Ep. 957 -Â You Can't Make Me Care About Monkeypox
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The media has found a new virus to fear monger over, monkeypox, but the public health messaging around this disease has been a bit different from what we heard for COVID. Also, Nancy Pelosi is finally told that she has to stop receiving communion at church on account of her advocacy for baby butchery. A newly engaged AOC gives her thoughts on the life question, and her thoughts are as stupid as you ve come to expect.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, the media has found a new virus to fear monger over, monkeypox,
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but the public health messaging around this disease has been quite a bit different from
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what we heard for COVID. I'll explain why. Also, Nancy Pelosi is finally told that she has to
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stop receiving communion at church on account of her advocacy for baby butchery. A newly engaged
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AOC gives her thoughts on the life question, and her thoughts are as stupid as you've come to expect.
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A gender-affirming psychotherapist says that sex education in kindergarten is too late.
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It should really start at birth, she says. In our daily cancellation, a trans activist reacts to my
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what-is-a-woman trailer and is not too pleased, I can tell you. We'll talk about all that and more
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in the human population at any given time, many of them potentially fatal, and that doesn't include
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all of the other causes of contagious disease like bacterial infections and the other ailments
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that are not contagious but still deadly like cancers. So if for some reason you're looking for
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a reason to be paralyzed with fear and anxiety on a Monday, you could pick any of these illnesses at
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random and just obsess over them if you want to. Or you could wait for the media to select it for
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you. And if that's your strategy, then you have no doubt already updated your scary disease rankings,
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and you've taken COVID down a notch, and you've put monkeypox at the top. Monkeypox, by the way,
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got its name because it was first detected in a few monkeys back in the 70s. But monkeys are not
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a major carrier of the virus, according to Scientific American, and they didn't first jump
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into the human population from monkeys. Actually, rodents are probably the natural reservoir
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for the disease, which means by all rights it should be called ratpox, which makes it sound
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even scarier. So it's kind of a missed opportunity. I think rodentpox or ratpox. But in any case,
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ratpox, aka monkeypox, has become the disease du jour as the media attempts to stoke panic over the fact
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that a few dozen people in the world have been diagnosed with it in the last few days,
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and potentially as many as three, three, dear God, in the United States have been diagnosed
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with the disease or potentially have the disease. If you're wondering whether you have monkeypox
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right now, you should know that it first presents with flu-like symptoms, which is also how you know
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how COVID presents. So if you have a cough right now or a runny nose, just relax. It's probably not
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monkeypox. It's probably just COVID or, you know, any of the diseases of any of the dozens of other
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illnesses that cause these exact symptoms. It could be any of those. After about a week,
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the monkeypox victim will break out into rashes and lesions. And that's when, I think when that
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happens, like if you've had the cough for a week and then you have the lesions, then you can have
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your official, oh crap, this might be monkeypox moment. The good news is that the disease is not
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easily transmitted, which is why there was a, quote, outbreak in this country in 2003, and only 70
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people were infected. Nobody died. Now the media is telling us that the disease has a 10% mortality
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rate, which means that there should have been several deaths during the last outbreak. But what
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they forget to mention is that the mortality rate is based mostly on cases in Africa where people die
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of all kinds of diseases that kill almost nobody in the developed world. You may be wondering why you
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never heard of the great monkeypox outbreak of 2003. Probably because that was before social media
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and also before the news media decided that every scary sounding viral infection contracted by anyone
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anywhere in the world needs to be headline news. But does the fact that this virus is not very
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contagious and is not widely spread and is not nearly as lethal as they're making it sound,
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does that all mean that we should just ignore monkeypox and go about our lives? I mean, yes,
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it does mean that. That's actually basically what it means. Over the weekend, Joe Biden told Americans
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that they should be concerned about monkeypox. And that's this administration's only sales pitch,
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their only message about anything. They're just constantly telling us new things to be terrified
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of. Monkeypox, COVID, white supremacists, climate change, the great MAGA king, Donald Trump,
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et cetera, and so forth. Biden promised us a winter of death last winter because of COVID,
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COVID, which went into our spring of sorrow. And now we'll have our summer of suffering to be
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followed by the fall of fear. And this is all they want. They just want you to be twisting around
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endlessly in a spiral of fear. And you should not give them what they want. And yet, there is still
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something worth noticing, maybe, not about monkeypox itself, but about the monkeypox discourse,
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we'll call it. One of the reasons why, in fact, I'm not personally worried about this virus is that
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for this round of it anyway, it appears to be primarily spread through sexual contact.
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As the Sydney Morning Herald reports in their headlines, sexual form of monkeypox blamed for
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global spread of virus. I'm not personally worried about any STDs at all because I'm in a faithful and
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loving marriage with my wife. So score another point for faithful and loving marriages. That's
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not like the number one reason to get married, but it's a nice perk. All these diseases people are
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worried about, you don't have to worry about it. You're fine. This one in particular falls outside
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of my own lived experience because it seems to be primarily infecting gay men. The World Health
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Organization said as much in a statement on the virus. They said, based on currently available
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information, cases have mainly but not exclusively been identified amongst men who have sex with
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men. MSM is what they're calling them, which is also the acronym for mainstream media. So do with that
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what you will. With men having sex with men seeking care and primary care and sexual health clinics.
