Ep. 920 - Biden Says You Can Now Identify As Gender 'X' On Your Passport
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In honor of International Trans Day of Visibility, the Biden administration has made a number of policy changes, including allowing you to list yourself as the gender of X on your passport. How exactly is that going to work? Also, backlash grows against Disney s self-professed gay agenda, as we at The Daily Wire announce our response to leftism in children s entertainment, and a lesbian couple sues a fertility clinic for giving them a boy instead of a girl.
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Today on The Matt Walsh Show, in honor of Trans Day of Visibility, the Biden administration has
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made a number of policy changes, including allowing you to list yourself as the gender
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of X on your passport. How exactly is that going to work? Also, backlash grows against Disney's
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self-professed gay agenda as we at The Daily Wire announce our response to leftism in children's
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entertainment. And a lesbian couple sues a fertility clinic for giving them a boy instead
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of a girl. The experience of giving birth to a boy was, they say, like, quote, rape. In our daily
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cancellation, people with PhDs complain about being marginalized when others fail to address
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As you may or may not have heard, today is a sacred holiday called International Trans Day of
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Visibility. This is a day set aside to specially affirm, acknowledge, recognize, celebrate trans people.
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And it's good that we have a day like this because there are not enough days on the calendar
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specifically dedicated to honoring people who identify as LGBT. I mean, all we have right now
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is International Transgender Day of Visibility and also Lesbian Visibility Day, April 26th,
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and International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia, May 17th, and of course,
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Harvey Milk Day, May 22nd, and Pansexual and Panromantic Visibility Day, May 24th,
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and obviously Pride Month in June, followed by Bisexuality Day, September 23rd, and then
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obviously Bisexual Awareness Week, September 23rd to September 30th, and National Coming
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Out Day, October 11th, Pronouns Day, October 16th, National LGBT Center Awareness Day, October
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19th, Spirit Day, October 20th, Intersex Awareness Day, October 26th, Asexual Awareness Week, October
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23rd through the 29th, and Transgender Day of Remembrance, November 20th, and Pansexual Panromantic
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Pride Day, December 8th. So you see, LGBT people clearly aren't visible enough. All they have is
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an entire month and a dozen other separate holidays. That's all they got. Along with really
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every other day on the calendar, because no group of people on earth today or at any other time in
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history have been so specially and obsessively and incessantly recognized and celebrated. There has
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never been such a mismatch between a group's size and the population and their influence over the
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culture. It's an influence so extreme that society itself is being reorganized as we speak in order
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to cater to the demands of LGBT activists. Every institution in the country has made LGBT awareness
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and activism its primary priority. Major corporations like Disney are willingly alienating 99% of their
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customer base for the sake of LGBT extremism. Our very conception of reality itself, of human nature,
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biology is being reordered and reshaped at the behest of LGBT activists. And the process isn't
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done because, I mean, it's never done. In fact, the White House unveiled today a whole new list of
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initiatives to coincide with the Trans Day of Visibility. Charlotte Clymer, who's a militant trans
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activist with the Human Rights Campaign, outlined all of the new policies in a Twitter thread this
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morning. So I'm going to read some of this to you. It says, the White House and federal agencies put out
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a number of wonderful announcements about trans rights a few hours ago. And so I'm so excited to
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tell you about them because today should be a day about trans and non-binary joy. One, the State
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Department announced that starting on April 11th, U.S. citizens will be able to select X as a non-binary
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gender marker on passports. They are the first federal agency to codify this inclusive policy.
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Applicants can already self-select without medical documentation. Two, TSA announced that they are
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updating their body scanners at airport security to move away from tech that has led to trans and
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non-binary travelers experiencing frequent discrimination, reducing unnecessary and invasive
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and humiliating body searches. So excited for this. Three, TSA is also working with airlines to
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implement non-binary markers during the flight booking process, removing gender considerations with
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validating traveler info at airport security, including non-binary markers during TSA pre-check
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enrollment and CBP trusted traveler. Four, Department of Health and Human Services released a new website
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that offers resources and guidance for LGBTQ youth and families to counteract several GOP-led state
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governments, removing such resources from their own websites in recent months. And five, the Department
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of Education's Office of Safe and Supportive Schools is expanding training with more resources to educate
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school leaders and communities about the challenges facing trans and non-binary youth and their families.
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And the list goes on. Clymer lays out actually 13 new trans-affirming initiatives from the White
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House today and notes that it's only a partial list. But let's focus for a moment on just the first three
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items. You'll now be allowed to put your gender down as X on your passport. Now, the whole point of a
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passport, of course, is to provide information about your physical identity so that governments can document
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and keep records of who is coming and going. That's why we have passports. So if they're going to let
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you put X as your gender on your passport because that's how you feel, whatever the hell it means to
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feel like an X, they might as well let you change your date of birth to better align with your self
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perception. I was born on June 18th, 1986, but sometimes I feel like somebody who was born on April
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4th, 1991, or August 7th, 1948. I feel like that sometimes. How does that feel? It just feels how I
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feel. I'm not asking any questions about it. Why can't I change my passport to reflect that? Really,
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if identity is fluid, then we shouldn't have passports at all. I mean, all the passport does
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at best is capture my identity on the moment when I applied for it and took the picture.
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But no passport can truly encapsulate the full essence of my ever-evolving being.
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Now, you might point out that this passport change is total insanity for many reasons,
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not the least of which being that the rest of the world has not signed on to this.
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Your passport as an American is meant to get you into other countries. But most other countries in the
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world, especially in the non-Western world, do not recognize the gender of X. You're going to have
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a lot of trouble explaining your X gender to the customs agent over in Iran or Tanzania.
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Has the Biden administration taken that into account? I mean, have they coordinated with every
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other government in the world to make sure that this is going to be recognized? Well, of course not.
