The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 948 - Target Celebrates Pride Month Early With Chest Binders For Girls

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, Target gets a head start on Pride Month by announcing that they'll

00:00:03.940 now be selling chest binders for girls. What are chest binders and how far have we slid down the 0.98

00:00:09.040 slippery slope that now they're on sale at a major big box retailer? We'll discuss that. Also,

00:00:13.580 the pro-abortion pitchfork mob makes its way to Justice Alito's house in Virginia in spite of the

00:00:17.400 fact that protesting outside of his home violates both federal law and Virginia state law. Plus,

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00:01:51.740 We must gird ourselves for what is about to commence in a few weeks' time. June is sure to

00:01:57.320 be the most relentless, tedious, over-the-top pride month that we've been subjected to since 1.00

00:02:02.200 the LGBT club decided that one day was not enough time to celebrate itself and decided to expand to

00:02:06.880 an entire month. You know, there was a time when these kinds of events may have gone unnoticed to

00:02:11.800 the average person, but we live now in a branded world where the brands have branded themselves onto

00:02:16.500 every aspect of our lives. And the brands now compete with one another to see who can fawn over

00:02:22.180 the LGBT club the most, constantly trying to upstage each other with one pathetic, ingratiating display 1.00

00:02:28.400 after another. And because we cannot escape the brands, we cannot escape the tornado of ass-kissing. 1.00

00:02:34.140 We can expect the tornado this year to achieve a full category five rating. Truly, we're going to 0.90

00:02:38.780 see some cat five ass-kissing as the brands ramp up the LGBT propaganda in response to the anti-groomer 0.98

00:02:45.140 laws in Florida and the anti-child mutilation laws in other states. So this is going to be a lot of 0.97

00:02:51.100 overcompensation that happens. There's no telling how far it will go. Is Kellogg's going to turn

00:02:56.480 Toucan Sam into a drag queen? Will Mr. Clean come out as Miss Clean? Will some cookware company do an

00:03:01.640 ill-conceived pansexual tie-in? Will the CEO of Disney sacrifice a live goat in front of a golden

00:03:08.000 statue of Harvey Milk? Whatever happens, we know we're going to see some virtue signaling that defies

00:03:13.720 the imagination. In fact, we already are. The website Bustle reports, quite approvingly, I should

00:03:19.520 add, that in the lead-up to Pride Month, Target has announced, quote, fashion collabs with two queer-owned

00:03:26.040 brands. And the article explains, Target's latest collaborations hit the mark. The superstore,

00:03:32.420 known for their quick-to-sell fashion collabs, has released two new collaborations ahead of Pride

00:03:37.360 Month, launching accessible, gender-affirming products for everybody and everybody. There you

00:03:44.420 go. What makes these collaborations different from every other rainbow-splattered product at your local

00:03:49.400 dollar store? Well, Target partnered with Tomboy X and Humankind, two queer-owned, female-founded 1.00

00:03:55.120 brands to create these much-needed lines. The Tomboy X collab features undergarments like compression

00:04:01.120 tops, a comfortable alternative to chest binders, as well as packing underwear, bras, and boy shorts in

00:04:07.840 size small through 4X. Humankind's line, on the other hand, includes various swimsuit styles such as

00:04:13.980 swim trunks, tops, and unisuits. As binders and gender-affirming swimsuits are notoriously difficult

00:04:20.740 to find, particularly in extended sizes. This accessible drop will make shopping for everyday

00:04:25.780 garments much easier. Now, packing underwear, as the term may suggest, is underwear that gender 0.96

00:04:33.940 dysphoric girls wear to make it look like they have a penis. It's perverse and bizarre enough for a major 1.00

00:04:39.540 big-box retailer to stock something like that on their shelves. But the compression tops, which aren't so

00:04:46.300 much alternatives to chest binders, but rather just a less grotesque name for chest binders, are even

00:04:52.540 worse. A chest binder, again, as the term suggests, is something that a girl with mental health issues 1.00

00:04:58.360 wears around her chest to bind, constrict, and flatten her breasts in an attempt to appear more 1.00

00:05:04.340 masculine. Now, Target's website confirms that these items are indeed for sale, describing the Pride

00:05:10.940 Tomboy X compression top this way. They say, the Pride compression top from Tomboy X is designed to

00:05:17.140 keep you comfortable while letting you be your best self. This black-hue top has a plain silhouette

00:05:23.420 and pullover style that stays put throughout your day, plus soft, stretchy fabric and no cups for a

00:05:29.480 smooth look and feel. With its athletic look, this compression top is great for both everyday wear

00:05:34.160 and more active days. Yes, be your best self, the best version of yourself, by attempting to hide

00:05:41.960 some of your defining physical features by constricting them dangerously and painfully

00:05:46.860 with an elastic band. I mean, that's how you be your best self. That's how you show pride, apparently.

00:05:56.040 The most terrifying thing here is that the product is not available to buy right now online,

00:06:01.100 which appears to mean that it's sold out. Certainly does not mean that Target decided

00:06:05.160 against putting it for sale. In fact, these can be found in the physical stores. As this tweet from

00:06:10.620 an elated trans activist shows, someone who identifies themselves as MixMX Kelsey Danger says, 0.96

00:06:18.300 holy crap, Target is selling binders. You can buy binders in an effing store now. That's incredible. 0.94

00:06:24.920 Like every store does pride merch, but that's actually making a difference for queer youth.

00:06:30.000 I love it. I bet you do. You love the idea of women destroying their bodies. 1.00

00:06:38.140 Now, sane, morally decent people, on the other hand, look at this about the same as we would look 0.76

00:06:42.760 at Walgreens selling laxatives marketed specifically to anorexic people. A few years ago, there was a

00:06:49.960 woman who self-identified as disabled. She was a member of the trans-abled community, which is a thing.

00:06:57.240 And she blinded herself with a drain cleaner in order to fulfill her dream of being blind. In fact,

00:07:04.120 if I actually clarify that, she went, I believe, if I remember correctly, she went to her psychiatrist

00:07:09.280 and her psychiatrist prescribed this to her, recommended it, and actually helped her blind

00:07:14.980 herself with a drain cleaner. Now, perhaps if the trans-abled community grows a little bit larger, 1.00

00:07:20.820 they'll start selling Drano specifically for that purpose. Wouldn't that just be wonderful and

00:07:26.700 inclusive? Here, buy this Drano. You can unclog your drains and also blind yourself to be the best

00:07:33.480 version of yourself. That's not as far-fetched as it may seem. After all, five years ago, chest binding

00:07:41.180 was viewed as something no different than foot binding. Foot binding is, of course, the Chinese custom

00:07:47.060 of binding and breaking a girl's feet in order to change the shape and size of their feet.