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That's from the World Health Organization. Health officials have determined that the likely super
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spreader event in this case was a gay pride festival in Spain earlier in the month. And the gay news
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site Pink News describes the gay pride event as actually a fetish festival. That's how they
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describe it. The article also notes that more cases are linked to a gay bathhouse in Spain or a sauna as
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it's euphemistically dubbed. So there's still plenty that's not known about this current outbreak,
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if we can call it an outbreak. But the link to gay sexual activity has been established well enough
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that organizations like WHO are reporting it. In fact, as GB News reports this morning,
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gay men in the UK may be offered a monkeypox vaccine first in a, quote, targeted rollout
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because of this connection that people are noticing. Apparently nine Brits have been diagnosed so far
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and all but three of them are gay. And this is certainly not the first time that viruses and
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other diseases have circulated through fetish festivals and bathhouses. A bathhouse is, after all,
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essentially a petri dish for disease. I mean, there really isn't any healthy or safe way to have sex
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with random strangers, as the STD epidemic in the U.S. clearly attests. Now, the good news
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is that there is a simple solution here, which would tamp down the monkeypox situation and also have the
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immense added benefit of preventing the spread of all kinds of other diseases, many of them much worse
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than monkeypox. And that is to refrain from having sex with strangers at a bathhouse or anywhere else
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and to forego trips to fetish festivals or any other event where, you know, large groups of
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naked or semi-naked people are swapping bodily fluids. Again, it would be best to avoid this kind
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of behavior in general, even if monkeypox didn't exist. So you would think that our public health
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authorities, especially because they're so apparently worried about monkeypox, you'd think
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they would spread this message far and wide. They would say, you know, don't, don't do these kinds
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of things. Don't participate in these kinds of activities. But they're not. Instead, rather than
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recommending that people make healthy choices to avoid spreading disease, our so-called public health
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authorities are more concerned with the spread of stigma in this case. It's stigma. Stigma is the real
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disease. So the Joint United Nations Program on HIV and AIDS has been releasing statements decrying the
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stigmatizing language related to monkeypox. And they're worried about reporting that might, quote,
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reinforce homophobic and racist stereotypes and exacerbate stigma. Andrew Lee, professor of public
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health at the University of Sheffield, just published an article cautioning against germ panic,
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okay, cautioning against germ panic, as he calls it, and warning that the real risk faced by gay men
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is unfair stigma. Then there's a professor who researches epidemiology at Yale, Greg Gonzalez,
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and he was more explicit in his messaging. He posted a lengthy thread to Twitter saying,
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and I'm going to read it here. He says, I'm not an expert on the pathogen, but right now,
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many of the cases are in gay men, and I know something about infectious diseases among men who
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have sex with men. First, it is not a gay disease. If you are saying it is, you are perpetuating stigma
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and ignorance, damaging the public health response to this and endangering lives. The disease spreads by
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close physical contact, and this is the setting in which most cases have been found in this global set
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of outbreaks, most likely disseminated via large social events. The answer isn't shut down all
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these parties, tell gay men to stop having sex at them, or dancing in close proximity to each other.
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It won't work. It hasn't worked for HIV or other kinds of infectious disease outbreaks among gay men.
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Ah, okay. Now, it should come as no surprise that Greg here was an outspoken advocate of COVID lockdowns
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and highly critical of anybody who protested them. So, according to Greg and many of his fellow public
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health experts, it would be onerous and unfair and unrealistic and oppressive and stigmatizing
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to tell gay men to refrain from having orgies at fetish festivals and bathhouses in order to avoid
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monkeypox and other diseases. Yet, it was perfectly reasonable to tell the entire world to shut down
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and to lock our kids in our homes for a year and to drastically alter every aspect of our lives
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for years in order to avoid COVID. Kids were never at any serious risk from COVID, nor were they ever
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very likely to transmit it, and we always knew that. And yet, we were told that it was good and necessary
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to put their lives on hold for this disease, like for our sake. But for gay men, we can't even tell
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them to put their fetish festivals on hold? It appears the only way to shut down the fetish festival
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is to shut down everything else in the world along with it. It's the only way you're doing it.
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And even then, as we've seen, that still isn't necessarily enough to cancel events that protected
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classes of people want to attend, which is why, as we know, the BLM riots were happening with the
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approval of all the public health experts at the height of COVID. So, really think about this for a
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second. Close the schools, don't close the bathhouses. That's the motto here. And I can think
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this from the Daily Wire. Here's some good news, a little bit of good news here. Daily Wire says,
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the Archbishop of San Francisco has informed Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi that she is not
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to receive Holy Communion at Mass over her repeated support of abortion. He says in a statement,
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in light of my responsibility as the Archbishop of San Francisco, I am hereby notifying you that
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you are not to present yourself for Holy Communion, and should you do so, you are not to be admitted to
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Holy Communion until such time as you publicly repudiate your advocacy for the legitimacy of abortion,
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and confess and receive absolution of this grave sin in the sacrament of penance.
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Pelosi still, as far as I know, has not, she didn't respond to the Daily Wire with a comment,
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obviously, but I don't think she's spoken about this publicly at all, because it puts her in a
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very difficult position, thankfully. And it's not that the Archbishop put her in a difficult position,
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she's put herself in this position by at once claiming she's a devout Catholic,
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but then also supporting abortion. So she's been in this position for decades,
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and it just took someone in the church in a position of authority to call her out on it,
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and finally somebody has. Continuing with the statement says,
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this fundamental moral truth has consequences, the fundamental truth about the dignity of life in the
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womb, this fundamental moral truth has consequences for Catholics and how they say they live their lives,
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especially those entrusted with promoting and protecting the public good of society.
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Pope St. John Paul II was also quite consistent in upholding this constant teaching of the church,
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and frequently reminded us that those who are directly involved in lawmaking bodies have a grave
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and clear obligation to oppose any law that attacks human life. And the full statement, it goes on
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longer than that, and it's worth going and looking up and reading it, because it's eloquently stated,
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and it also states what the Catholic position is here. And it's an example of courage,
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actual courage on the part of church leadership in the United States.
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And there has not been a whole lot of that in recent decades. So when you get an example of it,
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it's worth celebrating. Even if there's also, it's kind of a bittersweet celebration,
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because one of the reasons you're celebrating is that this is so rare.
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Like, Nancy Pelosi should have been publicly told years ago that she can't receive communion,
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and this should be every bishop in every diocese should be saying this
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to anyone in a public position who supports abortion.
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But of course, the media, they're not happy about this. There's an article in the San Francisco
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Examiner, which this is the argument they're putting forward. They're saying,
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in open defiance of Pope Francis, San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordigliani on Friday banned
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi from taking Holy Communion here in her home diocese, the reason,
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her strong support of women's abortion rights. His decree was guaranteed to provoke deep chagrin
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among San Francisco Catholics and non-Catholics alike. And then the article goes on to claim
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that this is in contradiction of Pope Francis. Another thing we're hearing from the media a lot,
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actually, is that the Archbishop in San Francisco is contradicting, is rebelling against Pope Francis,
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because Pope Francis has said, allegedly, that pro-abortion politicians should be able to receive
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the Eucharist. And that's not true at all. That's actually not what Pope Francis has said.
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And if he had said that, I'd be willing to admit it and call him out for it and denounce it,
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because Pope Francis has unfortunately said a lot of things that he shouldn't say and are not
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consistent with Catholic teaching, but that's not one of them. And also, it's funny to me when you
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see these leftists, many of whom are not Catholic, pretending to care about the hierarchy in the church,
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pretending to be offended that an Archbishop allegedly is contradicting Pope Francis.
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This is not the hierarchy. You should respect the Pope. Since when do you care about that?
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And by the way, if you do care about the hierarchical structure of the church and who has
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power to make what declarations, well, the Archbishop has the authority to do this.
