old can understand. How do you know someone's a woman? Uh, boobs. 0.99
00:42:13.880 There you go. Really is that simple most of the time. Um, we're standing on the firm ground of truth 0.98
00:42:19.560 and all the left does is they just, they, they don't have answers for themselves. All they could
00:42:23.880 try to do is confuse you. And unfortunately with kids, it's, it's easy to confuse them because
00:42:29.160 they're just kids. So keep those, keep those, uh, young children away from the public school system, 1.00
00:42:34.480 please. All right, let's go to number two. Hey, sweet daddy Walsh. My name is Shelby and I recently
00:42:41.760 fled California and moved to Tennessee and I'm honored to be living in the same state as my sweet daddy.
00:42:46.760 Um, I just wanted to say that I also keep my house pretty cool, usually around 62 to 64 degrees,
00:42:55.300 even though it's pretty chilly here in Tennessee. And I just wanted to let you know that some of us
00:43:01.800 women are on the same page as you. Um, and I'm standing, standing with you on this one instead of, 1.00
00:43:08.800 uh, your wife, but keep the house cold, helps you sleep better. And thanks for the great show. 0.94
00:43:16.760 Yeah. This, this sweet daddy thing is just, it, it, we should have thought about this before we did
00:43:24.620 the video comments. It's a whole different experience hearing it. And the other thing is
00:43:31.720 there are, there are a lot of new, um, viewers to the Matt Walsh show this week, which, which is great.
00:43:37.160 A lot of people discovering the, you know, the show because of Dr. Phil and I don't even know what
00:43:43.060 they must be thinking with these comments from people calling me sweet daddy. Like what, what is,
00:43:49.620 what, what is happening in the show? They must be wondering. And the thing is, if I, we never
00:43:52.960 explained this week, baby gang, that's one of the rules, but even if I did, I'm not sure it would
00:43:56.120 make it any less weird. So I got to think about this. Let's just, uh, thanks for the comment. Let's,
00:44:03.160 let's, let's, uh, let's move on.
00:44:08.660 What have we got here?
00:44:10.060 I love that. We're making the world a better place. Um,
00:44:39.880 one, one shopping cart at a time. So this is, this is really a movement. And at the same time,
00:44:46.420 we are continuing to just confuse everyone. So the other people in the parking lot
00:44:50.740 watching someone return their, their shopping cart while chanting return or die.
00:44:56.420 Very confusing. Uh, one more comment here. Let's watch this.
00:45:01.740 Hey Matt, huge fan of the show. Uh, so is my buddy Cosmo back here. Um, I just wanted to throw
00:45:06.860 in a quick comment to see if maybe you and Michael Knowles will be willing to team up
00:45:11.260 and create some sort of, uh, dating site, dating app, uh, connected with a daily wire.
00:45:17.760 Um, because you know, I feel like a lot of single people like myself share in a lot of these values,
00:45:23.320 um, you know, you know, being a conservative, being a Christian, all that sort of thing. It's,
00:45:28.080 it just seems to be very, very hard right now to try to find the right match. So, um, I
00:45:33.320 wanted to throw it out there, see if you guys are open to doing something like that,
00:45:37.080 because I feel like my ideal match would obviously be Christian and conservative. And,
00:45:41.740 you know, more, most importantly, um, they would be a member of the sweet baby gang. So,
00:45:46.760 uh, so I think if you and Knowles teamed up on something like that, it would be amazing.
00:45:50.800 I don't know, talk it over with Ben, but I think it'd be a great idea. Help us single people out,
00:45:54.800 man. Um, huge fan of the show again, um, SBG for life.