00:07:53.960 Maybe we'll get to the point where Foot Locker sells feet binders. Who knows? But as for chest

00:07:58.480 binding, it went from something macabre and grotesque, and it still is, but it used to be widely viewed

00:08:04.340 that way, if people knew about it at all, which in fact, I guess five years ago, most people never

00:08:09.560 even heard of it. Didn't know that that was a thing at all. But now it's being promoted and sold by

00:08:16.860 Target. Not just Target, but the medical industry as well. The American Academy of Pediatrics has a paper

00:08:24.280 on their website claiming that chest binding is, quote, often critical for mental health. And yet, in the

00:08:30.840 very same sentence, they admit that, quote, negative physical side effects ranging from chronic pain to rib

00:08:37.060 fractures are common. Now, for more on those side effects, we go to an article from the Cleveland Clinic,

00:08:44.560 which also promotes and celebrates chest binding, but then lists some hazards that come with it. And those

00:08:50.940 hazards include, here's a partial list. Acne, bacterial infections, fungal infections, itching, scarring, swelling,

00:08:58.240 tenderness, loss of muscle mass, postural changes, rib fractures, shoulder popping, dizziness, headaches,

00:09:03.900 lightheadedness, numbness.

00:09:05.300 Oh, and we should mention that it often crushes the breast to such an extent that there's permanent 1.00

00:09:10.920 deformation of the organ, can make it difficult or impossible to breastfeed later in life.

00:09:17.280 This is what Target is selling. As I saw somebody put it on Twitter, to be more specific, they are

00:09:23.700 selling conversion therapy for girls. Just think of the name, Tomboy X. Yet, tomboys are precisely what 0.99

00:09:34.600 they're erasing from existence. A girl with slightly more masculine characteristics and interests used 0.99

00:09:41.200 to simply be a girl with slightly more masculine characteristics and interests. Those kinds of girls

00:09:46.800 existed in the world once. And we would call this kind of girl a tomboy, and very often it was a phase 0.66

00:09:54.000 that she would outgrow. Sometimes it was a personality trait that kind of cemented and endured for life,

00:10:00.380 which is fine, or it was fine. Now, girls with these kinds of tendencies are told that they're not 1.00

00:10:06.040 really girls at all. There used to be variety within each sex. Now, every type outside the mean, 0.95

00:10:15.200 everything that is not average is subsumed by the LGBT cult, consumed by it, branded by it. 1.00

00:10:23.800 Forget self-expression. Girls now are encouraged to literally constrict themselves, stuff themselves 0.99

00:10:30.400 into a vice to try to change their shape, to hide and destroy parts of themselves.

00:10:37.320 You know, the message to girls used to be, you're beautiful just the way you are. 0.98

00:10:45.060 And that was the relentless messaging. And sometimes it went too far overboard.

00:10:52.900 But now it's, here, flatten your breasts with this elastic band until you have a severe bacterial 1.00

00:10:57.460 infection and your ribs are broken. Do this so that you can look like a boy. 0.72

00:11:01.760 This is what passes for self-empowerment these days. It's also what passes for LGBT pride. 0.63

00:11:12.580 Let me hide and destroy myself out of pride. That's LGBT pride, which perhaps should tell us 1.00

00:11:24.220 something about LGBT pride. Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:12:43.040 you spend today. Okay, before we get started here, I got to show you this because yet again,

00:12:49.980 getting shamed by my wife, we went out to eat, um, on, on Sunday, actually it was for Mother's Day

00:12:57.160 and my wife, she always accuses me. I don't know why, but she accuses me at restaurants of trying to 0.99

00:13:03.020 embarrass her. She says that that's like something I always do. And so I decided to, you see the picture

00:13:08.220 that she posted. So I decided to wear my sunglasses inside, um, and I'll wear my napkin as a bib

00:13:14.980 and then eat sushi with a fork. So this was what, because she accuses me of trying to embarrass, 0.98

00:13:21.540 and I'm, I'm a grown man, by the way, I'm a 35 year old man. And that's how I decided to comport

00:13:27.660 myself on Mother's Day, no less. And the thing is, um, I didn't know this, but the whole time,

00:13:32.460 the, uh, the, the guy that was busting our table, he was a fan and he recognized, but he didn't say

00:13:38.000 anything until the very end. And he witnessed all of this and, but I have to assume he's a fan of the

00:13:43.620 show. He's probably not surprised by the way, other big news here. We're about to have a new

00:13:47.840 press secretary. I thought we already did. I thought that, uh, I guess I'm not, I'm not up to

00:13:51.460 date on this, but I thought that Jen Psaki was shuffling away and had introduced the new one, 1.00

00:13:57.080 but she's still apparently gets, I don't know what the deal is, but eventually we're going to have a 0.97

00:14:00.900 new press secretary and she's a black and gay. And this is a huge deal we're told. So the Cato 0.86

00:14:08.800 Institute tweeted this. We have the tweet from the Cato Institute talking about, um,

00:14:14.720 there we go. So Cato Institute says for roughly the first two centuries of American independence,

00:14:20.720 no black or gay person and no woman could aspire to be the white house press secretary.

00:14:26.380 Now I love this for so many reasons. The first one is that the position of white house press 0.85

00:14:32.420 secretary didn't exist until like the 1930s. So we have not had a white house press secretary.

00:14:38.800 I mean, maybe not surprisingly, there wasn't a white house press secretary in like 1805.

00:14:44.960 Um, so that's the first problem. Second problem is who the hell aspires to be the white house

00:14:52.240 press secretary that I that's like, that should be a prison sentence. I think that's that here's my

00:14:59.880 idea off the cuff, off the top of my head here, but now we're brainstorming. That should be a prison

00:15:04.620 sentence that you give to people where your job is to stand up there and lie for the president

00:15:10.560 every day. And everybody knows that you're lying. So every day you just set your integrity and your

00:15:16.260 credibility on fire in front of the entire world. This there's no, I mean, there are many ways,

00:15:22.980 by the way, if you're willing to do that, to set your integrity and credibility on fire in front of

00:15:28.380 the whole world. Um, there are, there are lots of jobs where people do that, but you could get paid a

00:15:32.360 lot more to be white house press secretary. Who, who aspires to that? I would now, okay. I'll admit

00:15:42.280 I, I would like to be white house press secretary for just so I could get fired on the first day.