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And so if you care so deeply about the hierarchy of the church,
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then what you should be saying to Nancy Pelosi is you should respect this because your Archbishop has
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said it. I also think it's funny in this article when they say it's provoked deep chagrin among
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Catholics and non-Catholics alike. First of all, let me say, if you're not a Catholic,
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your opinion about this is completely irrelevant. And the reason why it's irrelevant is because
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this is about the Catholic faith, the doctrines of the Catholic church.
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And a lot of this rests on, of course, the moral doctrines of the Catholic church,
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which are very clear on abortion and have always been. Like there's no debate about this. There
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never has been any debate about it. It is a moral teaching of the church that human life begins in
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the womb, that human life in the womb has intrinsic value and dignity. And to kill that life is a deep,
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grave, moral crime. Okay. So this is why it doesn't even make any sense to be a pro-abortion Catholic,
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because the only way to be a pro-abortion Catholic is to reject the moral authority of the church.
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There's no other way to do it. You can't cling on to your support for abortion while also clinging to
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the moral authority of the church. It's one or the other. These are mutually exclusive things here.
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And if you believe that the church doesn't have moral authority, well, fine, you're allowed to
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believe that, given that we don't actually live in a Catholic theocracy, even if it were otherwise,
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if I had to say it, but I don't, because my theocratic regime has not yet taken over.
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So we're not living in a theocracy. So you can have that opinion that the church doesn't have
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any moral authority, but then you can't be Catholic. Say, I'm a Catholic, but I don't believe that the
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church has any moral authority. So it was not instituted by Christ then, we must assume,
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or it was, but you don't think that Jesus Christ has moral authority. Like, how does this work? It's
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incoherent. So you give up the idea that the church has moral authority. You're giving up on the church,
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which again, you're allowed to do in America, but then don't go around claiming you're Catholic.
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It doesn't make any sense. Aside from the scandal and everything, the moral scandal involved in
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everything else is also just, it's illogically incoherent. And this is also why the opinion
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of non-Catholics about who receives communion is completely irrelevant, because the issue comes
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down to the moral teachings of the church, and also the doctrine of the real presence in the
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Eucharist. That Christ is really present in the Eucharist, and it's not a, that this is not a sort of
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symbolic gesture as they believe in many Protestant churches. So if you don't believe in either of those
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things, the real presence in the Eucharist or the moral authority of the church, then obviously
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you're not going to care who takes communion. And as far as you're concerned, anybody should be able
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to take it, because you don't share those beliefs. That's why this is a Catholic issue.
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And if you are Catholic, again, it does not make any sense
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to support abortion as a Catholic or to say that pro-abortion politicians should be able to receive
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the Eucharist. And the reason why you do this is because you want the Catholic church and the
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Catholic faith to work like you want everything else in life to work. You want it all to be sort of
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your plaything and everything to be relative to your own desires and feelings. You don't really
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want to be a Catholic. You want to have your, you've created your own religion, your religion of the
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self for yourself as a leftist. And, but you want to put a little bit of Catholic dressing over top of
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it. It's like you want to take the priestly robes and just kind of drape them over top your
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self-worshipping religion. Moving on, AOC also had some thoughts on abortion that she shared
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and not much more coherent than Nancy Pelosi's thoughts on the subject, but let's listen to that.
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For people who say, oh, but you're, you know, you're, you're harming a life. I believe this is life.
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Well, some religions don't. So how about that? Our Jewish brothers and sisters, they are able to have
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an abortion according to their faith. You know, there are so many faiths that do not have the
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same definition of life as fundamentalist Christians. And so we, how, what about their rights?
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What about their right to exercise their faith? It's ridiculous. And it is, it's, it is theocratic.
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Once again, what's the rule here that we've talked about is when religion is introduced to
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the topic of abortion, it's almost always a leftist introducing because that's what they
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want this to be. They want, they actually want this to be a religious conversation.
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And so her rebuttal to the claim that, that, that human life exists in the womb, her rebuttal
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is, well, other religions feel differently, which first of all, who cares? Got nothing to
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do with anything. You're the one trying to make this religious because you don't want to
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have this argument on any other grounds. You want to make it totally sort of act like it's
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completely subjective and it's all based on, you know, you want to make it all doctrinal,
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right? You want to make it nothing but doctrinal. Like we all have our competing doctrines and
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nobody really knows what's going on. There's no, there's no self-evident demonstrable reality
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at the center of it. That's how you want to, that's what you want to pretend, but there is
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because at the center of this discussion, there is an actual being in the womb that like exists.
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And so we can look there and say, well, what, well, what is that?
00:24:51.920
And the, what is that? And what you find is that when you're actually having the, what
00:24:54.620
is that conversation? It, it's not religious at all. There's no reason why it's religious.
00:25:01.680
It's actually a scientific, it's first and foremost, number one, actually a scientific
00:25:05.780
question. When you have a, a, a living being and we want to know, well, what, what, what
00:25:14.020
is that? That's, that's first and foremost, a scientific question.
00:25:19.920
And we know that it's a human because it has human parents.
00:25:24.200
And we know that it's living because it's growing and developing.
00:25:31.860
You know, a non-living inanimate object isn't, you could have this table here, right? And you
00:25:39.540
could just let the table sit, let it sit for hundreds of years and it'll decay. It'll fall
00:25:43.720
apart. It's not going to ever become anything that we would all recognize as a living thing.
00:25:51.640
You could even take it and chop it up and build it into something else. And it's still not going to
00:25:54.960
be a living thing. Um, so she wants to make it a, a religious conversation first of all. And then
00:26:02.700
she also, of course, misrepresents other religions. She just declares that, well, Jewish people all
00:26:08.820
support abortion. I don't know. You maybe check by, maybe ask that'll come as news to Ben Shapiro
00:26:16.820
because I know he doesn't support abortion as an Orthodox Jew. That's a, that's, that'll be
00:26:22.040
interesting news for him to learn from AOC, who's not Jewish. Do you know that this is what your
00:26:29.840
religion teaches? This is what non-religious people do. They do it to, they do it to Jews.
00:26:34.400
They do it to Catholics all the time. We just, we just heard it in that, uh, San Francisco Examiner
00:26:39.560
article. They're constantly telling us what we believe, even though they have no frame of reference,
00:26:46.980
they have no clue at all. All right. Uh, but we should say actually, uh, congratulations anyway
00:26:54.560
to AOC because she did just get engaged. I would be, uh, remiss if I didn't mention she did get,
00:26:59.640
she got engaged to her longtime boyfriend and, uh, she, uh, was bragging about the fact that she has a
00:27:04.240
zero emissions diamond that was given to her as her engagement ring because that's important to her.