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These are important practical concerns, but important practical concerns have no weight
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when stacked up against a trans person's desire to be affirmed. And as established,
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all of human society must be reorganized for that purpose. It's our highest purpose as a
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civilization. It's our only purpose. That's why we're all here. Did you know that? It's just to
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affirm LGBT people. It's the only reason you exist. Now, that explains why all of these changes are
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also being made to the airport screening process. Now, at least the changes there, if this actually
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happens, they reduce the airport strip searches, make the screening process less invasive, etc.
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Those are mostly positive. I mean, that's assuming that this will be the case for everybody and not
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just trans people. They're making it less invasive for everybody. If that's the case, that's a big if,
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then I would call that a positive change. But consider the fact that travelers at American
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airports have been treated like suspected drug smugglers and terrorists for 20 years. I mean,
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for 20 years, just the simple fact that you want to get on a Delta Airlines flight and fly to
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Cincinnati or something, that alone meant that you are suspected of terrorism and they're going to
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treat you as if they have reasonable suspicion of a crime. So they're going to do all these searches
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and everything else. So they've been doing that for 20 years. They've been doing pat-downs on old
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ladies in wheelchairs and making kids remove their shoes in case the, you know, the little nine-year-old
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is sneaking explosives in his Velcro Nikes. They've been doing all of this for multiple decades, no matter
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how much we complained about it. But all it took was a few trans people feeling uncomfortable and suddenly the
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whole system is being retooled. You know, you had an old lady complains about it and they say,
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shut up, granny. But then a trans person complains and they say, oh no, I'm so sorry. Well, here,
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let's just completely change everything for your sake. I'm sorry to have offended you. Please forgive
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us. If that's not privilege and power, I don't know what is. Now, those in the audience who are
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a little bit younger and only became politically aware a few years ago, or maybe people who are
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older and still only became politically aware a few years ago, may be surprised to learn that LGBT
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activism, at least in the mainstream, had a much different tone as recently as eight or nine years ago.
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There have always been the militant factions and now there are only militant factions, but up until
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recently, the LGBT rights, quote unquote, movement marched under banners that said things like, you know,
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we just want to be left alone and what two consenting adults do in their bedrooms doesn't affect you.
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And we just want tolerance. Now, the more perceptive among us, such as yours truly,
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recognized at the time that these claims and slogans were nothing but a cover story.
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But lots of people took it all at face value, believing that the activists really just wanted
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to live their own lives in peace and nothing more. Those people have been taken by surprise now,
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shocked to learn that actually what the activists want is not to be left alone or to be tolerated,
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but to have all of society, our laws, our institutions, our lives revolve around them
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and their desires. And now, everyone is finally learning that fact, but it's a little late in the
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game, unfortunately. Now let's get to our five headlines. All right, so going to back down to
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Florida and the backlash over the parental rights bill with people on the left still just unable to
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contain their outrage that they won't be able to, at least in Florida, talk to kids at least under the
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age of like third grade and younger about sexuality. I want to actually start by playing a couple clips
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for you because I thought these were interesting. Here's Raven Simone, who is an actress or what is
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she a singer? I don't know what she does. Oh, actress, I'm being told. Okay, so Raven Simone is an actress
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and who knows what. And she is also on TikTok, she was on the Today Show and on TikTok speaking out
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about the don't say gay bill, which people like her invented and doesn't exist. I want you to listen to
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what she says because she actually says something that I kind of agree with. Listen.
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I'm going to say this, and this is my thing. If there's a don't say gay bill, there should be a
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don't say straight bill because it's not fair. And there are multiple kinds of humans in this world
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and you are ruining the psyche, the confidence of so many young children because you are discrediting
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their parents, the people they love, the people that raise them, the people that teach them the
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manners when they walk into that school room. So if you're not going to honor their family,
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your family shouldn't be honored either. So let's just make it even slash equal.
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No part of that made sense whatsoever. This is a parental rights bill and somehow it dishonors
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parents. So now she's concerned about parents. Parents are the ones saying, I don't want you
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talking to my kids about this stuff. That's what parents are saying. So you're dishonoring parents
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by not. So as a parent, if I send my six-year-old to public school in Florida, I am being dishonored
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if the first grade teacher doesn't talk to my kid about their sexuality. I mean, think about how
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confused and deranged you have to be to see things that way. But she does say that if we're going to
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have a don't say gay bill, we should have a don't say straight bill. And we don't have a don't say
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gay bill. But in this fantasy scenario where we do, don't say straight, fine. I'm good with that.
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Yeah, let's not talk about that either. That's the point. There's no reason why you should be
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taught, why you need to sit down with a seven-year-old in elementary school and talk about gay,
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straight, anything. Anything sexual related. You don't need to talk about it. So absolutely.
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Yeah, I'm on board for that. I don't want you, you don't need to teach a seven-year-old about
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gayness. Neither do you need to sit down and teach them about straightness, whatever exactly that would
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entail. I feel the same way about it as I do about this, the debate about sex ed. And, you know,
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for so long it was, do we have comprehensive sex ed education or do we have abstinence education?
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Well, I think abstinence education, if you're going to do it, is better than the so-called
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comprehensive sex ed, but I'd prefer neither. How about just don't talk about it? How about you as a
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public school teacher? You don't need to have this kind of conversation with my kids, whether
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you're talking about abstinence or not. I mean, yeah, it's the worst thing is for public school
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teachers to be, you know, telling kids about how to put on condoms and that sort of thing.
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That's obviously wildly inappropriate, but I also don't, I don't really, I'm not going to entrust
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a conversation about abstinence with some random public school teacher either.
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It's an important message, but you can leave that to me to talk about. I don't want you to do it.
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I don't trust you to do it. I don't trust you to handle that subject. And it's not appropriate
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for you to be talking about it to kids who are not your own. So yeah, you don't want, you don't want
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to kids to be taught about being straight in sick when they're six years old. Sure. That's not,
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I don't even know what that would mean exactly. And it's not happening, but I'm on board for that.