00:15:48.020 I wouldn't make it past the first day. So I would take one day in that position.

00:15:54.740 But I don't know if my kids told me, if I was talking to my daughter and as we've had this

00:16:01.580 conversation many times and, and what the, you know, it always kind of changes when you ask them,

00:16:05.860 what do you want to be when you grow up? And if I were to go home tonight and ask my daughter that,

00:16:11.420 and she said, I want to be the white house press secretary. I would put her in counseling.

00:16:15.400 I would get therapy for her. That's as a, as a parent, it's one of your worst nightmares

00:16:24.220 is that your child comes home and says, Oh, I got a job as the white house press secretary.

00:16:29.680 Oh, not you, dear child, not you. Um, and the other interesting thing about this, uh, this person

00:16:36.480 here, the fact that they're, that she's black and lesbian is not interesting at all and doesn't 1.00

00:16:41.900 matter. But, um, the interesting thing is that, uh, she is on the record saying that the 2016

00:16:49.580 election was stolen that, and using those words exactly that the Georgia's Georgia governor's race

00:16:56.180 was stolen and that Fox news is racist. And this was very recently. It was a couple of years ago

00:17:00.920 leading up to, uh, early on in coronavirus. And she said that Fox news is racist. Now,

00:17:06.020 now she's going to be press secretary where she's supposed to pretend at least to be non-biased, 1.00

00:17:12.560 non-partisan, you know, treating everybody equally in the press room. And yet here's what she thinks

00:17:18.100 of Fox news. Listen, Fox news was racist before coronavirus. They are racist during the coronavirus.

00:17:25.200 Fox news will be racist after the coronavirus. So there is nothing new here. I think the differences

00:17:30.220 is they have been, they are all in on being state TV for Donald Trump. And so they will continue to

00:17:37.280 give them misinformation. The danger is, so yes, you have Asian Americans right now whose lives are 0.78

00:17:43.300 seriously in danger and you have their own viewers who can now, the ones who are 60, 60 and older,

00:17:49.640 who are watching. This is a health crisis that we're in. This is a global pandemic as the WHO has said,

00:17:55.960 and they're putting their lives in danger. And so that is where we are right now is the,

00:18:00.980 the danger that Fox news is now what they're putting out there is going to hurt people and not

00:18:07.260 help them. Oh yeah. Well, she'll be fair and objective, obviously. It's saying ahead of time,

00:18:13.700 the Fox news is racist and dangerous and hurting people. But, uh, you know, I said that this is an

00:18:18.760 interesting fact about it actually is not, this also is not interesting because this is, this is what

00:18:22.800 we're used to, um, in general from the white house, but especially from this administration

00:18:28.340 in particular, that they're all just activists, everybody. And this is what Democrats do. Um,

00:18:37.520 everyone, they put anyone in any position, doesn't matter what the position is. They are all activists

00:18:42.940 and she is a left-wing activist. It's just activists all the way down. And that's one of the reasons why 1.00

00:18:50.900 this administration has been a total unmitigated historic disaster. I mean, it has been the worst

00:18:58.260 first year and a half, two years of a presidential administration in American history. Nothing even

00:19:03.220 comes close. And yet another example here, this is a story that's gotten more attention lately,

00:19:08.640 but still less than it deserves. It says desperate mothers across the U S have been forced to buy

00:19:13.240 formula. They know will make their baby sick as the country grapples with a shortage that has left

00:19:17.540 shelves bare and has caused prices to skyrocket to $120 a can, $120 a can. I mean, think about getting

00:19:26.280 into your car to drive to the grocery store. You got to put gas in your car for 450 a gallon or whatever

00:19:31.480 it is now. And, um, and then you're, you're driving to the store and you're paying $120 a can for baby

00:19:37.180 formula. This is simply not a sustainable way to live for most Americans. Uh, winter

00:19:47.500 Balthrop of Gallatin, Tennessee says she broke down inside her car after driving to six stores and

00:19:52.000 calling others as far as three hours away, only to receive the same answer, which is that the

00:19:55.620 specific formula, uh, that her baby needs and tolerates was out of stock when it dawned on her

00:20:01.920 that she would have to feed her baby girl, Blakely, um, baby girl, Blakely, non-hypoallergenic

00:20:09.020 formula. She knew she would, uh, make her, make her stomach sick. The new mother burst into tears. 1.00

00:20:13.380 And then they give many other examples of this major retailers, such as CVS, Walgreens and

00:20:17.260 Target have a limited in-store and online purchased up to three per buyer. As parents have raised

00:20:22.380 concerns that many are hoarding the already hard to find formulas. This is something I've noticed

00:20:27.300 myself. I was at Walgreens yesterday, in fact, and they had the formula, um, behind the counter

00:20:33.240 behind glass. And I watched somebody come in and they got their ration of formula. So we, we are now

00:20:39.940 in a, in a, a position of baby formula rationing. And, um, now we're not in the market for baby

00:20:48.600 formula, but this is something. And, you know, when I go to buy diapers, you see it as well.

00:20:52.860 The shelves are almost entirely bare. And this is a, a real crisis. So much so that I'm not exactly

00:21:03.180 sure what you do as a parent. Now I know that, um, you know, there's some people that have commented

00:21:07.740 and said, well, there's a, there's a cheap, there's a free alternative to formula, which

00:21:12.520 is breastfeeding. And obviously yes, but some mothers can't breastfeed, you know, for various 1.00

00:21:19.000 different physical, medical reasons, don't have enough supply. Uh, there could also be, you know,

00:21:25.140 there are plenty of mothers that actually have to work, especially given the state of the economy 1.00

00:21:31.180 right now. And so what do you do in that situation when you can't find formula? You know,

00:21:36.240 we were in that position with, um, even though my wife's a stay-at-home mom with our twins,

00:21:40.320 uh, just because of supply issues and, and, and, and, uh, other, other things we had to

00:21:46.820 supplement. We had no choice. We had to supplement the breastfeeding with, uh, with baby formula.