00:27:10.380
And you know, she probably did ask that, like whatever the scenario was when, uh, Riley,
00:27:17.400
her boyfriend, I think that's his name, proposed, pulls the ring out before she even said yes. I
00:27:23.060
could totally imagine the first thing she asked, is that zero emissions? And then he said, uh, yeah.
00:27:30.880
Well, well then I, then yes, let's get married. Uh, and he, and, and, but his answer saying it's
00:27:35.800
zero emissions, of course, that doesn't mean anything because how can you have a zero emissions
00:27:40.960
diamond? What does that even mean? I assume what you're trying to say is that it was made like in a,
00:27:47.160
you know, it was manufactured like in a laboratory. They didn't dig it out of a, out of a mine.
00:27:52.080
And so you're saying it's, well, there's zero emissions. So you're saying that it was,
00:27:55.240
it was manufactured in a way that produces no emissions. It doesn't make any sense at all.
00:28:00.600
That's, I could tell you right now that's impossible. Okay. You cannot manufacture
00:28:06.260
anything in a way that doesn't produce emissions. Impossible. Anyway. All right. Uh, last week we
00:28:13.840
played some clips first shared and reported by Chris Ruffeau of a training session from the far
00:28:18.920
left LGBT extremist group, the Mazzoni Center. And if you remember, this was a conference attended by
00:28:23.840
Philadelphia teachers and also by kids and minors were attended, invited to attend this conference as
00:28:30.420
well. And there was a lot of depraved stuff. We don't have to go through all of it, but you can
00:28:35.300
go back and watch that show if you want to, some examples. Um, they had all kinds of, you know,
00:28:39.980
they had people presenting information about, uh, you know, sex toys and everything else like to
00:28:46.500
teachers for some reason. And now we have more footage. Um, this is from Rachel Simon. She's the
00:28:53.020
woman in the video. She's a trans affirming quote unquote psychoanalyst. And I want you to listen to
00:28:58.380
what she says. Listen, I am Rachel Simon. I use she, her pronouns. I am a psychotherapist,
00:29:07.060
educator, consultant, and author. Um, I run my private practice here in Philadelphia and I am
00:29:14.080
the author of the every body book, which is a, an LGBTQ inclusive, um, sex ed resource for seven to 12
00:29:22.900
year olds. I love that you said that this, this talk specifically was geared towards teens, but
00:29:28.660
you're so right that sexuality education starts the minute you're born. I mean, we have, we're born
00:29:34.220
with bodies. These bodies are cool. We want to touch our bodies. We're learning about, um, privacy and,
00:29:40.680
you know, being sexual and public from a very early age. Drop the cons of talking about sexuality with
00:29:47.280
parents and getting our sexual info from parents in the chat. Um, because we're getting some of that
00:29:53.500
embarrassment, awkwardness, those can be cons. They don't want to talk about it. Uh, homophobic and
00:30:01.920
transphobic ideas from parents can absolutely be a problem inescapable judgment. Yeah. Bigoted,
00:30:10.420
misinformed parents who have no idea how to talk about gay sex. They're biased if they are religious.
00:30:17.520
It can be very difficult to get into the conversation with them. Yeah. Sometimes you can
00:30:22.860
get stonewalled out of information. So psychotherapist there. Sorry, sorry. I misgendered her as a
00:30:30.240
psychoanalyst. She's a psychotherapist. And, uh, what's her message? Well, I don't bother talking to
00:30:34.640
your parents. You know, they're religious and bigoted. Don't, don't, don't bother talking to them.
00:30:39.460
Uh, but sexuality education begins at birth, she says.
00:30:47.280
Now I have to keep banging this drum here because it's important to point out where this stuff comes
00:30:52.540
from. And that is, and all of the sex ed stuff comes from Alfred Kinsey originally. And that is
00:30:58.580
Alfred Kinsey to a T that children are sexual from birth, literally from infancy. And as you're
00:31:07.600
familiar with, if you listen to the show, uh, and we've talked about before some of the horrific
00:31:11.320
details around that perverts life, uh, he, he actually tried to prove through sexual experiments
00:31:20.340
on, on young babies that babies are quote, sexual from birth. Um, and, uh, so sexual from birth,
00:31:28.960
we're going to do sexuality education for infants now, I guess. See, we're, we're all, we're, we're
00:31:37.120
behind the eight ball because we're sitting here saying, what do you mean? Sex education in
00:31:42.540
kindergarten? This is ridiculous. That's way too young. But what the left is saying is that, no,
00:31:47.120
that's too late. We talk about too young. If anything, like by kindergarten, they're five years
00:31:51.740
old. That's, that's, that's five prime years of sexualizing that they've missed out on. They're
00:31:58.360
telling us. And then she also says, she gets more and more disturbingly specific. She says that, uh,
00:32:06.820
from a very young age, we're learning about being sexual in public. That's what, what are you talking
00:32:14.560
about? But of course, nobody, these people that are always running unopposed as it were, and you're
00:32:21.120
only ever going to hear them talking into a camera on a, in a conference like this or on stage in
00:32:27.220
front of like-minded, a like-minded audience of degenerates and perverts. Um, they're never going
00:32:32.600
to put themselves in a position where there's going to be any follow-up questions. So they could just say
00:32:37.640
stuff like this and no, because if there was a follow-up question, then the follow-up would be what,
00:32:41.020
no, no, back up a second. Little kids being sexual in public. What the hell are you saying?
00:32:46.580
Explain that to me. Is that what you think? When you see kids out in public, that's what you think
00:32:53.160
they're doing? Go ahead, explain. And we know whatever the explanation is, it's not going to,
00:33:02.400
there's, there's, there's no way to make that any less depraved. And this again is, uh, this was a
00:33:09.680
training session, at least in part for teachers. This is what teachers are being told. All right.