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Just stick to the actual academic subjects that are appropriate for their age. How about that for
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an idea? One other quick clip. So a non-binary teacher has, is speaking out as so many others are
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trying to explain why it's so important for this person who I believe is a female to be able to talk
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about this. Let's listen. It makes me very angry when people don't want to talk about gender and
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sexuality in classrooms, um, specifically for the reasons that students won't understand. Um, because
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in my experience with teaching, that is never the case. Um, I'm a non-binary teacher and I use
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the title mix. Um, and today I had 12 new students and I just go, hi, my name is mix for BQ. I use mix
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instead of miss. It's a little bit different, but I'm still a teacher just the same. And they got it
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right away. I got mixed instead of missed all day. Um, and it makes it, it confuses me when people use that,
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um, excuse that children won't understand because students are very intelligent and they're learning
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all day. It's not hard for them to learn a different type of title. Mix. How stupid does this
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get? And in a way it kind of makes sense. You know, mix you are, you are pretty mixed up. It sounds like,
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um, but no, that's the kids who went along with it. That's not them understanding. There's nothing
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to understand. It's nonsense. Um, nobody at any age can understand the concept of being non-binary
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because it's incoherent. And so it's impossible to understand for anyone. It's not that they
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understand it. They just go along with it because they're kids. And also because they probably even at
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a young age, I don't know how young her kids are, but it sounds like they're pretty young. Um,
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her rather, I should say her students, the kids in her class, uh, no, they, they, they go along with
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it. And no matter how young they are, they've probably also already noticed that they're in a
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social environment where they have to just accept this kind of thing. Even if it occurred to them to
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ask questions about it, a lot of kids that won't occur to them to ask questions about it.
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They tend to just accept whatever, whatever reality is presented to them. A lot of adults do
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that too. Kids, especially. But even if they thought, even if they had questions about it or
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were unsure or felt a little weird or strange, um, given the social environment they're in, they
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would, they would, these kids are not going to say that out loud because of the consequences they
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would face for it. Social consequences and even actual, you know, penalties from their teachers
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and administrators. So when you tell a bunch of nonsense to a kid and they sit there with a
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blank expression and kind of nod their heads and say, okay, that's not them understanding.
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That's them cooperating. Um, that's them being brainwashed perhaps because it's not hard to do
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with little kids, but no, that's, that is, that's not what understanding is. But this is yet another
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teacher who just like the kindergarten teacher we heard from yesterday, um, as far as they're
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concerned, the kids are there to hear about them. These teachers think that this is what it's all
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about. This is what the kids are there for to hear about them and their own lives. So their own
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experiences. All right. Fox news has, uh, this story, um, says Jose Castillo, a current Walt Disney
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company employee who's running for Congress in Florida as a Republican told Fox news digital
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digital that the silent majority of Disney employees support the parental rights law,
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uh, despite the loud minority leading Disney to take a stance against the law, which critics have
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branded the don't say gay bill. Um, Castillo said there's immense pressure to tow the company line.
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However, the reality is that those drawing attached to this as you are in the minority,
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the Disney cast members who support the parental rights defended by HB 1557 far outnumber those who
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are protesting it. I am so tired of hearing about silent majorities. I mean, it, it's probably true.
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I would guess that most, I mean, Disney has tens of thousands of employees and it's probably true
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spread all across the globe. And so it's probably true that the majority of them
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agree that we shouldn't be talking to seven-year-olds about their sexuality.
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But I'm so sick of hearing about the silent majority. It honestly makes me sick.
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It makes me even more sick when conservatives take solace in it and are kind of like proud of it and
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say, you see, the silent majority agrees with us. Why are you being silent? That makes it worse,
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not better. I would rather, when you look at what's happening with Disney, I would rather think,
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I would rather believe that 90% of Disney employees are as insane as the, these LGBT activists that are
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pushing Disney in this direction. I'd rather think that, you know, 90% of them, all of them are on
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board with it. That would be less frustrating to me and also even slightly less concerning
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than what we're hearing about here. That this is just a small sliver of the company, a small
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minority. Everybody else knows that it's crazy and they're not saying anything about it.
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I don't want to hear about silent majorities anymore.
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Because if you're in the majority and you're being silent, then it's, we're not, we're not on the
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same, if we're on the same side, but you're silent, then we're not actually on the same side.
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Um, you are on the other side, giving your affirmation through your silence.
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That's what's happening. I don't want to hear about silent majorities.
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Look, I get it. If you speak up and you're at Disney, if you're the only one to speak up,
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then they're just going to, they're going to throw your ass out. You're, you're done. You're
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going to get fired. I understand that. Now, if 80% or whatever of Disney employees don't agree
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with this and all of them, or even a good portion of them speak up, well, they can't
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fire everybody. But even then it's still, you're still put, you're still putting something
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on the line. It's still a risk. Even if you all speak up as a group. So either way, I
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totally understand this part of it, that if you speak up, you face consequences. Speak
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up at your job, you face consequences. You could lose your job. That's no small thing.
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You got kids to feed. I get it. I understand generally in society, it's the same deal.
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You speak up, you face, you could face serious penalties for it. Just like I understand the
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women on these sports teams where men are invading. If they really protested vocally, put their
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name and face on that protest, not just doing it anonymously. They face serious consequences,
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but at a certain point, you have to be willing to put something on the line. I mean, what's
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at stake here is our whole society is at stake. Are we going to just careen at full speed into
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total madness and leave that kind of world for our kids? Is this the world we're going
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to leave for them? Because we're afraid to say anything and we don't want to lose our
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job. And so we stay silent and just watch as our whole civilization marches off a cliff
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and everything is splintered and broken on the jagged rocks below. And then we, you know,
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our time on earth is done and we say to our kids, okay, well have fun with this. Hope you
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figure this one out. Is that what we're going to do? Or are we going to speak up now and say
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something? You know, one of the excuses people have now for not speaking up and not saying
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something. And I imagine a lot of the employees at Disney, the silent majority, one of the reasons
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they would give, if you were to ask them why they're not saying anything is, well, I've got
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kids. And if I lose my job, it's going to make it harder to care for my kids. And I get it. But
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if you don't speak up, then yeah, you'll be able to take care of your kids financially a little bit,
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a little bit easier, but you've made it a lot hard. So you made your kids, you made, if you don't
00:24:34.580
speak up, then your kids' lives right now will be easier. But their lives in the future, based on
00:24:41.540
the culture and society that we're giving them, it's going to be a lot harder because of your
00:24:45.080
silence. So I'm tired of the excuses. Sometimes courage is called for in life. And this is one
00:24:52.720
of those times. You know, you got to, we got to stand up and do something. Speaking of which,
00:24:58.880
good transition here. The Daily Wire is, is doing something when it comes to many of these
00:25:05.720
problems, but especially when it comes to the leftist activism in, in children's entertainment.