00:45:58.520 Yeah. I, uh, I like the idea of having our own dating app. First of all,
00:46:03.660 why would I include Knowles in it? I mean, this is because the reason I like it is because we
00:46:07.180 make a lot of money off of that. So I like the profit part of it and I would just keep all the
00:46:10.900 money for myself. But, um, in terms of actually solving the problem with the dating scene, I'm not
00:46:16.920 sure another app would really do it. You know, I'm sure there are plenty of, um, of, I'm sure there
00:46:22.420 are plenty of, you know, Christian dating apps or whatever out there, uh, that are, they're allegedly
00:46:26.800 catering. They may not be specifically catering, catering to the sweet baby gang, unfortunately,
00:46:30.340 but, um, there's plenty of apps that are supposed to cater to that audience. And I'm not sure
00:46:35.860 that's probably better than using one of these other apps, but it doesn't really solve a lot
00:46:40.320 of the problems that we talked about yesterday, where, I mean, the problems are just way too many
00:46:45.500 options. Just the whole act of like going through faces and swiping the ones you don't like, uh,
00:46:51.140 it's just kind of dehumanizing and inherently dismissive in a way that just doesn't put you on the
00:46:56.140 right footing for trying to find a real relationship. And then there's the problem, like we talked
00:47:01.440 about that, that it's, this is all, it's all, it is all exclusively visual, right? Or almost
00:47:06.820 exclusive. So you've got the picture and then maybe a little bit of a description of the person
00:47:09.980 in their profile, but most of these determinations are made, um, visually. And that kind of flips
00:47:16.000 things on their head, especially for women, because women, um, are not nearly as visual as men. 0.71
00:47:21.120 And so if a woman meets a man in person, it doesn't even take that long. Like she, the physical part 1.00
00:47:27.320 of it is going to be helpful, but she's going to pick up on a lot more, right? Personality,
00:47:32.540 intelligence, just kind of their aura, you know, women have kind of an intuition about those things 1.00
00:47:37.560 and that none of that is there with the picture. So, um, that's just a long way of saying, I'm not
00:47:43.160 sure that any app can solve these problems. I think, I think the real way to solve the problem is to get
00:47:46.680 away from the apps. Um, if anything, you know, maybe go back to traditional sort of matchmaking
00:47:52.340 type services or try to go out as hard as it must be. And I don't envy it at all. Envy you at all.
00:48:00.200 If you're in this position, but really you got to go out in public and try to meet people in person.
00:48:07.720 I don't know where you would begin to do that, but I think that's what you have to start thinking about
00:48:12.240 because these apps come with problems that just can't be solved by another app. All right. Um,
00:48:19.300 let's see. Moose chuckle says, Matt, your show was late to start, but as a diligent follower,
00:48:23.240 I was here waiting. Will you please put Matt Walsh bobbleheads in the online store? If you will buy
00:48:28.880 them, I have no shame. I mean, you can go to the online store at dailywire.com slash shop, go to the
00:48:34.760 Matt Walsh store and you will clearly see that I have no shame at all. And I, if, if, if there's an
00:48:39.620 audience for it, we will sell it. There was an audience, a disturbingly large audience for t-shirts
00:48:46.960 with pictures of me and a diaper. And so we put it up to sell. Okay. So we'll, we'll do the bobbleheads
00:48:52.820 too. All right. Friend of a Jesus says, I'm single 36 years old. I'm a pastor. And yes, the dating
00:48:59.000 scene is rather toxic. I feel as if I stand upon an infinite plane of destruction stretching out in
00:49:04.080 all directions toward a dark, miserable, empty sunset. And my only hope is that God might somehow bring
00:49:09.300 these dry bones to life. I don't know if that's a quote from something, but if that's your own
00:49:14.720 words, then, uh, rather depressing, but also see the fact that you can write that alone means that
00:49:22.860 women would be interested in you. The fact that you have, you have the ability to write and think that
00:49:26.600 way and, um, express yourself in that way. But that's, again, it's something that's, it's hard to
00:49:34.740 put that foot forward in a dating app. And that's part of the problem. Um, because what you just put
00:49:40.320 there quite beautiful, really, and depressing, you know, but that's not something you want to put in
00:49:46.120 a dating profile, but the ability to speak that way and write that way is something that women do 1.00
00:49:50.960 find interesting. Um, let's see. Kevin says, Hey Matt, I've got a question that relates to two topics
00:49:58.180 you've frequently discussed marriage and dating and also porn. If you, if a guy has a porn addiction,
00:50:03.180 should he wait to start dating a girl until he gets control of it and, uh, defeats it? Yeah,
00:50:08.960 I would say absolutely. Um, because if the porn habit is being indulged alongside establishing a
00:50:19.120 relationship with someone that's, that's not going to work and you're just setting yourself up for
00:50:24.400 failure, setting her up for failure, her up for feelings of, uh, betrayal and all of that.