00:33:18.760
The Daily Mail has this. The man who attacked Dave Chappelle on stage at a Los Angeles comedy show
00:33:23.320
earlier this month said he was triggered by the comedian's jokes about gay people and also about
00:33:29.200
homelessness. Uh, and he told Chappelle he should be more sensitive. Isaiah Lee was charged with four
00:33:35.620
misdemeanors after the May 3rd attack. Misdemeanors. Okay. Battery, possession of a weapon with intent to
00:33:41.520
assault, unauthorized access to stage area during a live performance and commission of an act that
00:33:45.720
delays the event or interferes with the performer. So battery and possession of a weapon with intent
00:33:51.100
to assault. That's the word. So those are good misdemeanors for this, for this guy. Um, he was
00:33:56.420
contacted by the New York post and he said that, uh, that he's, this is what he said. He said, quote,
00:34:00.700
I identify as bisexual and I wanted him to know what he said was triggering. I wanted him to know
00:34:06.840
that next time he should consider first running his material by people it could affect. Okay. So a
00:34:13.760
couple of things here. Now we, now we understand, um, why this guy got off with a misdemeanor when he
00:34:19.720
charged on stage during an event, assaulted somebody with a knife, with a knife that oddly enough he had
00:34:28.500
disguised as a gun. So we've already tried to figure that out. I don't know exactly how that,
00:34:32.560
that works. You know, um, he's like, you don't want security to know you have a knife. So instead
00:34:37.300
you just pretend you have a gun. I don't know, but he got through security anyway. And, uh, he was
00:34:42.320
charged with a misdemeanor and now we know why, because he's a member of a member of a protected
00:34:45.680
class. So he's a member of, you know, the group that even during a virus outbreak, you can't tell
00:34:53.120
him to not go to a, you know, a fetish festival or a bathhouse. Um, so that's, that's the first
00:34:59.400
thing. That's why, that's why that happened. Cause he's a member of the protected class.
00:35:03.100
And this is also more confirmation that all of this, you know, these attacks against Dave Chappelle
00:35:10.580
and in particular, it's not just like the criticizing Dave Chappelle leads to people trying to kill him
00:35:17.400
on stage. That's not the point that you could, you could criticize somebody without provoking anyone
00:35:22.360
else to attack them. But when you're claiming relentlessly that Dave, that words are violence
00:35:30.520
and that, and that just by saying words, Dave Chappelle could be hurting and potentially killing
00:35:36.360
people because that's what they say. Just with Dave Chappelle's jokes about trans people,
00:35:42.340
all of which are, are mild. Okay. Um, but those jokes could lead to death. It could be killing people.
00:35:49.660
So when you, when you say that enough about somebody, uh, then yeah. And then at the same,
00:35:58.900
and also you, you, you have these protected privileged classes of people who could basically
00:36:02.840
do whatever they want. Um, especially if they're acting out emotionally and they feel quote unquote
00:36:07.320
triggered, you put all that together, then you're creating, you know, that's, that's the recipe
00:36:13.180
for something like this. And of course the last little, uh, ingredient in the recipe is
00:36:22.520
Will Smith charging the stage and assaulting someone during the Oscars. And then a lot of
00:36:27.280
people on the left were making excuses for him and saying that at least, well, it's a, it's not
00:36:35.100
good, but it's not any worse than making a GI Jane joke about a bald woman.
00:36:38.840
So you add all those things together and, uh, this is what happens. Now it's interesting that the
00:36:46.120
assailant here says that he, he, the reason he did it is he wants Dave Chappelle to be too afraid
00:36:54.860
next time to make jokes like this. So that's also terrorism, by the way, trying to use fear to
00:36:59.760
manipulate people using fear to bring about a certain political or ideological end. That's,
00:37:04.620
that's terrorism. So this should be, he should be brought up, not on a misdemeanor, but on
00:37:08.520
terrorism charges. Like if you really cared about, about stopping this from happening in the future,
00:37:11.900
that's what you would do. But they don't want to stop this from happening in the future. They
00:37:16.960
agree with him. That's, that is the message to Dave Chappelle from his assailant and from the media
00:37:23.460
and the left as well. Oh, you didn't, you didn't like getting assaulted by a guy with a knife in the
00:37:28.120
middle of a performance. Well, just don't make jokes about us. That's all make jokes about
00:37:34.280
everybody else, but just not us because we're special. Finally, this is from the Jerusalem
00:37:39.340
Post. It says a scientist may have pinpointed the origin of the wow signal, the most famous alien
00:37:44.980
radio broadcast in history, making it an ideal candidate for future research and observations
00:37:49.800
in the search for extraterrestrial, terrestrial intelligence. The study, which was, um, polished in
00:37:55.680
the, I assume that's supposed to say published, was published in the peer review academic periodical,
00:38:01.040
the international journal of astrobiology suggests that the famous signal could very well have come
00:38:05.480
from a star located in the Sagittarius constellation that is similar to our own. Um, the wow signal is
00:38:11.360
easily the most famous and enduring extraterrestrial radio transmission to earth in history. This day,
00:38:15.660
it's the strongest candidate for a genuine radio transmission from an intelligent source.
00:38:19.340
The signal itself, and you know what? Nevermind because you guys don't care about this, do you?
00:38:25.020
Like I'm just sitting here reading this. Nobody cares. Nobody cares about the space and alien stuff.
00:38:30.800
It's just me. Why do I even bother? I'm going to go cry. I'm going to go lock myself in the bathroom
00:38:37.260
now and cry after the show, because we've got to get to our comment section right now.
00:38:52.720
Marley says, my brother's biology teacher is refusing to say male or female and instead describes
00:38:57.840
the body parts one has. My brother watches your show and emailed and spoke to the teacher about
00:39:02.740
how wrong it was. Thank you for being such a great role model. Well, thank you to your brother
00:39:07.700
because this is, it's really sad to put it, you know, lightly that, um, kids in school have to be
00:39:16.280
put in this position where they have to correct their biology teachers on basic human biology,
00:39:20.320
but that's exactly what needs to happen. And so, um, it's good that your, your brother did that.
00:39:26.600
And, uh, hopefully your parents are encouraging it. Cause I can tell you, even when I went to school,
00:39:29.780
going to public school and this was, this was, you know, public schools were bastions of sanity,
00:39:35.560
uh, when I went compared to now anyway, but even back then they were bad by their own standards.
00:39:41.780
And this is one thing that my parents used to tell me is like, respect your teachers. Okay.
00:39:46.940
Respect your elders. But if you're being lied to and they're saying things that are, that are not true
00:39:54.960
and they're lying to you, then you should speak up. And if you get in trouble at home, you will,
00:39:59.840
you know, if you get in trouble at school, you will not be in trouble at home for that.
00:40:03.880
So that's great from your brother. Donald says the Musk accusation isn't a she said,
00:40:09.820
she said situation. It's a, they said, she said, she said, she said. Yeah, you're right. Actually.