00:25:13.160
So it was announced yesterday, the God King Jeremy Boring held a town hall, which was, which we
00:25:17.040
live streamed. And I guess we have, we have a clip of it. We do. Okay. So Jeremy's announcing our new
00:25:22.860
initiative here at Daily Wire. We've got so many things going on. It seems like every day we're
00:25:25.700
announcing a new thing, but it's an exciting time. And so this is the, uh, the latest venture of ours.
00:25:30.720
And let's listen to that. Because of the great reporting of Chris Ruffo, we got to see leaked
00:25:36.860
footage from inside Disney of high up Disney employees saying things like we have a not so
00:25:43.360
secret gay agenda, saying things like we insert, we, we, uh, make sure I get this quote, right.
00:25:51.520
We're adding in queerness wherever we can. And that quote, no one is trying to stop the producer
00:25:59.400
who was doing so. Another executive within the company said, if anything, we don't have enough
00:26:05.020
LGBTQIA representation in content made for very small children.
00:26:11.160
So what are we going to do about it? Well, we're going to do the same thing we always do. We're
00:26:16.540
going to build alternatives. Americans have enormous economic might. They just don't have
00:26:22.040
any alternatives. The Daily Wire is building those alternatives. And today I'm proud to tell you
00:26:27.400
that we will be launching Daily Wire Kids. Our best days can be ahead. Walt Disney said we can
00:26:33.540
accomplish all of our dreams can come true if we believe that's what we're saying. We have to
00:26:41.300
believe in that future. I don't think that the future that the Disney company is building today
00:26:45.680
is the future that Walt Disney dreamed of. I think that it's the future that's actually only being
00:26:53.440
dreamed of by a tiny segment of radicalized extreme left. I don't think that your average
00:27:00.520
Democrat wants their kids having those values inculcated in them. I don't think that anyone
00:27:06.240
in this country wants it except a tiny minority. So let them spend all of their money alienating
00:27:11.720
everybody. And we'll be over here waiting. We believe in our Daily Wire audience. We believe
00:27:16.720
that they will subscribe. In fact, if you're watching right now and you're not a dailywire.com
00:27:21.040
subscriber, I'm asking you not for a donation. I'm asking you not begging. I'm asking you go buy
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something. Something of real value. Go buy a membership to the Daily Wire. Go buy a membership
00:27:33.580
to Jeremy's Razors. Put your money where your mouth is. Come take part with us in building the
00:27:40.900
future. In fact, if you go to dailywire.com slash build the future right now, you can become a
00:27:45.600
dailywire.com member. If you want to, because I know the price is high, if you want to save a little
00:27:50.540
money, you could use promo code build the future and we'll give you 45% off. Or don't. Because we need
00:27:57.620
all the money that we can get. What is it worth to you? What's it worth to you to have content that
00:28:03.820
you can trust your children with? What's it worth to you to have entertainment that doesn't sucker
00:28:07.800
punch you every time you turn it on? What's it worth to you to have a good shave without believing
00:28:13.380
that the company that's selling you the razor wants to cut your throat? Figuratively.
00:28:20.700
So Daily Wire Kids will be, we're putting a lot of money into this investing. It'll be,
00:28:25.440
it'll be officially launched next year. But yeah, this is the time. This is the time to subscribe,
00:28:32.120
become a subscriber, help us in this, this mission. I mean, I know as a parent,
00:28:36.540
even before all this stuff with Disney, this is, you talk to other parents, it's like one of the,
00:28:41.640
one of the primary complaints that you have. And there's a lot of reasons to complain as a parent
00:28:45.140
in modern society. But this is what, this is one of the main things that, you know, it's,
00:28:51.100
you want to find just some entertainment for your kids. It's not that you want to put your kid,
00:28:55.620
or at least you shouldn't want to put your kid in front of a TV all day. And there are parents
00:28:58.820
that do that and they shouldn't, but why should it be so hard to find at least some entertainment
00:29:05.380
for your kids that they can just watch? And it's, and you can be confident that there's not going to
00:29:12.380
be not just like little hints of liberalism here and there, but far left activism in the entertainment
00:29:20.080
itself. And I know from experience, just like any other parent knows, it's very hard. You cannot
00:29:26.160
trust anything these days. You can't just put on any show and say, oh, that'll be fine. Up until
00:29:34.100
a year ago, you know, eight or nine months ago, you might've thought you could do that with a show
00:29:39.940
like, I don't know, Blue's Clues. You would've thought about Blue's Clues. It's a show about
00:29:44.520
a cartoon dog and he's going around his house looking for a stapler or something. And that's
00:29:48.600
like the whole episode. How could you possibly make that into far left radicalism? Well, now you
00:29:56.220
turn on Blue's Clues and you see episodes with talking about, with drag queens singing about
00:30:00.520
pansexuals. So that's how bad it's gotten. That's why we've got Daily Wire kids. Go to dailywire.com
00:30:06.800
and become a subscriber today. Okay. So from the Daily Wire as well, it says a Buffalo-based
00:30:11.160
lesbian couple is suing CNY Fertility Clinic in New York for allegedly giving them the wrong embryo.