00:21:52.600 And especially with twins, we bought a lot of it. And I know from experience that babies have,

00:21:58.560 you know, very specific needs when it comes to that. And you're going to find a certain kind

00:22:02.680 of formula that they need. If you try to give them something else, they're going to have gas,

00:22:06.400 they're going to get colicky, they're going to be up all night screaming.

00:22:11.480 And this is what, um, people are facing. Just, just one, this is, this is one of the

00:22:17.360 major crises gripping the country. And it is a crisis. And I think it should tell you something

00:22:24.100 that although it's a crisis, when this is food for infants that we're running out of,

00:22:33.000 um, although it is a crisis, there's not a whole lot being said about it, especially

00:22:39.400 from the corporate media. I mean, they're, they're paying lip service to it because they have to,

00:22:47.100 they went a while without reporting it at all. And now they're reporting it because they have no choice,

00:22:50.560 but they're mostly trying to ignore it. And part of the reason for ignoring it, obviously,

00:22:55.560 is that it makes Biden look really bad. It's just yet another major problem that we're facing since

00:22:59.480 Biden, uh, came into office and, um, they don't want to do that because he's their guy.

00:23:04.980 But I think it's also just that for a lot of people on the left, especially, uh, especially if

00:23:12.040 they're childless, they just don't feel any kind of, they don't really feel anything about a baby

00:23:19.160 formula shortage. In fact, for a lot of them, they're more outraged about college educated

00:23:26.040 adults having to pay their loans, their student loans than about babies not having enough food to

00:23:32.720 eat. Have we heard anything from the squad about the baby formula problem? Because we've heard a whole

00:23:41.120 lot about the poor, you know, the poor 30 year old college graduates with graduate degrees who now

00:23:48.140 have to pay their student loans back. And what a crisis that is. What about infant children that

00:23:54.840 can't, can't eat because they don't have enough food? All right, let's move to this. Speaking of

00:24:02.100 protecting children, protesters showed up at, uh, Justice Alito's house yesterday. So they've already

00:24:07.800 been to Justice Kavanaugh's house. Uh, they went to Roberts's house, even though he's on their side

00:24:13.120 and they went there. Um, and here we have some of the footage of them just marching down the street.

00:24:19.180 They somehow managed to find his house. And we know they found Kavanaugh's house because his own

00:24:29.060 neighbor alerted the protesters and the activists to the fact that, you know, I live next door to him.

00:24:35.040 So did something similar happen here? I don't know. I think they're shouting, they want justice now

00:24:47.740 and, uh, justice in the form of killing babies. That's the kind of justice they want. 0.97

00:24:52.680 Just so you know, that footage you see there, that is, um, illegal on the federal level and on the state

00:25:00.960 level because that's in Virginia. Now it's, it is a, it is a federal crime to try to intimidate and

00:25:09.300 harass Supreme court justices to try to change the outcome of a decision. That's a federal crime.

00:25:16.300 It's also against the law in the state of Virginia. So put on a protest, have a display like that in

00:25:22.820 the middle of a residential neighborhood. They actually have a law against it.

00:25:26.660 And yet they were allowed to do it.

00:25:32.680 And some of the, the, the rationale, and that this is in spite of the fact that Virginia is,

00:25:36.620 you know, famously now run by Republicans and they allowed this to happen. And that's in spite of

00:25:41.880 the fact that, uh, in this, some of the, the justification I've heard for that is that, well,

00:25:46.620 the, the law that's on the books that forbids you from having a demonstration like that in a

00:25:51.780 residential neighborhood, uh, that would never hold up in court anyway. And so that,

00:25:55.560 whether it would or not, it's the law on the books right now, which means that you can arrest them

00:26:02.540 or at the very least have the police show up and tell them to leave because that's the law on the

00:26:08.100 books. Now, if you want to challenge the law and you can go ahead and do that, but as it stands right

00:26:12.660 now, that's the law. And if those laws are not enforced, we know they're not going to be enforced

00:26:20.520 on the federal level. The DOJ is just sitting back and allowing this to happen because they're

00:26:26.220 happy about it. It's not just that they're allowing it. They're enthusiastic about it.

00:26:34.780 So if Republicans that are running the states where these things are happening and the localities

00:26:39.440 where these are happening, if they don't step up and stop it, then it's, it only gets worse from

00:26:45.180 here. I mean, we learned, we learned that, and this is a lesson that we should never have had to learn

00:26:50.680 the hard way. But when you sit back and you allow the leftist militants to do what they want, that

00:26:57.140 only emboldens them. You know, they're never going to reach a point where they say, okay, we've gone

00:27:03.360 far enough. This is, this is all we really wanted to do. And then they turn around and go home. Hey guys,

00:27:08.180 we've made our point. Let's go home. That never happens. They keep pushing and they keep pressing,

00:27:16.160 feeling more and more emboldened every step of the way as they're allowed to do whatever they want.

00:27:22.660 And then there was one interesting clip though, from one of the protesters at this demonstration.

00:27:30.820 And I'm going to play this. Now she's explaining why she is pro-abortion. And she has a, the reason that

00:27:36.380 she gives is deeply depressing and dark, but also, but also one of the more honest things that you're

00:27:42.900 ever going to hear from a pro-abortion protester. Listen to this. It's my body is my choice. My,

00:27:49.880 as I said before, my mother didn't have a choice. So I'm here, but I had 57 years of misery. If she

00:27:56.060 had a choice, she would have made different decisions and I might not have been here. Nobody

00:27:59.240 would have been the wiser. Give her her choice. But rather than she having a choice, a choice was made

00:28:05.620 for her because she didn't have it. And she brought teachers into the world that she didn't want. 0.99

00:28:10.420 What do you want people to know? What do they have to know about abortion? What's the number

00:28:13.440 one message? My body, my choice. That's the number one message. My body, my choice. I'm not a second

00:28:19.580 class citizen. So she is saying quite explicitly that she wishes she was aborted and that her mother

00:28:26.940 was forced to have her and didn't want to have her. And now she's been born and she's had 57 years of

00:28:32.200 misery and nobody would have been, they would have been none the wiser as she puts it, if she was 0.83

00:28:36.560 just aborted and everything would have been fine. Like she, it's not just, I mean, think about this

00:28:42.280 for a second. It's not just that this woman is saying that she wishes she was dead. Although she does 0.99

00:28:48.340 wish that apparently. It's like, she wishes that she never existed. Though of course, again, with an

00:28:56.980 abortion, it's too late for that because the baby already exists. But she wants to erase the last, 0.96

00:29:02.720 the whole, her entire life. Which is extremely depressing, of course. But it only goes to show

00:29:12.420 that these people are, in a very literal sense, anti-life. They really do hate human life.