00:40:15.000
Well, it's, so it's, it's, we're being told by the media that they were told by a woman who was told
00:40:26.000
by another woman who claims that she was sexually harassed by Elon Musk. So yeah, there's like four
00:40:31.840
or five degrees of separation there. Um, Aaron says, Matt, I'm new to your show this week and finding
00:40:40.400
your logic and insight refreshing. I also recognize that the subject you dive into are extremely dark and
00:40:44.800
troubling to say the least without intending to sound cliche or silly. I will, I will purpose to
00:40:49.020
pray for your strength and peace. Thanks for your boldness to fight and inspiring others to take a
00:40:52.520
stand as we're intended to do. Well, I appreciate your prayers. I don't complain about it. I don't
00:40:56.020
mention this too much because I like, I don't, it's, it's, I don't want it to come off as overly
00:40:59.420
dramatic and without being traumatized, you know? Um, but in my own small little way, being totally
00:41:06.120
immersed in this kind of stuff every day does take a little bit of a toll on you. So I appreciate your
00:41:10.780
prayers and, you know, especially because I try to, I want to break up all of the deep, dark, depressing
00:41:17.540
stuff by talking about space and aliens, but I can't even do that because I get made fun of. So
00:41:23.280
that just makes the trauma even worse. Um, Samantha says, absolute fun sponges. Karen gene pair makes me
00:41:30.980
laugh out loud every time I hear it. Well, thank you, Smith. So you and I at least can have fun with that.
00:41:35.700
Um, and, uh, let's see. And finally, Tony says, can't help but notice Matt has gone quiet about
00:41:43.740
his interpretive dance promise. The numbers are almost there. I have a feeling after June 1st,
00:41:48.220
it will reach 1 million. I don't know what promise you're talking about. I don't remember. I've
00:41:53.620
because I had COVID. So that's, uh, it supposedly affects your memory, right? That's what it's all go
00:42:00.080
with that. I have long COVID. So I can't remember anything that I said prior to right now. So
00:42:06.580
unfortunately, if you follow the daily wire for any amount of time, you know, that we're fixated
00:42:11.360
on the truth, whether it's our journalists exposing the coverup of a sexual assault in
00:42:15.040
Virginia schools or hosts like myself, just trying to get a straight answer to a simple question.
00:42:18.300
Like what is a woman as I do in my documentary of that name out on June 1st. Well, over the last few
00:42:22.740
months, our very own Candace Owens has been digging into the $90 million bag of abject lies. That is
00:42:28.540
Black Lives Matter. And she's come up with her hands full. I can tell you that her daily wire
00:42:32.600
original, the greatest lie ever told George Floyd and the rise of BLM is on its way. And it's going
00:42:37.300
to be pure kryptonite. We had planned to release it this week, but as you can imagine, when you start
00:42:41.840
a documentary, you never fully know where the facts will lead. What Candace has uncovered on this
00:42:46.440
journey is going to blow some people's minds. So we're going to take some time to finalize the film
00:42:50.360
and make sure every last damning detail sees the light of day. Believe me, it'll be worth the wait.
00:42:58.540
Today, we have another case of a daily cancellation inception, where we respond to somebody responding
00:43:07.500
to me. In this case, it's Jamie Raines, who Wikipedia tells me is an English YouTuber with
00:43:12.620
over 900,000 subscribers, a research psychologist and LGBT advocate. Raines has a PhD in psychology
00:43:18.920
and has disturbingly, quote, conducted research into the sexual response of transgender men.
00:43:24.120
Raines is also a self-professed, quote-unquote, trans man. There have been many YouTube responses
00:43:30.860
to the trailer for my film, What is a Woman? Also many responses on other platforms, including on
00:43:35.540
Twitter, where the primary response from the left on Twitter has been to mass report it and try,
00:43:40.020
so far unsuccessfully, to get it pulled from the site. So I'm getting these email notifications about
00:43:45.040
reports, people reporting the trailer, you know, multiple times a day. But I'm choosing Raines to
00:43:51.320
respond to because this is a channel with more subscribers than I have and somebody with much
00:43:57.460
more formal education than I have. So nobody can accuse me of punching down. Not that there's
00:44:02.240
anything wrong with punching down, mind you. I'm a firm believer that one should punch in whichever
00:44:07.040
direction needs to be punched. But we'll focus here for now. The video is over 10 minutes long,
00:44:13.260
so we won't be able to pick it apart piece by piece. But we'll watch enough to get the point.
00:44:16.520
Surely, I mean, this PhD psychologist and LGBT activist will be able to swiftly debunk the
00:44:21.760
entire premise of my film and utterly humiliate me in the process. I'm just a transphobe with a
00:44:27.320
high school diploma after all. Shouldn't be much of a challenge. So we'll see how our friend Jamie
00:44:32.540
Raines does. It's called What is a Woman? from the Daily Wire, which I think I've heard of,
00:44:39.360
made by somebody or involving heavily somebody called Matt Walsh.
00:44:43.360
What is a woman? Immediately, is he wearing a sandwich board that says,
00:44:56.480
Well, you're at the Women's March. You must have some idea. Please, if one person could tell me
00:45:00.020
what a woman is. You are not here for women. We ask you to leave. What is that? What is that? Oh,
00:45:06.120
wow. So a dude going to a woman's march and going up to women and asking them to define what a woman
00:45:12.980
is. And probably acting like it's some big gotcha moment. Yeah, that's interesting. Oh,
00:45:18.720
let's not forget the sandwich board. I mean, what definition was he looking for? One based off of
00:45:23.280
genitals and reproductive organs? That's a little bit very narrow and not exactly great to boil people
00:45:28.680
down to their part. Okay. Well, first of all, Jamie, how do you know I'm a dude? I don't,
00:45:34.460
I didn't tell you that. That was not, that was not said. So where'd you get that from? And yeah,
00:45:40.060
it is a gotcha moment. In fact, if people are marching in a women's march and holding signs and
00:45:45.880
chanting slogans, claiming that women are under attack and being oppressed, and yet they have
00:45:49.520
absolutely no idea what a woman is and can't begin to define the term, then yes, that's a gotcha moment.
00:45:54.560
As it reveals the inherent absurdity and incoherence of their worldview. But it's not a
00:45:59.480
gotcha moment that I engineer. Okay. I'm not backing anybody into a corner. All I did was walk up to
00:46:07.380
them and ask them what the words they're using mean. That's a fair question. In fact, that's the
00:46:12.520
fairest question you can ever ask anyone is when they're using words to say, well, what do you mean
00:46:17.260
by that? How could that be an unfair question? If it becomes a gotcha moment for you that only shows
00:46:22.780
just how totally vapid and ridiculous your ideology is. As for what kind of definition I'm
00:46:27.140
looking for, well, to start with, I'd like a definition, some kind of definition. Let's just
00:46:32.480
get a definition on the table first, and then we can debate whether it's the right or wrong one.