00:30:19.800
Heather Wilhelm Routenberg and Robin Routenberg Wilhelm explicitly requested that they have a baby
00:30:25.320
daughter after undergoing fertility treatments. However, the couple was devastated to find out
00:30:30.140
that they were expecting a son. Now they're responding with legal action against the fertility
00:30:34.600
clinic, claiming that Heather became suicidal after her son's birth and entered a dark depression
00:30:38.900
upon finding out that she was carrying a baby boy. Upon first finding out the child was male at her
00:30:45.060
15-week appointment, Heather said she became convinced the IVF clinic mixed up the embryos
00:30:48.760
that she was actually carrying somebody else's baby. Heather told Amy Klein at the Post,
00:30:53.420
I looked at Robbie and said, what if it's not yours? Who's in my body? That's when I flipped out.
00:30:59.220
Um, continuing, uh, we scheduled an ultrasound for the next day. That was the worst night of my life.
00:31:05.880
I had this overwhelming sense of immobility. I remember lying in my bedroom thinking this can't
00:31:10.060
be happening. Not only was the baby in my body, not ours, but the baby in my body was male and he
00:31:15.540
was put there against my will, just like rape. Um, and then it goes on. I can't even continue reading
00:31:22.620
this entire thing. It's so disgusting, but they gave birth to the, to the child. And now they're
00:31:31.000
saying it's, it's as if she was raped. So who is the rapist in this analogy? The baby? I suppose
00:31:38.580
that's what it's looked at, how it seemed. Now she says that this child was putting my body against my
00:31:44.140
will. Of course, that's not the case at all. You, you very much chose to undergo this procedure.
00:31:49.040
And this is one of the consequences of when, when we treat human life, like a commodity
00:31:58.080
and we treat conception, like some sort of science experiment that we do in a Petri dish.
00:32:05.440
Okay. This is one of the consequences. And I don't mean consequence of embryos could get mixed up or
00:32:10.020
whatever, and you don't get exactly what you ordered, ordered. I mean, that is one of the
00:32:13.680
consequences, but just think about the way we're talking about this. You ordered it like it's a catalog,
00:32:18.780
like you ordered a, you know, jacket from LL Bean or something. And this is human life.
00:32:24.760
And the real consequence is that you start to see human life as a commodity. And then what you get
00:32:30.120
the wrong one, quote unquote, and you want to return it and you're suing because it was a, you know,
00:32:34.520
a mistake in the customer service end of things. Treating human life like a commodity. That's the
00:32:41.060
consequence. And where it all becomes about you, right? So for this lesbian couple, the child is
00:32:50.800
all about them. They're having this child to serve their own emotional needs. It's not about the child.
00:32:57.840
It's not about loving the child and caring for the child. It's about them.
00:33:04.400
And they also believe, and this is another problem with, you know, the surrogacy, IVF,
00:33:12.380
all this stuff, is that it carries with it this idea that you have a right. We talked about this
00:33:19.800
last week. It's like this idea that you have a, you have a right to a child when in fact you don't.
00:33:26.580
Now, if you have a child as a parent, then you have a right to care for your children.
00:33:30.520
If they're not have that superseded by the government, those are your parental rights.
00:33:34.680
But you don't have an underlying human right to have a child to begin with.
00:33:40.460
That's not a right that exists, but that's the way we see it now.
00:33:44.340
And so these women thought, well, I have a right. I have a right to a child. And then I get the,
00:33:47.660
I get to quote the wrong one. Well, my rights have been infringed upon. And so now you have to
00:33:51.800
pay me. So that's the consequence of treating human life like it's a commodity. This is just
00:33:56.040
one, it's one of the more egregious examples, but we see it all the time in our society. Now,
00:33:59.720
moving on to this, the Will Smith slapper around the world continues to draw reactions. And it's
00:34:08.580
pretty clear now that at least on, on the race hustling left, you know, the, the, the narrative is that
00:34:16.140
he's entitled to respond that way because, well, because he's a, a, a black man in defense of,
00:34:22.940
of his wife. And so he's, I guess, entitled to, to, to hit anybody that he wants to hit.
00:34:28.300
And also what we're being told, and here's one viral video from someone who's making this point
00:34:33.060
that if you're a white person, you really shouldn't be talking about this at all. It's
00:34:37.580
this, it's not your place. Like Will Smith can walk up on stage during the Oscars and physically
00:34:41.960
assault someone. And he's entitled to do that. But if you're a white person, you're not entitled
00:34:46.660
to even have an opinion about it. At least that's what we're told. Listen.
00:34:53.080
What happened at the Oscars is not something white people need to speak on right away. There
00:34:56.660
is so much nuance and complexity and layers that you will not be able to understand through your
00:35:01.720
white experience without education and listening to specifically black women, which we all know many
00:35:07.600
people don't. So when you share your perspective or your education on what you perceive to have
00:35:13.200
happened last night, it's coming through your white lens, which has you on a place of moral high
00:35:17.800
ground. Black's understanding of black trauma has such an emphasis on this binary of who is good or
00:35:23.060
who is bad centers violence only actually continues to minimize black women and their pain. And most
00:35:29.260
annoyingly continues to center yourself on that really just is not your business. So just take some
00:35:34.800
time. Take a minute. You don't have to respond right away. Really try and look at the entire
00:35:39.580
situation before you speak on the shiny, easy grab. Because what you fail to see through your white
00:35:45.340
lens was the actual violence occurring. The continued violence that is ableism and that is misogynoir.
00:35:52.460
Oh, okay. Well, yeah, just let us know, whoever you are, when we're allowed to speak and have an
00:35:58.080
opinion about this event that occurred and we all saw and everybody was talking about. Just let us know.
00:36:02.380
Just, you know, we'll all shut up collectively and we'll wait for you, whoever you are on TikTok.
00:36:09.700
Because we're the entitled ones, right? We're the ones who are entitled. I mean, she's just
00:36:14.200
instructing an entire race of people, letting us know the opinions we're allowed to have and not have.