00:50:29.140 Um, so I would, I would focus on, on getting that under control and then moving on. Um,
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00:52:31.880 Somehow, though, it would seem that the Daily Cancellation was made for her. Lena Dunham has,
00:52:36.920 I don't think, ever been canceled on this show. Sadly, she dropped off the face of the earth right
00:52:41.020 around the time when I began this segment. Some might even speculate that the timing was not a
00:52:44.700 coincidence. Perhaps she fled from public view in order to avoid the wrath of the Daily
00:52:48.640 Cancellation. She was briefly back on the radar early in 2021 when she released a plus-sized fashion 1.00
00:52:54.500 line that was immediately slammed by critics for not catering to fat people enough. The woke crowd
00:53:01.020 claimed that Dunham's new brand failed the inclusivity test because though it had clothing
00:53:05.440 for large people, it did not have any for very large and very, very large people. So Dunham's attempt
00:53:11.620 to relaunch her career crashed and burned as the woke zombies swarmed the rocket before takeoff and 1.00
00:53:17.260 devoured everybody inside, which is probably why they need bigger clothing. But now Dunham is making
00:53:22.280 her real comeback. And last week, a lengthy puff piece in The Hollywood Reporter featuring glamour
00:53:27.640 shots like this one, which you can see here. There you go. Feast your eyes on that for a moment.
00:53:33.600 Announced that Dunham was back on the scene and she's not going anywhere. And her new film,
00:53:38.180 Sharp Stick, has debuted. The website MovieMaker.com quotes her Q&A after the premiere at Sundance,
00:53:44.820 where she explains what the film is about and what she hopes to achieve with it. The article says,
00:53:49.620 quote, Lena Dunham's Sharp Stick shows the porn industry in a rare positive light. She says that
00:53:54.960 was 100% intentional. Now, side note, you're of course filled with a deep sense of foreboding at the
00:54:01.700 thought that Lena Dunham directed and starred in a film about porn. But just to put your mind at ease,
00:54:06.340 we're not playing any clips. We will stick instead with what she has said about the movie and
00:54:11.600 continuing. She says, I think many of us were, especially people who started maybe like reading
00:54:16.060 second wave feminist literature early. We were shaped by a kind of feminism that maybe didn't 1.00
00:54:20.620 give porn its due as something that can be really healing for people. Dunham, who directed,
00:54:25.420 wrote, and acted in Sharp Stick, said Saturday in a Q&A after the film's world premiere at Sundance,
00:54:29.560 quote, I think we have found, we have enough messaging in society, and probably in my 20s,
00:54:33.720 I contributed to it, that said, like, porn is ruining sex, and it's making it so hard for people.
00:54:38.780 But I really wanted this to show the way that porn can liberate people, and that it's an industry
00:54:43.120 that's just as complicated as Hollywood, and as vast, and probably more prolific. And I think
00:54:47.640 that it's really important for us to recognize the very healthy role that porn can play, and the
00:54:51.700 important role that porn actors play in shaping people's identities. Now, we should mention here
00:54:57.280 that Dunham's new film has been described, even by mainstream critics, who are predisposed to
00:55:01.600 appreciate Dunham's work as, quote, heinous, hollow, amateurish, cringe, uncomfortable, and problematic.