00:46:36.720
But you guys won't put any definition at all on the table. You act like the word has no meaning at all,
00:46:42.720
like it's just a bunch of arbitrary gibberish, and yet you continue to use the word,
00:46:46.700
and you expect us all to know what it means or to know what you mean when you use it. So, again,
00:46:54.200
is it a gotcha? Yes, it certainly is. But I didn't get you. You got yourself.
00:47:06.040
I'm a husband. I'm a father for, I host a talk show, I give speeches, I write books. I like to
00:47:11.640
make sense of things. A woman is not anything in particular. There is not one particular thing.
00:47:16.160
It could be many things to many people. Some women have penises, right? Some men have vaginas.
00:47:20.880
I like scented candles. I've watched Sex and the City. Yeah. How do I know if I'm a woman?
00:47:25.140
Oh, dear God. What is he doing? Why is he making this? Do you just show a compilation of people
00:47:30.040
saying it can't be boiled down to one thing? Some women do have penises, like trans women. Some men
00:47:35.260
do have vaginas, like some trans men. And your response is, I like scented candles. Is that what
00:47:41.120
makes a woman? I don't know. Does it? I mean, you tell me. Because a second ago, you said that a
00:47:47.640
woman can't be defined by her parts. Now you're saying that having an interest in feminine things
00:47:52.260
also doesn't make you a woman. So what does, Jamie? You've declared that neither interests
00:47:58.300
nor body parts define a woman, which would seem to indicate that you have a solid idea in your head
00:48:03.380
as to what does define a woman, and yet you have yet to provide that definition. What if I decide
00:48:08.880
that my love of scented candles makes me a woman? After all, I'm not just talking about the manly scents,
00:48:13.600
okay? Like leather or bonfire or something. I can go with a lavender candle, okay? That's how
00:48:21.840
girly the candles can get sometimes. And if I say that makes me a woman, who are you to say that I'm
00:48:27.900
wrong? You can only dismiss my scented candle-based definition if you have some other objective
00:48:34.000
definition in mind. But if you don't, if you have no idea what a woman is, then for all you know,
00:48:39.920
no, a woman is truly just anyone who's purchased a scented candle at any point in their life.
00:48:45.120
That definition is at least better than the definition you're offering, because you aren't
00:48:49.320
offering any. You're not a scientist. You're not a gender studies major. No. How do you know
00:48:55.360
that you're a man? I guess because I got a dick.
00:49:00.740
A journey to discover the truth. The truth about what?
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The truth about what a woman is. It's right there in the title. How are you confused already?
00:49:10.100
That's what this is about. Try to keep up, Jamie.
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I'm not a woman, so I can't really answer that.
00:49:24.560
Can a man become a woman? That's a silly question, because trans women are not men
00:49:29.360
who become women. They are women who happen to be trans. Just like trans men are not women who
00:49:35.640
become men. We're men who happen to be trans. At least ask the right question.
00:49:41.720
Well, this is shocking. I'm appalled. Jamie, are you suggesting that gender is not fluid?
00:49:50.160
Like, 90% of people on TikTok identify as gender fluid. Do they not exist? Does TikTok not exist?
00:49:56.040
Are you saying their identities are not valid? Are you marginalizing gender fluid people?
00:50:01.280
Because, in fact, according to your worldview, a man can absolutely become a woman. An individual
00:50:06.580
could identify as a man one day and a woman the next. So, in fact, an individual could identify
00:50:12.820
as a man one minute and a woman the next. And each of those identities are valid and true,
00:50:17.820
right? Isn't that what you think? If you are whatever you identify as, and you identify as a woman after
00:50:23.600
having identified as a man, that would mean that you became a woman. You were one thing,
00:50:29.140
and now you're another. So, you became the other. Unless gender fluidity is false. Is that what you
00:50:37.820
believe? You're a fluid phobe? Duly noted, Jamie.
00:50:41.600
Are you a cat? No. Can you tell me what a cat is?
00:50:49.560
Ah, yes. I mean, I don't know if this is lovely editing or if this is actually how it went down,
00:50:54.360
but ask somebody to define an animal. Yeah, that really makes sense. Asking someone to define an
00:51:00.540
animal that has nothing to do with the human concept and language of gender and sex is really
00:51:06.400
not the clever move he thinks it is. I could bring up the example when a well-known transphobe tried to
00:51:11.100
define a chair, and then multiple people pointed out to him that that definition could also work
00:51:17.000
for horses. So, well done. A horse is now a chair, apparently.
00:51:21.680
No, see, you're confused again. The point of the cat question was not to quiz that person about the
00:51:27.080
definition of a cat. The point was to respond to the claim that only women can know what women are.
00:51:33.800
And first of all, as I discovered at the Women's March, that's not true because lots of women don't
00:51:37.500
know what women are. And second, you can absolutely know what something is without being that thing.
00:51:43.660
Everybody knows what a cat is, and yet none of us are cats. I also know what a Chinese person is,
00:51:49.660
despite not being Chinese. I know what planets and sandwiches and mice and trees and Mark Wahlberg is,
00:51:55.180
despite the fact that I'm not any of those things. I even know what a chair is. That's not a hard
00:51:59.560
question. That's a seat built for one person, usually with four legs and a back. There you go.
00:52:04.880
That's a chair. That definition would not apply to horses because horses aren't built. Okay? Let's
00:52:10.380
keep going. I'm a biological woman that medically transitioned to appear like a male. I will never
00:52:17.520
be a man. Oh, no. No, do not agree with that. 99.99999% of trans men will very strongly disagree
00:52:29.880
with that statement. Don't know if that person actually identifies as a trans man. By the sounds
00:52:35.240
of it, they are assigned female at birth and transitioned in the sense of taking testosterone
00:52:38.920
and living within society as a man. But yes, sure, for the purposes of your seemingly transphobic
00:52:45.440
documentary, go and find one of the very, very few trans people who holds these kind of gender
00:52:52.520
critical, transphobic views on trans people and include them. Ignore the many thousands and the
00:52:59.640
vast, vast majority of trans people who will very strongly disagree with this very, very small number
00:53:05.140
of trans people who will say things like this. But who cares if Scott Nugent's views are in the
00:53:10.000
minority among trans people? Trans people are in the minority among the general population.