00:36:19.500
But we're entitled. Oh, no. And also, we're trying to make it about us, not her. She's not the one
00:36:24.500
doing that. We're doing that. If you're wondering about this misogynoir term, and it's a new
00:36:32.080
leftist buzzword every day, and this seems to be, or at least every week, every week there's a new
00:36:36.240
one. This is the leftist buzz phrase of the week. And it's, I just looked it up because that's not
00:36:41.960
the first time I've heard it this week. Misogynoir is, according to Wikipedia, is misogyny directed
00:36:48.080
towards black women where race and gender both play roles in bias. The term was coined by black
00:36:54.540
feminist Moya Bailey in 2010. And now it's, so it's, that's the other thing they do is like,
00:37:00.020
you take this term that just some random leftist came up with. And then, and like two people have
00:37:07.140
ever heard in their lives. And then they just start like using it as if everyone is supposed to know
00:37:11.520
what this gibberish means. But it's very effective because then people do exactly what I just did
00:37:16.420
there. You look it up like, what does that, what does that mean? Okay. And then it enters into the
00:37:20.640
lexicon. So, um, if, if a black woman is the subject of alleged sexism, it's not good enough
00:37:27.420
to just say misogyny like everybody else. So she gets her special label, which is misogynoir and all
00:37:33.200
this, this whole thing is very nuanced, the whole situation. Well, it's actually not nuanced at all.
00:37:37.060
It's like, it's probably one of the least nuanced public events in recent memory.
00:37:45.640
It was someone standing up at an award show and slapping another guy because they didn't like a joke
00:37:49.300
that was being told. There's no nuance to it whatsoever. Very straightforward.
00:37:54.480
All right. This, um, quick follow-up from the Daily Wire says, Representative Madison Cawthorn,
00:37:58.980
um, allegedly admitted to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy during a meeting on Wednesday that
00:38:03.160
his claims that senior lawmakers have used cocaine in front of him and invited him to their homes for
00:38:07.820
orgies are not true. Played the clip yesterday of Madison Cawthorn on some podcast making comparison
00:38:14.020
to House of Cards and saying that real life DC is similar to House of Cards and claiming that he
00:38:19.120
had actually been invited to orgies, um, involving other members of Congress. Only, uh, he said that
00:38:24.360
he was invited the way he phrased it to sexual get togethers and that he also had witnessed
00:38:30.340
other politicians, uh, using cocaine right in front of him. And, um, this led to outrage among
00:38:37.680
members of Congress. You might say they protest a little bit too much. And, um,
00:38:43.600
and now they're saying, uh, McCarthy is saying that he admitted that it was, uh, that it was an
00:38:48.960
exaggeration. Um, although he has not said that himself. Here's, here's what I'll say. Like I said
00:38:54.700
yesterday, it, it does not seem at all outlandish to me that this kind of thing goes on. I mean,
00:39:02.980
we know it goes on. We had, uh, we, we had, like we talked about yesterday, a member of Congress
00:39:09.820
having threesomes with her staff members. So we know this kind of thing goes on drug use. I'm sure
00:39:15.440
it goes on. Um, do they invite each other to these events that explicitly? I don't know.
00:39:26.240
So I don't know whether Madison Cawthorne actually, you know, encountered this or not,
00:39:32.380
but I, but I will say that if you did encounter something like that, then you should name names.
00:39:38.040
Like I'm, I'm willing to believe that this stuff goes on, but if you were, if you know about it,
00:39:45.540
you know, who's doing it, if you actually saw a member of Congress, you know, do cocaine right
00:39:51.320
in front of you, then tell us who put names attached to it. That's the other thing I'm sick
00:39:57.760
of along with the silent majority. I'm, I'm tired of hearing these stories. Oh yeah. The things I've
00:40:02.140
seen, you wouldn't believe, but tell me about it. You've watched, you've watched members of
00:40:07.320
Congress, break the law right in front of you. Tell us who did it, put their name on it. If you're
00:40:11.820
not going to do it, then just, there's no point in bringing it up to begin with. Let's get now to
00:40:17.260
the comment section. All right. We've got one video comment of somebody who has actually dared to
00:40:32.960
disagree with me, I believe. And let's listen to him make his argument.
00:40:37.200
Hi, Matt. I respectfully disagree with you on the point that you made regarding that Republicans
00:40:43.600
voted to pass the anti-lynching bill. You said they should have voted against it. I would say no,
00:40:49.460
because if they voted against it, they would have given the Democrats exactly what they want.
00:40:56.080
So we know that Democrats are race hustlers. They keep making up straw men regarding racism in the
00:41:04.760
country so that they give the American people the impression that they are the party that is
00:41:10.300
fighting for a quote unquote racial justice. So if Republicans didn't vote to pass the anti-lynching
00:41:16.300
bill, they would have given them exactly what they want. They would have given Democrats
00:41:20.080
a huge ammo for years to come. So I'm glad they voted to pass it. But at the same time,
00:41:29.680
they should have pointed out that it is a charade. We're voting for it, but we know it's just a
00:41:37.620
charade. But because we're always the party that looks at people as equal human beings, that's what
00:41:52.540
Well, don't give me that at the end after you've dared to contradict me on my own show. No, I look,
00:41:57.800
I completely disagree with you. For one thing, they cannot vote for it and then say we're voting
00:42:05.020
for it, but it's a charade. None of them did, right? I mean, they just voted for it and didn't
00:42:08.280
talk about it. The few members, the few Republicans who called it a charade, called it what it is,
00:42:13.740
didn't vote for it. And that's the way it has to be. If you're going to vote for it, you can't also
00:42:17.780
come out and say this is all empty virtue signaling because then the obvious comeback is, well, why
00:42:23.520
are you voting for it then? So you're voting for something that you know that you acknowledge is
00:42:27.340
an empty charade. You're wasting everyone's time and you're voting for it anyway. It just makes you
00:42:31.000
a coward. You're amplifying your own cowardice. You're admitting to it if you do that. So either
00:42:36.900
you vote for it and you say nothing or you don't vote for it, you explain why. Those are the only
00:42:44.800
two options that you really have. And they chose the path of least resistance, the most cowardly path
00:42:50.880
as always, and just voted for it. And yes, I understand that's the reason why. The reason
00:42:55.380
that you outline is the reason why they voted for it. It's because they didn't want the headline,
00:42:58.580
oh, Republicans vote against, um, vote against anti-lynching law, but they're still going to be
00:43:06.180
subject to the racism charge regardless. This doesn't change that at all. So it really doesn't
00:43:12.440
make a difference. And rather than just assuming that the left is going to win the narrative game
00:43:20.260
ahead of time, so you don't even play, rather than doing that, how about counteract the narrative?