00:55:08.780 Those are also all the adjectives that I would use to describe a Lena Dunham-starring film about
00:55:13.260 the wonders of porn, even though I haven't seen it. I never will, because I'd sooner scoop my own
00:55:17.960 eyes out with a rusty spoon than watch something like that. But even if the film fails to impress the
00:55:23.480 critics, the basic message is one that would generally enjoy wide agreement among many people
00:55:28.280 in our culture, especially on the left. Porn is liberating and empowering, we're told. Healing,
00:55:35.940 even, as Dunham claims. Is that true? In a word, no. Pornography is about as liberating, empowering,
00:55:43.540 and healing as heroin. When Dunham calls it all of those things, what she really means is that it's
00:55:50.400 pleasurable. And she draws no distinction between pleasure and liberation, or pleasure and joy, or pleasure
00:55:57.160 and love, because for her, as for so many others in our culture, momentary pleasure is the highest good
00:56:02.800 that we can hope to achieve. A life packed full of moments of surface-level pleasure is mistaken,
00:56:09.680 then, for a fulfilled and joyful life. That is, these two things are mistaken until you look around and
00:56:14.420 see the results. Because if porn is so wonderful and healing, then you'd expect, for one thing,
00:56:19.820 that the people in the porn industry would be the most joyful and healed of all. And yet we find among
00:56:25.460 people in that line of work sky-high rates of suicide and drug abuse, just as we find among prostitutes. 0.98
00:56:31.960 And the people who appear in porn videos are just prostitutes, after all. As for the viewer, when you 0.79
00:56:37.760 look at porn, you become a faceless onlooker, peering like a stalker through the window of a motel 0.99
00:56:43.280 while someone else has sex with a hooker they hired on the street corner. But it's worse than that, really, 1.00
00:56:48.280 because it's less honest. At least the peeping Tom is forced to reckon with his behavior. He's out in the
00:56:53.760 cold, ducking behind bushes, watching these two go at it. And from there, he sees the whole act,
00:56:58.460 the whole dismal exchange. He doesn't get to dip in and out of a dozen scenes, consuming portions
00:57:03.120 and glances before breezing along to the next. He doesn't get to close the tab when it's all over
00:57:08.760 and act like nothing happened. He's there as a stranger in the dark, and he has to go home and
00:57:13.340 deal with the reality of what he's become. The porn viewer, on the other hand, feels insulated.
00:57:18.180 What he's doing really is identical in a lot of ways, but it doesn't seem that way because it's
00:57:23.160 safer. It's a screen, not a window. She's an amateur porn star, not a prostitute. His actions 0.98
00:57:30.020 are legal, even normal by today's standards. Oh, he's different, he tells himself. He's better.
00:57:36.880 That's a lie, because everything about porn is a lie. Porn makes human beings into objects. 0.98
00:57:41.960 It turns a sexual act into something transactional and mercenary. Sex between a married couple in 1.00
00:57:48.420 the privacy of their bedroom is an expression of love and devotion. So then what does sex on camera
00:57:52.920 for the viewing public express? And what does the viewer express by viewing it? I mean, the supporters
00:58:01.400 of porn, they're the first ones to claim that this is an act of expression. Okay, I'll take you at your
00:58:09.340 word. What is it expressing exactly? Certainly not empowerment. A woman who feels like she has 1.00
00:58:15.680 power over her life does not whore herself out to the porn industry. And a man, or woman for that 1.00
00:58:20.480 matter, who feels like he has power over his own life does not make a whore of himself by watching 0.98
00:58:24.300 it. The porn industry, along with sites like Pornhub and so on, they profit off of the willful 0.96
00:58:29.760 self-degradation of both the viewer and the view to the tune of many billions of dollars.
00:58:33.860 You know, it's hard to argue that consumers are ever really empowered in their role as consumer,
00:58:40.200 even when they're consuming something innocuous or morally neutral. I've never felt empowered while
00:58:45.840 waiting in line at Target, which isn't to say that there's anything morally wrong with shopping at a
00:58:50.560 retail outlet. It's just to say that I would never try to find anything poetic or beautiful about the
00:58:55.640 experience. So then what about consumers of the porn industry's product? If you're not empowered while
00:59:01.760 pushing a cart around the aisles of a big box retailer, how in the hell could you be empowered 0.91
00:59:06.340 in your role as a faceless third-party participant in virtual prostitution? And how could the prostitutes 0.97
00:59:12.620 themselves be empowered? No, everyone involved is being used, dehumanized, and objectified.
00:59:19.140 Far from being healed, they're being damaged. Though they may find some pleasure in the harm being done
00:59:24.840 to them, just as you may find pleasure in the brain damage you suffer from drinking too much whiskey,
00:59:29.240 that can't be confused with joy, or at least of all, empowerment. And this is all why today,
00:59:37.120 finally, we have the honor to say to Lena Dunham, you are canceled. I'll leave it there for today.
00:59:43.340 Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great day. Godspeed.
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