00:53:15.060
If you can dismiss Scott for being in the minority, then can't I dismiss you for being
00:53:21.940
in the minority? Also, I did not ignore other trans people. We talked to lots of trans people
00:53:26.700
in the film, some of whom you've already seen in the trailer, despite claiming that we ignored
00:53:30.200
them. We tried to speak to many more trans people, but they refused to speak to us. And this is a pretty
00:53:34.600
common phenomenon, right? Trans activists claim that nobody will talk to us. Oh, why don't you talk
00:53:39.500
to us? And yet when I try to talk to them, they literally run away. I mean, literally get up and
00:53:45.540
run away in some cases. Okay. Jumping ahead now, we get to the part of the trailer where I'm talking
00:53:49.540
to a gender affirming pediatrician about the quote unquote gender affirming about the chemical
00:53:54.680
castration drugs she gives to kids. Well, I say I'm talking to her about it, but it's more accurate
00:53:58.840
to say that I tried to talk to her about it. She threatened to storm out of the interview. And
00:54:01.880
as soon as I correctly noted that the puberty blocker Lupron is used to chemically castrate
00:54:06.000
pedophiles. And then that's what brings us to what Jamie has to say about all this. Let's listen.
00:54:12.080
Puberty blockers have actually been used in cis kids with precocious puberty for a very long time,
00:54:18.020
decades as well, decades. Precocious puberty being when puberty starts too early. So they use puberty
00:54:23.060
blockers to hold it off a bit till the child is a more appropriate age. There has never been a fuss
00:54:28.820
over cis kids with early puberty having access to puberty blockers in the same way that there has been a
00:54:34.940
fuss over trans kids. They're the same drugs. They're used in the same way to hold off puberty
00:54:38.640
until a child is ready to go through puberty. No one ever gave a s*** about puberty blockers
00:54:43.240
until it became widely known that they were used to help trans kids.
00:54:47.520
Okay, Jamie, lean in close here so you can hear this. I want you to hear it. But pay close attention.
00:54:53.040
Precocious puberty is a physical condition. It's an ailment often caused by tumors on the ovaries or
00:54:59.380
adrenal glands or by problems with the nervous system or genetic syndromes. Precocious puberty happens when a
00:55:04.560
child's body is doing what it is not supposed to do naturally. That's why we call it precocious,
00:55:11.000
meaning it's happening earlier than it's supposed to. There are also direct physical consequences to not
00:55:16.160
treating precocious puberty, such as the potential for stunted growth and other problems. But puberty
00:55:20.220
blockers for, quote, trans kids are used to treat, quote-unquote, puberty that is not precocious.
00:55:26.080
There's no physical problem. Puberty is happening exactly when it's supposed to. So on the one hand,
00:55:31.320
we have puberty blockers used to treat early puberty in children with a physical health condition.
00:55:36.140
On the other, we have puberty blockers used to stave off normal puberty in children with no relevant
00:55:40.740
physical health condition. It's very similar to the difference between top surgery for physically healthy
00:55:46.280
girls and a double mastectomy for someone with breast cancer. And you don't see a difference in these
00:55:51.760
two scenarios. The difference is that they are literally opposites of each other. That's the
00:55:57.080
difference. I know it might be a little too subtle for you PhDs, not the most perceptive bunch I've
00:56:02.420
learned. Is it transphobic to tell the truth? The interview's over. Let's try off the cameras.
00:56:09.400
Excuse me. I just wanted to know, what is a woman? And you're not going to find out. Based on what I'm
00:56:13.640
saying, would you ever want to move to America? They say no, never. Oh my God. Oh my God. Honestly,
00:56:31.680
that felt like a hot mess and was just filled with all of the transphobic dog whistles and transphobia
00:56:37.640
that was thinly veiled as caring about children. Truth is, these people, the people with these views
00:56:43.040
and the transphobic views and making films like this will not have had any concern for the cis kids
00:56:48.060
receiving the exact same treatment. And I'm not saying they should have. What I'm pointing out is
00:56:52.100
that they all of a sudden have concern and are pouring money and resources into making stuff like
00:56:57.880
this to just on an incredibly discriminated against community within society. Why? It doesn't make sense
00:57:05.120
to me. There's just a lot of fear mongering going around. There's a lot of misinformation. There's a lot
00:57:09.020
of half-truths. There's a lot of dog whistles. And there's a lot of people buying into it. When in
00:57:13.680
reality, trans people, we just want to live our lives. Okay. Trans kids deserve access to trans-affirming
00:57:21.040
healthcare, which again, just reminding you, a majority of which is purely just social. And then
00:57:27.140
the other little bit is puberty blockers. So lots of parts through here, but I couldn't help but
00:57:33.660
note, Jamie, that you never said anything specifically about the African tribe. I mean,
00:57:38.560
they were literally laughing at the very idea of transgenderism. And they had a lot more to say,
00:57:43.960
which you'll see in the film when it comes out on June 1st. But you seem to let them off the hook.
00:57:47.840
You called Scott Nugent a transphobe and me a transphobe, but you seem somehow reluctant to call
00:57:52.160
out the bigotry of that group of Africans that I spoke to. Which is kind of interesting.
00:57:56.660
Hmm. As for your claim at the end that most trans-affirming healthcare, quote unquote,
00:58:01.860
for kids is social and the rest is puberty blockers, well, you're lying. As you know,
00:58:07.160
kids are getting surgery as young as 14 or even younger potentially. They're chopping the breasts
00:58:12.020
off of minors. That's part of the trans-affirming healthcare that you seem to want to skate around.
00:58:18.200
The puberty blockers we've already covered, they're not reversible, they're not safe. And these are
00:58:21.720
indeed the exact same drugs they use to chemically castrate convicted pedophiles.
00:58:25.140
The social transition that you talk about is designed to, and almost always has the effect
00:58:30.200
of, putting kids on the path to medical transition a little further down the line, as you also know.
00:58:35.260
So the distinction between social and medical transition for kids is misleading at best.
00:58:39.780
But no surprise there, as a trans activist, misleading people is what you do best.
00:58:44.520
Speaking of which, I noticed something else, Jamie. You just gave a whole 10-minute response,
00:58:48.840
and yet you never did actually respond to the question. Kind of curious. Your response could
00:58:54.180
have been 15 seconds. You could have invalidated and debunked the whole film, humiliated me,
00:58:59.480
and scored a major victory against transphobia simply by providing a definition of woman that's
00:59:04.060
coherent and consistent with gender ideology. But you didn't. Is that because you're polite?
00:59:10.280
So polite that you'll repeatedly accuse me of bigotry and call the film a hot mess,
00:59:14.080
but not provide the one thing that would actually debunk the central premise of the film?
00:59:18.260
Is it politeness, or are you sitting on a gigantic house of cards, and you know it,
00:59:25.120
and you know I know it, but you don't want anyone else to know it?
00:59:29.440
Well, I guess that's just another question that I'm asking, even though I already know the answer.
00:59:34.720
And that's why you're canceled. And that'll do it for us today.
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