00:29:19.020 And that should be no surprise. Because to be, you know, in favor of killing babies at all, 0.99

00:29:27.180 that's the perspective you have to have. And to get this upset at the notion that more babies are 0.98

00:29:35.840 going to be allowed to be born, and sadly, not even that many more babies, because as we've gone

00:29:41.220 over, you know, this is, 80 some percent of the abortions in America are still going to happen. 0.92

00:29:49.120 So if there's any increase in the birth rate at all, it makes these people very upset and outraged.

00:29:54.780 Because they are anti-life. Although what she just said there, at least, it is

00:30:00.380 the most honest, and in a way, the most coherent pro-abortion argument you're going to hear.

00:30:08.640 Which is that life is a terrible thing, it's an unending parade of misery,

00:30:14.520 and it's better to simply avoid the whole thing, and we're doing babies a favor by 0.94

00:30:19.860 killing them in the womb, so they never have to endure, you know, living outside of it. 0.99

00:30:26.700 That's a horrible argument. I mean, it's nihilistic and terrible and dark. 1.00

00:30:32.340 Like, but it's honest, number one, which is more than we could say for most of what we hear from

00:30:39.940 pro-aborts. And it's basically coherent. It's wrong, but it's basically coherent. Like,

00:30:45.260 I understand the logic of what you're saying. Terrible, but at least, it's not self-contradictory,

00:30:53.060 at least, for the most part. And that it really is. When it comes down to it, at its basest level,

00:31:00.980 what you just heard there, that is the argument for abortion. That life is an awful thing, 0.98

00:31:06.460 and it's best to be avoided. There's nothing inherently good about life.

00:31:12.600 And certainly, there is nothing intrinsic, you know, there's no intrinsic worth or dignity

00:31:19.760 in each individual human life.

00:31:24.420 All right, let's see what else we got here.

00:31:28.660 Let's see. So, Rand Paul shared this. This is Lauren Garrett with the National Academy of Medicine

00:31:35.960 talking about the real reason for masking. And this, what you're about to hear, this is from

00:31:41.780 2018. This is before COVID, back when these public health experts were speaking more honestly about

00:31:48.860 things like masking. Because, just so you know, masking was not invented at the time of COVID.

00:31:55.140 Like, medical masks existed before then. And we knew a whole lot about them, and plenty of studies

00:32:02.060 had been done before about the efficacy of masking, about the appropriate times for masking,

00:32:07.460 when it works, when it doesn't. Just reams and reams of research on that.

00:32:14.040 Which is why the excuse that you hear that, well, we didn't know a lot about masking early on,

00:32:18.380 and so we said certain things, and it turns out those things weren't correct. But it's only because

00:32:22.700 we learned, oh, you didn't learn anything. We did not learn a single thing about masking during COVID.

00:32:26.880 Because we knew all that stuff already. Case in point, here's, again, Lauren Garrett, 0.90

00:32:34.780 National Academy of Medicine. Here's what she said in 2018. Listen.

00:32:37.960 There's only a couple of countries that have ever really done large-scale studies to try and figure

00:32:43.460 out what might work. Japan, it may not surprise you, is one of them. And they, in one of their large 1.00

00:32:50.580 studies, they basically showed that the masks, it seemed like the major efficacy of a mask is that

00:32:57.880 it causes alarm in the other person. And so you stay away from each other. And that's what I think

00:33:03.780 happened with SARS. When I was in the SARS epidemic, I saw everywhere, all over Asia, people started

00:33:09.240 wearing these masks. And it is alarming when you walk down the street and everybody coming towards you

00:33:14.180 has a mask on. You definitely do social distancing. You definitely, it's just a gut thing. But did the

00:33:21.460 mask really help them? Did the mask keep the virus out? Almost certainly not. If they, if the virus was

00:33:29.080 in there, around their face, the mask would not have made the difference. The mask almost certainly

00:33:35.800 didn't help, made no difference. That's not me talking. That's Lauren Garrett, the National Academy

00:33:41.560 of Medicine. That's what she's saying. But even to this day, if I were to say that, I'd get kicked

00:33:48.080 off YouTube. I'm not even sure, like, are we even allowed to play that according to YouTube's rules?

00:33:52.340 I guess we'll find out. But that's what she said. And according to her, before COVID, the primary

00:33:59.900 function of a mask was psychological. It was psychological conditioning and manipulation.

00:34:05.120 observation. And there were certainly many of us who made that observation from the very beginning.

00:34:16.000 But this is yet another thing that you weren't allowed to say at the time. People are saying now,

00:34:19.920 although in that case, she said it before. For an example of someone saying something now,

00:34:23.940 all of a sudden, we go to Bill Gates. So similar kind of theme here. But here he is. This is not back

00:34:29.540 in 2018. This is Bill Gates a few days ago. And here's what he says now. It wasn't until early

00:34:37.000 February when I was in a meeting that experts at the foundation said, there's no way. There's been

00:34:44.380 too much travel without diagnosis for us to contain this. And then at that point, we didn't really

00:34:53.140 understand the fatality rate. We didn't understand that it's a fairly low fatality rate and that it's

00:35:00.540 a disease mainly of the elderly, kind of like flu is, although a bit different than that. So that was

00:35:06.440 pretty scary period where the world didn't go on alert, including the United States, nearly as fast

00:35:15.020 as it needed to. We didn't understand that. We didn't understand early on that it affects mainly

00:35:21.340 the elderly. There's a relatively low fatality rate. We didn't, because I understood that.

00:35:28.540 I do think we should keep something in mind, even though I was wearing a hazmat suit to start the

00:35:32.420 show. A couple of things. First of all, most of the deaths are older people who are already in poor

00:35:39.300 health with compromised immune systems. So, you know, in other words, these are not young,

00:35:48.900 healthy people who are dying of this illness. The people that's especially at risk of dying from

00:35:54.700 coronavirus are the same people who are at risk from dying from the flu and many other illnesses.

00:36:00.480 I understood that nearly from the beginning. So what am I, a genius? I'm not the only one.