00:43:25.660
Explain why. It can't just be a couple of Republicans, but they all have to be on the
00:43:31.260
same page or at least most of them. And you flip it back around. See that you're assuming just like
00:43:37.460
the Republicans do that they're going to lose the narrative battle ahead of time. So they don't
00:43:41.260
even bother. And it's not like this is only, I mean, it is only empty virtue signaling, but
00:43:48.680
it's not like it has a neutral effect because the point of passing this bill, yeah, it's to give
00:43:56.900
Democrats a chance to virtue signal. It's to give Joe Biden a chance to virtue signal, but also it's
00:44:02.040
to send the message, to give the impression to the American people that this kind of bill is number
00:44:08.020
one necessary and number two, um, had not been passed in the past because of racism. So all at once
00:44:16.380
they're sending a, they're, they're reaffirming this false narrative about America's past and our
00:44:23.100
present because the impression they want to give to people is that, well, we need an anti-lynching
00:44:28.620
law because people are still getting lynched, which isn't true. And also that this law was never,
00:44:33.480
was never, um, was never signed in the past because of, uh, because of all the systemic racism,
00:44:38.800
racism, which is also not true. So it's not a neutral thing. You go along with it and you're
00:44:45.260
also, you're not just going along with the bill itself. You're going along with the narrative
00:44:49.120
that is attached to it. I mean, what's next? What if, what if, uh, I mean, next they're going to
00:44:57.580
sign a law, they're going to have a law specifying that you're not allowed to, I don't know,
00:45:03.240
burn gay people at the stake. We need, we need a specific law for that. Even though that's already
00:45:10.560
illegal, 15 different ways to Sunday, we need a specific law for that. The anti-burning gay people
00:45:16.420
at the stake law. You're going to vote for that too. I mean, let's just go through each hypothetical
00:45:22.000
violent act that could be, that horrible violent act that could be committed. And we need a federal
00:45:26.640
law specifically against each of those things. Where does it end? Should Republicans go along
00:45:34.100
with that as well? No, at a certain point, how about just going with the truth, telling people
00:45:39.500
the truth, trusting people to understand it. All right, let's see. Jared Hyman says,
00:45:45.640
little bit of fact checking things that are falling do not continue to accelerate indefinitely. They
00:45:50.640
eventually reach terminal velocity, which it does seem like Disney has now reached a lot of,
00:45:54.660
a lot of comments correcting me on the physics. I knew I should not have made an analogy that had
00:45:58.800
to do with physics, but in fairness to me, I never said that things fall indefinitely and,
00:46:03.080
or rather increase in velocity indefinitely. I just said they increase in velocity, then they hit the
00:46:06.740
ground, whatever. But then I also, I switched the, I switched the analogy and then I was talking about
00:46:11.560
black holes and what happens there. I mean, I imagine your velocity increases as you enter into the
00:46:17.200
black hole, right? Or we're just going to, we're going to stop. I'm going to, I'm going to quit while I'm behind.
00:46:24.660
DNA Studios says, one thing about the Will Smith thing is if it was real, why at the moment his
00:46:32.160
hand slapped Rock's face, there was a thud. Now, if you've ever slapped someone's skin, it doesn't
00:46:37.060
sound like a thud. Think about that one. I know it just, it sounds like someone getting slapped in
00:46:42.500
the face. Just why are you so desperate for this to be a conspiracy? There, there are enough actual
00:46:47.900
real world conspiracies that we don't need this one. This, this is not only a dumb conspiracy
00:46:56.120
theory, but it's the lamest one imaginable. It's like, focus your energies elsewhere is what I
00:47:02.480
would say. All is grace says is someone who is multiple, who has multiple rare diseases, as well
00:47:08.680
as a mother of a young daughter who has the same and has ADHD. This false diversity and inclusion can be
00:47:13.860
very irritating. How many disabled and or neurodiverse people does Disney include in their
00:47:19.420
offerings? This is not coming from a victim mentality mindset. There are legitimate diversities out there
00:47:24.480
and our world could be a much better place for all of us if those who wanted to be inclusive really
00:47:29.540
were. But alas, it's not about that. It's about the agenda. I understand what you're saying. I can't,
00:47:34.840
I can't go along with you here. I can't, I can't join you on this ride because number one,
00:47:38.320
you're using the ridiculous term neurodiverse. Um, but also how about this? Um, just tell good
00:47:49.360
stories, like have the characters in the stories that need to be there in order for it to be a
00:47:55.360
compelling story. I don't think we need to counter the leftist thing about diversity and inclusion by
00:48:01.740
saying, Oh, you know what? Uh, no, they actually don't have enough diversity and inclusion. We need
00:48:06.400
even more of it. I don't, I don't think that's the right response. It's just tell the story.