00:36:04.520 There's like a whole lot of us who were saying that. We weren't allowed to say it though.

00:36:07.360 But now Bill Gates is saying it. This is why, what I want to hear from Republicans heading into,

00:36:18.160 well, really in the midterms and especially in 2024,

00:36:23.100 what I want to hear them promising is that they're going to put people on trial.

00:36:27.660 You know, the people who pushed the lockdowns

00:36:32.620 on a faulty premise, it's not enough for them to just say, well, our bad. Well, we didn't know.

00:36:45.640 We, as the experts, didn't know things that people on Twitter knew within like two days.

00:36:51.260 No, that's not enough. This is not a mea culpa kind of thing. And it's not even a mea culpa because

00:36:58.020 none of these people are even apologizing. I just want to move on like it didn't happen.

00:37:05.260 Economic devastation, kids whose lives were destroyed for years, sometimes, I mean,

00:37:11.940 kids who killed themselves, everything else. I mean, we know the whole litany.

00:37:17.020 And they want to simply move on from it like it didn't happen. We cannot allow that. And what I

00:37:23.180 want to hear from Republicans is that we're going to find the people responsible for pushing this,

00:37:26.900 and we're going to put them on trial and hold them responsible.

00:37:32.060 All right, let's, one other quick clip here. Let's check this. This is at the scene at the

00:37:37.240 European Parliament. Let's put this up on the screen. I don't know what's going on here exactly, but

00:37:42.740 we've got...

00:37:47.020 All right. This is interpretive dancing happening in the aisles from the European

00:37:53.540 Parliament.

00:37:56.680 Oh my gosh.

00:38:01.320 I don't know exactly what the explanation is here. I don't think we need the explanation.

00:38:06.480 Like there can't be an explanation that makes this any less embarrassing.

00:38:08.980 By the way, interpretive dancing, that's, that to dancing is like the, it's like, that's like slam

00:38:19.340 poetry. Interpretive dancing is to dancing what slam poetry is to poetry, which is that it's not

00:38:23.620 really dancing at all. I mean, that's, if I could do it, that's the rule for dancing, is that if I can do

00:38:30.700 it, it is, you are not dancing. And I could do, I wouldn't do that unless I really needed to express

00:38:37.320 myself. There have been a few times I've been arguing with my wife and I couldn't get my

00:38:40.840 words out. And so I broke out into an interpretive dance to try to express how I was feeling deeply

00:38:46.100 inside. But for the most part, I won't do that. But if I can, then it's not dancing.

00:38:51.500 If you're doing poetry that I could write, it's not poetry.

00:38:53.840 Who's, who's the girl that showed up at the inauguration? Amanda Gorman, right? Like that

00:38:59.680 kind of poetry. I could do that. That's not poetry. That's what they're doing over at the

00:39:05.300 European parliament. Let's go now to the comment section.

00:39:08.680 Do you know their name? They're the sweet baby gang.

00:39:14.160 Tom Young John says, whoever picked Matt to be part of the DW team deserves a raise.

00:39:24.100 Well, nobody really picked me. I just wandered in one day. Just wandered. I was in my, you know,

00:39:28.940 I was a homeless guy in my car and I was hanging out in the parking lot, ranting to nobody, talking

00:39:34.680 to myself. And then Ben Shapiro walked it down one day and said, well, if you're going to be

00:39:38.300 down here, we'll just give you a, we'll give you a cell phone. Just ranted to the camera. And

00:39:42.680 that's, that's the origin story. That's where it all began. But this apparently in the comment

00:39:48.120 section led to a little bit of a disagreement. And then Lisa Jay disagrees, does not think the

00:39:53.960 person who hired me should get a raise. In fact, maybe they should be fired. She says, couldn't

00:39:57.800 disagree more. He's become one of the main reasons I no longer subscribe and wouldn't tell anyone I

00:40:02.120 watch DW. I'm a conservative and think the other three main hosts are light years beyond Walsh and

00:40:06.740 infinitely more worthwhile. Matt Walsh had some strong points and much potential, but has chosen to

00:40:11.780 squander much of it in ugly, mean-spirited, childish humor that's sometimes even unethical 0.92

00:40:17.960 and often hypocritical. He has become desperate with his sweet baby stuff and crazy ego and needs 0.98

00:40:24.140 to relentlessly promote some dumb image he's created and become fixated on to the extent that it often 0.96

00:40:29.400 makes him say and push really unpleasant and ugly stuff to serve that image. That's the only 0.92

00:40:35.020 conclusion I can draw as to why someone who is thoughtful and interesting and often funny is now

00:40:38.420 often peppered with behavior that I would be so ashamed of. He and the fraudster Owens are the

00:40:44.420 weak links in DW, in my opinion. Well, me and Candace are the weak links. I mean, we were the ones who

00:40:51.700 spent like three days arguing over a bottle of water, so you might have a point. But I'm not going to

00:40:57.200 respond to each point, each part of this, especially because there are no examples provided of when I've

00:41:01.660 done any of these things that I stand accused of. But I will say, as far as the mean-spirited,

00:41:07.860 childish, unethical, ugly accusation, well, childish, I'll give you that too, because I did just show you

00:41:14.440 the picture of me in the sunglasses with the bib, you know, eating sushi with a fork, so I can't deny

00:41:18.780 that either. But the others I won't agree with. I may be mean sometimes, but here's the distinction.

00:41:23.980 I don't think this is splitting hairs. Mean but not mean-spirited. And I think there is a difference,

00:41:30.220 because mean-spirited is when you just want to hurt people. That's your only motivation. A mean-spirited

00:41:36.640 person, the only thing he wants to do is simply hurt people, and you take pleasure in hurting

00:41:41.340 people. That's not what I'm about. Now, I can act and speak in a way that's aggressive and even mean

00:41:48.500 sometimes, but that's because I'm responding to, right, and trying to fight back against things that

00:41:54.560 are evil. And you don't, I don't think you fight evil because you want to hurt people. Quite the

00:42:00.240 opposite. And the problem on the right often, especially in the commentator class, I don't

00:42:06.740 think it's that we're too mean, despite how it's painted, that, oh, there's a bunch of right-wing

00:42:14.680 radicals that are all so mean. I think the problem often is, for many conservatives, people who claim

00:42:19.460 to be conservative anyway, is actually that they don't really care. They don't feel any anger towards

00:42:23.640 the evil happening in our culture. I do. You know, it pisses me off, and I respond in kind.

00:42:29.340 And it can be a little mean sometimes, but not mean-spirited. That's the distinction.

00:42:33.520 Okay. Davey says, Matt, your book, Church of Cowards, got a shout-out by my pastor yesterday in

00:42:39.880 our Baptist church in Silicon Valley in California. It's crazy to think about how much more applicable

00:42:44.860 the book is today. Yeah, I wish, that's one that I wish I could say is now irrelevant and don't

00:42:50.640 bother buying it, but unfortunately, that's not the case. Let's see. Emery says, not trying to be rude,

00:42:57.400 but if you looked at a breakdown of adoptive families, I'd be curious to know the races of

00:43:02.440 adoptive parents. It's actually a really fascinating question and point, because yesterday we heard from

00:43:09.560 the race-hustling feminists about how black kids aren't adopted as often as white kids, and that means, 1.00

00:43:17.340 according to them, that we should just kill the black kids. That's their, well, we should have 1.00

00:43:21.720 abortion because they're not adopted anyway. That's their argument. But rather than blame

00:43:29.740 racism, it is interesting to ask how many black adults are adopting kids themselves. And as far

00:43:36.940 as that goes, there's a study by the Institute of Family Studies from 2017 that gives some idea.

00:43:41.900 It says of the races of adoptive mothers of kindergartners, so it's maybe a small select

00:43:47.680 sample here, but this is what they say, 77% are white, 6% black, 9% Hispanic. Now, of course,

00:43:56.320 white people can and often do adopt non-white children, but the fact is that white people

00:44:01.180 are carrying most of the load here, and they're way overrepresented in comparison to their statistical

00:44:07.340 representation in a broader culture. They're overrepresented as adoptive parents,

00:44:11.320 whereas other races are underrepresented. And when white families do adopt non-white children,

00:44:19.380 the race hustlers will often call that racist too. So it's a definite damned if you do, 0.98

00:44:25.140 damned if you don't situation. If you're a white family looking to adopt a child, 0.98

00:44:31.040 damned if you do, damned if you don't, right? And one solution to that situation might be for greater 0.99

00:44:37.640 adoption participation of other groups. But that's an aspect of this conversation that's

00:44:45.460 like never brought up. It's the first time I've seen anyone bring it up. It's a good point. 1.00

00:44:49.160 And that's in the YouTube comment section. And finally, Carrie says, Matt, I was at a friend's

00:44:53.140 house for dinner last night, and there are two kids were on their phones at the table the whole

00:44:57.760 dinner. Why do parents allow this? Is it just me or is that the rudest thing ever? It's not just you.

00:45:02.640 That's incredibly rude. I can't imagine. I don't understand why parents allow that.

00:45:07.160 I know that you can't, as a parent, you can't control every last thing that your kid does

00:45:11.980 because they are their own person. They have their own mind, and they're going to do things you don't

00:45:15.380 want them to do. And so a lot of times you're playing cleanup and you're punishing and things

00:45:19.620 like that. But this is one thing that you can absolutely control proactively, and lots of parents

00:45:24.740 don't even attempt to. So you see it at restaurants. I've seen it also at people's houses.

00:45:30.060 Kids are sitting there on their phones at dinner. I mean, it blows my mind. Just stand up.

00:45:37.020 Take the phones out of their hands. And the best thing you can do is take the phones out

00:45:42.300 of their hands and throw them in the toilet and destroy them. I was thinking about this 0.90

00:45:49.040 today. I was driving to work, and I was running later than usual. And so I usually see this because

00:45:55.180 usually I'm coming in too early. But I drove by, I don't know, five or six bus stops, and the

00:45:59.840 kids were out at the bus stops waiting for the bus. And at every single bus stop, of course,

00:46:03.800 the kids are just sitting there, like standing like zombies, silently looking down at their

00:46:08.180 phones. And I can remember when I was a kid, the bus stop was, it was its own thing, its

00:46:15.380 own adventure. You know, its own like ecosystem was the bus stop and the bus. And now it's nothing.

00:46:23.020 Kids don't even notice that they're there. They're just looking down at their phones.

00:46:25.200 It's a damn shame. 0.94

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00:47:13.420 our daily cancellation. You know, one of the trends on TikTok for some reason is for people to post

00:47:22.500 videos documenting and explaining their morning routines. And the thing that you quickly notice if

00:47:27.720 you watch a few of these videos is that people on TikTok perhaps unsurprisingly have a lot of free

00:47:31.460 time on their hands. So for their morning routines, they wake up at a leisurely hour, they do 45 minutes

00:47:36.280 of yoga, an hour of meditation. They go into their immaculate remodeled kitchen with top-of-the-line

00:47:41.120 appliances that they could somehow afford despite not having a job. They make some kind of green,

00:47:45.440 healthy smoothie, go for a jog, do some crunches. Then they go consult their personal guru who lives on a

00:47:51.660 goat farm at the top of a mountain, and then they have lunch. And it's all quite difficult to relate

00:47:56.220 to, especially as a parent. I mean, my feelings about yoga are well-known, but even if I was

00:48:00.240 inclined to give yoga a shot, I don't think my kids would stay out of my hair long enough for me to

00:48:04.520 get a good yoga session in or whatever you call it. Though they probably would enjoy coming with me to

00:48:09.280 the mountaintop goat farm, come to think of it. In any case, we know that this is the kind of thing,

00:48:15.020 it's one of the two main genres of content on social media, especially on sites like TikTok and

00:48:20.340 Instagram. This is the, my life is perfect, look how happy and put together I am genre.

00:48:27.660 The second genre is the exact opposite of that. It is in fact meant to be a correction to the first

00:48:34.080 type, though it ends up being just as bad, if not considerably worse. And that is the, my life is

00:48:39.540 terrible, look how miserable I am, please feel sorry for me genre. So one TikTok or a lawyer in Toronto

00:48:45.880 has made her own morning routine video, which fits into this latter category. She's been applauded for

00:48:51.020 this video, which has been viewed many millions of times. Buzzfeed says that it's refreshing and

00:48:55.180 makes them feel seen. Upworthy agrees that it's refreshing and honest. Yahoo celebrates it for

00:49:00.660 being authentic and real. In the video, the 27 year old woman shows us what her routine is like

00:49:05.740 as a lawyer who is depressed as F. Watch. This is my very realistic, non-aesthetic morning routine

00:49:13.660 as a lawyer who is depressed as F. Took me half an hour to get out of bed, so I was very late this

00:49:19.760 morning. I admit I washed my face to wake up, but didn't brush my teeth. Too lazy for a base routine,

00:49:26.340 so I just mix some foundation with moisturizer. My latte also exploded in the microwave, very on brand.