00:48:12.320
We don't need to have a chart where we're keeping track. Okay. Do we have this identity
00:48:17.260
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Today, I'm pleased to cancel Ms. Ayo Sakai. She describes herself as an author, poet, political
00:49:16.520
scientist, and linguist activist. I can only assume she added something as nonsensical and meaningless
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as linguist activist into her bio to distract from how nonsensical and meaningless the term political
00:49:26.540
scientist already is. But in any case, all of these titles are secondary to Ms. Sakai. As she explained in
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a viral tweet, the most important thing that you should know about her and the thing that you really
00:49:37.420
must know, everyone must know it, they must know it simply by looking at her somehow. The most important
00:49:43.220
detail is that she has a PhD. So she posted, it is time to normalize the doctorate. It is not miss,
00:49:50.120
it's doctor. It's not Mrs., Mr., Sir, or Ma'am. It's doctor. Not only at conferences, seminars,
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or academic spaces, it's at the grocery store, the hospital, the church, the airport, children's
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schools. It's doctor! Exclamation point. Okay, chief, whatever you say. Now, before we engage with
00:50:06.800
this in more detail, we should note all of the other whiny academics in the comments who concurred.
00:50:12.200
For example, Margaret Maloney, PhD, says, I'm with you on this. Why should I be made to feel like I'm
00:50:17.520
being snotty because I want to be called by my official title and not Miss or Ma'am? But Dr.
00:50:22.380
Elizabeth Craig agreed, I literally have a visceral reaction when I'm in a setting that I should be
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called doctor and I'm called Miss or Mrs. Dr. Sean Helfian offered this, this aversion to using earned
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honorifics from accredited institutions reveals more the intellectual inferiority complex of the people
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who refuse to accept them than the justified insistence of those who earn them. By the way, Dr. Sean is a
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plant ecologist. He spent seven years reading about plants and he wants you to acknowledge that fact
00:50:52.080
every time you address him. You can't just say, hey, Sean, or hey, you self-important, pompous,
00:50:57.820
little, useless goober, which would be more accurate. You must say Dr. Sean or Dr. self-important,
00:51:03.860
pompous, little, useless goober. Whatever you say, Sean needs you to make verbal note of all of the
00:51:09.280
ecology textbooks he read. Of course, even if you're the sort of person who would be inclined to stroke the
00:51:15.000
ego of fragile, narcissistic, alleged intellectuals like these, you may still be confused as to how
00:51:20.500
you're supposed to know that they have these academic credentials. Sakai wants you to call her
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doctor at the grocery store. Well, is she wearing her cap and gown to the grocery store? Does she
00:51:30.960
walk around with a sandwich board sign with a resume written on it? Actually, if she did, the sign would
00:51:36.000
be blank because she has no resume. None of these people do anything or have any discernible skills.
00:51:40.600
The point is just that the doctorate is not public knowledge. Unless you spread word about your
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doctorate through a media PR campaign, a la Jill Biden, most people simply aren't going to know
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otherwise. And if they do know, who cares? Why should they have to address you accordingly?
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I'm unlikely to call even a medical doctor doctor outside of a medical context. The funny thing,
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though, is that most medical doctors I know don't insist on being called doctor. The doctors who seem
00:52:07.040
hell-bent on being called doctors are the fake doctors, like the ones in this Twitter thread and
00:52:11.780
the one married to the president. You can't at least see why it might be useful to identify and
00:52:17.080
acknowledge medical doctors in everyday life. Situations can arise where a doctor might be
00:52:21.780
needed. So, you know, there's that reason alone. There's a practical reason why it's nice to know who
00:52:27.480
the doctors are. But it's hard to imagine an emergency that would require a plant ecologist.
00:52:32.000
As essential and necessary as Ayo Sakai might see herself. I doubt there's ever been a time
00:52:37.540
when somebody rushed into a room and shouted, help, we need a political scientist, hurry.
00:52:42.900
Also, a linguist activist would be helpful as well if we get both. But this is all part of the
00:52:48.080
narcissism of the age, I think. There's a reason why people who put titles in front of their names
00:52:52.560
and letters after them are also prone to listing their pronouns. It's the same sort of thing.
00:52:56.260
People are constantly seeking to be affirmed, acknowledged, you know, because they're empty inside.
00:53:00.740
They're obsessed with identity, but the identity is exactly what they lack, ironically.
00:53:05.140
They're not grounded in anything. They're rootless and hollow. They're addicted to
00:53:08.500
acknowledgement. They're desperate for affirmation. I remember there was this weird and pretty bad
00:53:14.060
horror movie that I watched several years ago. I forget what it was called, but there was a sudden
00:53:18.300
darkness that falls over the country and people disappear into the darkness and essentially like
00:53:24.480
dematerialize. Like I said, it's weird. But as each character disappears into the abyss,
00:53:29.260
they start muttering, I exist, I exist over and over again, as they try helplessly to reassert their
00:53:35.220
own existence. I think something similar is happening in our culture today. People feel as
00:53:40.420
though they're constantly on the verge of non-existence and they depend on everybody else,
00:53:44.780
on every passing stranger on the street to affirm them, to like hold them in existence.
00:53:50.800
They seem to fear that if they're not acknowledged in exactly the way they want to be acknowledged,
00:53:54.840
they'll disappear. In fact, you often hear people like this complain about being erased.
00:54:01.620
And I think that fear is perhaps more literal than we realize. People who spent hundreds of
00:54:06.480
thousands of dollars and years of their lives just to earn a title that they can put on their names and
00:54:10.400
you know, they are often going to be the most desperate for this kind of affirmation. That's
00:54:14.940
precisely why they went through all of that effort to begin with. And I say all of this as a
00:54:20.580
scholar of women's studies myself, even though I'm a best-selling women's studies author of the book,
00:54:25.860
What is a Woman? Available for pre-order at whatisawoman.com, which is based on the film,
00:54:29.420
which will soon be released. You can also watch the teaser at whatisawoman.com. In spite of all that,
00:54:34.580
and of the fact that my status as the nation's preeminent women's studies expert and LGBT children's
00:54:39.440
author essentially makes me a doctor as well, I still do not insist on having those achievements
00:54:44.100
recognized all the time. I just want them to recognize most of the time. Well, all the time,
00:54:49.740
I guess, but I'm the exception. As for the rest of these fake doctors desperate for attention
00:54:54.840
and for affirmation, they are all today, of course, canceled. And we'll leave it there for today.
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Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great day. Godspeed.
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