00:49:33.000 I have to contour my face to hide the fact that it's so bloated from drinking last night. I'm really

00:49:39.040 not doing well, please don't judge me. I can't bring myself to give any more f***s than I do, so 0.89

00:49:44.760 putting my hair up millennial style, okay? None of that clean girl, slicked back bun s***. Honestly 0.99

00:49:51.240 though, I don't care how depressed I am, I will not wear my hair in a ponytail like that. I put on some

00:49:55.880 earrings though, good for me. I'm wearing Crocs to work because I'm sad. Please don't ask me why there's

00:50:01.080 Tupperware on the floor. Okay, have a nice day. Well, that was important information clearly and

00:50:08.240 too depressed and sad to put the effort in to brush your teeth, but you can put the effort in

00:50:15.080 to make a video and edit it and post it. Now, the comments are all raving about this. They call the

00:50:21.120 video beautiful and raw and vulnerable and important and amazing. The lady simply just announced that she 0.97

00:50:27.480 didn't brush her teeth in the morning and these people want to award her the medal of freedom for

00:50:31.840 it. And why? Well, because it validates their own laziness and recasts their own self-centered

00:50:37.060 disregard as somehow brave and empowered. So, let's consider a few points related to all this.

00:50:43.040 First, brush your teeth. That's disgusting. Second, anytime you put personal information on the 0.57

00:50:50.000 internet and demand not to be judged for it, you're lying because you do want to be judged. You

00:50:55.940 wouldn't publish it for the world to see if you didn't want the world to make a judgment about it.

00:50:59.860 If you really didn't want to be judged at all for the fact that you're practicing poor hygiene,

00:51:03.060 you just wouldn't tell anybody and nobody would know unless they end up stuck in an elevator next

00:51:07.280 to you. You take the time to record and publish the video because you want to hear the public's

00:51:12.140 opinion. It's just that you expect that the public will have a positive, affirming opinion.

00:51:16.640 That's what you're really asking for. It's not don't judge me. It's rather judge me in a nice

00:51:20.900 and encouraging way. But that demand is unfair and also impossible. I mean, once you tell me

00:51:26.300 something about yourself that I didn't ask for or want to know, you've given me information that my

00:51:32.420 mind will process however it wants to process it. That's not my fault. You can't give me unsolicited

00:51:37.440 information and also assign me an opinion that I'm supposed to have about that information. That's not

00:51:42.060 how it works. Second, you know, we've all had times when we feel especially down and completing normal

00:51:49.580 basic tasks feels like a huge burden. But those are precisely the times when it's most important

00:51:55.680 that you complete the tasks and you do the chores and you follow the routine. If you wake up feeling

00:52:01.160 extra depressed, you should be even putting even more effort into your mundane task. You should try

00:52:06.480 to look even sharper and more put together than usual. The point is not to suppress your feelings

00:52:12.060 exactly, but rather to refuse to become a slave to them. Fake it till you make it. It's one of the

00:52:17.500 most fundamental truths of human nature. It may not be a catch-all cure for depression. I'm not

00:52:21.260 saying that it is, but there are certainly worse treatment plans on the market. I'll tell you that

00:52:24.800 much. Now, if you allow your feelings to entirely dictate your behavior and you use them to justify

00:52:31.440 slacking off, not taking care of yourself, not taking care of your responsibilities, soon you'll be

00:52:36.780 caught in this self-defeating spiral that becomes harder and harder to escape from. Not brushing your

00:52:42.280 teeth in the morning is the first step towards that spiral, but it gets you closer to the spiral

00:52:46.900 than you might think. After all, brushing your teeth is a very low effort task that anyone can

00:52:52.460 complete. I don't care how depressed you are. You let your feelings justify skipping that step,

00:52:57.420 and soon they'll be justifying much more than that. Third point, finally. I get as annoyed as

00:53:04.540 anyone by the my life is perfect genre of social media posts, but I'll take that over the my life is a

00:53:10.860 mess genre any day. The former may be cherry-picked and largely fake, but at least it's aspirational.

00:53:18.400 You know, I'm never going to be somebody who drinks healthy green smoothies every morning or any

00:53:21.860 morning, but I'd rather hear about that than have you tell me about your diet that's even more 0.92

00:53:26.620 disgusting and lazier than my diet. There's a very dangerous inclination in all humans to take

00:53:32.380 comfort in the fact that other people have personal habits and engage in behaviors that are worse than

00:53:37.920 our own. That's why the my life is miserable genre is pretty popular. People are looking for ways to

00:53:43.820 rationalize their worst tendencies. They want to be able to point at somebody and say, man, I felt kind

00:53:49.980 of bad about myself, but it turns out that this person behaves the same way and even worse, actually,

00:53:53.540 so I guess I'm not so bad off. One of the most popular mental health slogans these days is,

00:54:00.280 that I'm sure you've heard before, is it's okay to be not okay. But I can't think of a worse

00:54:06.780 thing to say to someone who isn't okay. It's not okay to be not okay. That's why we call it not okay.

00:54:13.000 You might as well say it's happy to be sad or it's comfortable to be in pain.

00:54:17.380 You should try to be okay rather than not okay. You shouldn't simply resign yourself to being not

00:54:23.020 okay. You should aim up. This is one of the reasons why I despise all the efforts to so-called

00:54:28.520 normalize depression. The effect is that now it's become an identity. It's become a lifestyle

00:54:33.580 rather than something that you strive to overcome and conquer because nobody's aiming up anymore.

00:54:41.040 They keep their vision fixed parallel to the floor and they stay on whatever level they're

00:54:45.460 currently on or else they intentionally aim down. No, don't do that. Aim up. Put in the effort.

00:54:52.920 Try to be better. Help yourself. Brush your teeth.

00:54:56.660 That's my message to the depressed lawyer on TikTok. Also, as the segment unfortunately calls for,

00:55:03.700 I also have to say, you're canceled. We'll leave it there for today. Thanks for watching. Thanks

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